Olatunde Johnson is the Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 Professor of Law at Columbia Law School where she teaches, writes, and provides public commentary about antidiscrimination law, courts, administrative law, constitutional law, and democracy. She is currently writing a book on the 14th Amendment. She directs Columbia University’s Constitutional Democracy Initiative and codirects the Center on Constitutional Governance at Columbia Law School. In 2021, she served on the White House Commission on the Supreme Court. Prior to academia, Johnson served as constitutional and civil rights counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee and as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Her recent writings include “Campus Crises and the Limits of Title VI” (2026), “United States v. Skrmetti: L’identité de genre dans le droit et la politique de l égale protection” (2026), “The Missing Half: Revisiting Monetary Remedies to Redress Segregation” (2024), “The Remedial Rationale After SSFA” (2024), and “Political Equality, Gender, and Democratic Legitimation in Dobbs” (2023). Johnson graduated from Yale University and Stanford Law School. She clerked for Judge David Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court.