Laura A. Cisneros

• BA, University of San Diego
• JD, Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
• LLM, University of Wisconsin Law School

• Constitutional Law
• Supreme Court
• Language and the Law

• Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award, American Association of Law Schools (for a junior faculty member whose paper makes a substantial contribution to legal literature), January 2009
• William H. Hastie Fellow, University of Wisconsin Law School
• Member, California State Bar

• The Constitutional Interpretation/Construction Distinction: A Useful Fiction, 27 Const. Commentary 71 (2010).
• The Use and Abuse of Youngstown Sheet's Central Myth: The "Zone of Twilight" and the Creation of an Area of Nonjusticiability, (in progress).
• The Constitutional Interpretation/Construction Debate: A Useful Fiction, _ Const. Comment. _ (forthcoming 2010).
• Standing Doctrine, Judicial Technique, and the Gradual Shift From Rights-Based Constitutionalism to Executive-Centered Constitutionalism, 59 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1089 (2009).
• Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain - Restricting Access to US Courts Under the Federal Tort Claims Act and the Alien Tort Statute: Reversing the Trend, 6 Loy. J. Pub. Interest L. 81 (2004).

• Constitutional Law
• Federal Courts