Visiting Assistant Professor

Professor Hoyos is a Ph.D. Candidate in American History at the University of Chicago. He earned his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 2001, where he was the Special Sections Editor for the/ /Law Review/. /After law school, he practiced law briefly at Rosen, Bien & Asaro, a small civil rights firm in San Francisco that specializes in prisoner rights and attorneys' fees litigation.

Professor Hoyos' research interests lay in public law and legal and constitutional history. He is particularly interested in institutional approaches to law, which seek to understand the legal, political, and intellectual structures in which legal decisions are made. Currently, he is completing his dissertation, "In Convention Assembled: Constitutional
Conventions, Law, and Democracy in 19th Century America," which explores the role, jurisdiction, and authority of constitutional conventions within the larger American constitutional structure.