Professor of law
and Herbert Hannoch Scholar (civil procedure; torts; legislation and statutory interpretation)
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 & 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,
direct democracy, popular sovereignty, federalism, and methods for
mediating conflict between legal norms. His most recent 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) and
"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).
