Riley T. Keenan
Assistant Professor of Law
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Profile
Riley Keenan teaches Federal Courts, Constitutional Law, and a seminar on Constitutional Remedies. His scholarship focuses on the procedural and remedial aspects of constitutional litigation, including preclusion, justiciability, and equitable remedies. Prior to joining the Richmond Law faculty, Professor Keenan was a visiting assistant professor at Cornell Law School, where he taught a civil procedure course in addition to his seminar. Professor Keenan clerked for Judge Carlos T. Bea of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Before entering academia, he was an associate in the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C.
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Publications
Journal Articles
Minimal Justiciability, 109 Minnesota Law Review __ (2024).
Functional Federal Equity, 74 Alabama Law Review 879 (2023).
Identity Crisis: Claim Preclusion in Constitutional Challenges to Statutes, 20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 371 (2017).
Executive Privilege as Constitutional Common Law: Establishing Ground Rules in Political-Branch Information Disputes, 101 Cornell Law Review 223 (2015).