Biography
Professor Robinson joined the faculty of Marquette University Law School in 2024. Her primary scholarly interests are in the fields of constitutional law (specifically constitutional rights), constitutional design, judicial politics, and empirical legal studies. Her scholarship has appeared in Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Cornell Law Review, American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Law and Courts, Emory Law Journal, and Iowa Law Review, amongst others. Her work has been cited and discussed in several media outlets, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, CNN, and Slate.
Prior to joining the Marquette Law School faculty, Professor Robinson was a Professor at the Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences, where she held numerous grants supporting the study of comparative judicial behavior. From 2009 to 2020, Professor Robinson was a Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, where she taught Constitutional Law, First Amendment, and Torts. Before joining DePaul, she clerked for Judge Diane P. Wood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Justice Margaret A. Stone on the Federal Court of Australia.
Professor Robinson holds a JD (with High Honors and Order of the Coif) and a JSD from the University of Chicago Law School, as well as an LLB (with First Class Honors and the University Medal), and a BA from the Australian National University, and a BMus from Griffith University.
Selected Recent Publications
Influencer Speech-Torts (with Leah Fowler and Max Helveston) 113 Georgetown Law Journal __ (forthcoming, 2024)
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia (with Tonja Jacobi and Patrick Leslie) 71 American Journal of Comparative Law 568 (2024) [SSRN]
The Law Enforcement Lobby (with Stephen Rushin) 107 Minnesota Law Review 1965 (2023) [SSRN]
State Constitutionalism and Excessive Punishment (with Rob Smith and Emily Hughes) 108 Iowa Law Review 537 (2023) [SSRN]
Judicial Ideology in the Absence of Rights (with Patrick Leslie and Jill Sheppard), 10 Journal of Law and Courts 239 (2022) [SSRN]