Riley T. Keenan

Riley Keenan teaches and writes in the fields of federal courts and constitutional law. His scholarship examines the procedural and remedial aspects of constitutional litigation, including the role of courts in enforcing individual rights and structural constitutional principles. Riley's work has appeared or will appear in the Minnesota Law Review, the Alabama Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and the Cornell Law Review. His work has also been cited in leading casebooks on constitutional law and civil procedure.

Previously, Riley was a visiting assistant professor at Cornell Law School, where he taught a civil procedure course. He was also an associate in the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. Riley clerked for Judge Carlos T. Bea of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Riley earned his J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he graduated summa cum laude and first in his class.