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William Kamin

William Kamin

Associate Professor of Law

Office: 3118 Eck Hall of Law
Email: wkamin@nd.edu
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William M. M. Kamin is Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School. He joined Notre Dame’s regular faculty in 2026 after spending the 2025-2026 academic year as a visitor from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, whose faculty he joined in 2023.

Kamin teaches and writes in the areas of habeas corpus, federal courts, civil procedure, legal history, and legal philosophy. His scholarship on habeas corpus has been published or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the UC Davis Law Review. During his time at Catholic Law, he received numerous awards for both his teaching and his research.

Prior to entering academia, Kamin served as a law clerk to Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Amherst College.

Courses Taught

Federal Courts
Civil Procedure
Historiography and Habeas

Scholarship

The Writ to Know, 175 University of Pennsylvania Law Review __ (forthcoming 2027)

A More Luminous Beacon, 59 UC Davis Law Review 1 (2025)

  • Cited in Low & Jeffries' Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (11th ed. 2026)

The Great Writ of Popular Sovereignty, 77 Stanford Law Review 297 (2025)