Carlos Gonzalez practiced litigation and employment law at Orrick,
Herrington and Sutcliffe in San Francisco before joining Rutgers in
1997. His research interests include statutory interpretation, direct
democracy, popular sovereignty, federalism, and methods for mediating
conflict between legal norms.
Professor González earned his B.A. in political science with high
distinction from the University of Michigan, and his J.D. from Yale Law
School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.
After graduation from law school, he earned an M.A. in political science
from Stanford University, and practiced litigation and employment law
at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe in San Francisco. He joined the
Rutgers faculty in 1997 and became a full professor in 2005.
Professor González's current research interests include statutory
interpretation, Article I legislative powers, federalism, and methods
for mediating conflict between legal norms. His publications include "Trumps,
Inversions, Balancing, Presumptions, Institution Prompting, and
Interpretive Canons: New Ways for Adjudicating Conflicts Between Legal
Norms" in the Santa Clara Review (2005), "Representing
Structures Through Which We The People Ratify Constitutions: The
Troubling Original Understanding of the Constitution's Ratification
Clauses" in the UC Davis Law Review (2005), and "Turning
Unambiguous Statutory Materials into Ambiguous Statutes: Ordering
Principles, Avoidance, and Transparent Justification in Cases of
Interpretive Choice" in the Duke Law Journal (2011).
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