Ilan Wurman

Wurman graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 2009 with a major in government and physics, and from Stanford Law School in 2013. While at Stanford, he served as the senior articles editor of the Stanford Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and practiced law at Winston & Strawn in Washington, D.C. before entering academia. ==Academic career==

Wurman taught at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he taught administrative law and constitutional law. In 2024, he joined the University of Minnesota Law School as an associate professor of law with tenure. ==Scholarship==

Wurman's scholarship focuses on administrative law, constitutional law, originalism, separation of powers, and the Fourteenth Amendment. In The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (2020), he examined the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process, Equal Protection, and Privileges or Immunities Clauses. In 2021, The Second Founding was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. In 2026, SCOTUSblog highlighted Wurman's amicus brief in Trump v. Barbara as one of the briefs supporting the Trump administration's position in the case, and Reuters quoted him before oral argument on the scope of birthright citizenship. Wurman also testified before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary at a hearing titled Protecting American Citizenship: Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens and Tourists, alongside Charles J. Cooper, Amanda Frost, Alejandro Barranco, and Peter Schweizer. The federal government cited Wurman's article Jurisdiction and Citizenship in its merits brief and reply brief in Trump v. Barbara. During oral arguments, Solicitor General D. John Sauer referred the justices to Wurman's amicus brief. Wurman's birthright-citizenship arguments drew criticism from legal commentators and scholars. In Lawfare, Chris Mirasola argued that Barnett and Wurman invoked a "nonexistent 'puzzle'" of international law to support their theory. In Just Security, Marty Lederman and David J. Bier described their defense of Trump's executive order as "fundamentally flawed". A 2025 Cornell Law Review Online essay by Anthony M. Kreis, Evan D. Bernick, and Paul A. Gowder characterized the position as an "ahistorical, revisionist interpretation" of the Citizenship Clause. ==Selected works==

• A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge University Press, 2017) • The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge University Press, 2020) • Administrative Law Theory and Fundamentals: An Integrated Approach (Foundation Press, 2021; 3rd ed. 2025) • Jurisdiction and Citizenship (2026) ==References==