Biography
Collins was born in Santa Monica, California in 1949. graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a B.A. degree. He received a J.D. degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. After graduating from law school, he worked as a law clerk to Hans A. Linde on the Oregon Supreme Court and was a judicial fellow under Chief Justice Warren Burger. [7] He is the recipient of Supreme Court Fellows Alumni Association’s Administration of Justice Award for legal scholarship (February 2011).
After teaching at Syracuse Law School and George Washington Law School, he was a scholar at the Newseum's First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C. for six years. Thereafter, he was the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law. [8]
In 2011, Collins became the book editor for SCOTUSblog. He has written, edited and co-authored (with David Skover) books related to law, freedom of speech and justice in the United States. These include A Declaration of Duties Toward Humankind: A Critical Companion to Simone Weil's The Need for Roots (co-edited with Eric Springsted) [9] and Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial, [10]
Collins was selected as a Norman Mailer Fellow in fiction writing with a residence in Provincetown (Winter 2010).
He has written scholarly articles for Harvard Law Review , Stanford Law Review , University of Chicago Law Review , Supreme Court Review , and Michigan Law Review , among other publications. His popular press articles or reviews have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , Chicago Tribune , The Baltimore Sun , The Forward , and The Nation .
In 2025, he launched (with Paul Sparrow) The Singer-Songwriter Series.
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