Professor Richard L. Aynes' article, On Misreading John Bingham and the Fourteenth Amendment, 103 Yale Law Journal 57 (1993), was cited yesterday by the Supreme Court in its opinion in the case of McDonald v. Chicago. Aynes has published and lectured extensively about the adoption and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. His research has focused primarily on the work of John Bingham, an Ohio Congressman who played a leading role in the drafting of that Amendment. In the Yale Law Journal article and other scholarly writings Aynes has sought to bring to light the beliefs of Representative Bingham and the other framers of the Fourteenth Amendment – particularly the framers' intent that the Fourteenth Amendment should be broadly construed to embrace all of the Bill of Rights. Another prominent scholar writing in this vein is Professor Michael Kent Curtis of Wake Forest University School of Law, whose work is also cited by the Supreme Court in McDonald.
Professor Aynes is the John F. Seiberling Chair of Constitutional Law and serves as the Director of the Constitutional Law Center at The University of Akron School of Law. From 1985 to 2007 he served as Dean of the School of Law. Earlier this year Professor Aynes was recognized as the faculty's Outstanding Scholar.
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