Ilan Wurman is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches administrative law and constitutional law, and he previously taught at Arizona State University. He writes primarily on the Fourteenth Amendment, administrative law, separation of powers, and constitutionalism, and is the author of numerous law journal articles and an administrative law casebook. He is also the author of A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge 2017), and The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge 2020). His next book, The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

Professor Wurman also practices law with the firm Tully Bailey. He has litigated a variety of administrative law and constitutional law cases, including cases involving Covid-19 restrictions, transmission lines, and Appointments Clause challenges. He also devised winning public nuisance theories to force city governments to address the increasingly challenging public camping crises throughout the country. At the Manhattan Institute, he works on the related issues of homelessness, public camping, public order, and social contract theory.