Professor Nahmod is a well-known expert on constitutional law, civil rights and the
law of Section 1983. He is the author of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Litigation: The
Law of Section 1983 (4th ed. 1997, updated annually); A Section 1983 Civil Rights
Anthology (1993); a casebook, Constitutional Torts (2d ed. 2004, with Wells and Eaton);
and numerous law review articles. He has argued civil rights cases in the U.S. Supreme
Court and many other federal courts. In addition, he lectures regularly on civil rights
matters to federal judges and attorneys throughout the country. He also lectures to lay
groups on constitutional law.
Professor Nahmod graduated from the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. He
practiced with a corporate law firm and was a legal services staff attorney before
entering academia. He also was a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School, where he earned
an LL.M. After joining Chicago-Kent, he served as associate dean for three years, and was
named IIT Distinguished Professor in 1992.
Professor Nahmod has served as chair of the Section of Civil Rights and the Section on
Law and Religion of the Association of American Law Schools. In addition, he received a
Master in Religious Studies degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School in June
1996. In 2001, he received the Jefferson Fordham Lifetime Achievement Award for his work
in section 1983 jurisprudence from the American Bar Association's section on State
and Local Government Law. He founded and co-directs the Institute for Law and the
Humanities.
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