Wilfred Codrington is the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law and codirector of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is a frequent commentator on issues such as voting and elections, constitutional reform, antidiscrimination, and the rule of law. Codrington has authored reports, scholarly articles, and opinion pieces in outlets such as the Atlantic, American Prospect, Columbia Law Review Forum, Slate, the Hill, U.S. News & World Report, and Ms. magazine. He is the coauthor of The People’s Constitution (The New Press, 2021).
Codrington was previously the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Fellow in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program. He also taught as an adjunct assistant professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. As an associate attorney in the New York offices of the global law firm DLA Piper, he focused on commercial litigation, government investigations and white-collar defense, and administrative law and regulatory policy while maintaining an active pro bono caseload. He served as a law clerk to Judge Deborah A. Batts of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; legislative assistant and counsel to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia; and a fellow and staff attorney at the Campaign Legal Center.
Codrington earned his BA in philosophy from Brown University with honors, an MPA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a JD from Stanford Law School.
Codrington is admitted to practice law in New York, Massachusetts (inactive), and the District of Columbia (inactive), as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
