William M. M. Kamin is Assistant Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, where he also serves as Managing Director of the Law School’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Professor Kamin joined the Catholic Law faculty in 2023 after serving as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Richard J. Sullivan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and to the Hon. Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He currently teaches civil procedure and criminal law; in future semesters, he plans to teach federal courts, habeas corpus, and the history of the common law. He has previously taught courses at Yale Law School and guest-co-taught a course at Columbia Law School.

Professor Kamin’s scholarship focuses on how the the historical development of the writ of habeas corpus in early-modern England bears upon contemporary American habeas jurisprudence. His first law-review article, “The Great Writ of Popular Sovereignty,” will be published in the Stanford Law Review in 2025. He also writes in the areas of federal jurisdiction, land-use regulation, and law and religion. Professor Kamin has presented or is scheduled to present his scholarship at the ABA-AALS Criminal Justice Roundtable, the Federalist Society Junior Scholars’ Colloquium, the American Enterprise Institute, Villanova University, and New York University.

In the 2023–2024 academic year, his first on the Catholic Law faculty, Professor Kamin was recognized with the Student Bar Association’s Award for Most Supportive Professor and the Dean’s Research Award.

Professor Kamin received his J.D. in 2020 from Yale Law School, where he served as an Editor on the Yale Journal on Regulation. He received his B.A. in 2015 from Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded the Densmore Berry Collins Prize in Political Science and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship.