Laura Portuondo

Biography

Laura Portuondo is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn Law School. She is a constitutional law scholar with expertise in First and Fourteenth Amendment liberty and equality jurisprudence. Her scholarship examines the constitutional law of gender, race, and religion together to generate unique insights about all three areas of law and constitutional theory more broadly. Professor Portuondo’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Duke Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and other top journals. Professor Portuondo teaches Constitutional Law, Family Law, and Reproductive Rights and Justice.

Professor Portuondo’s research and teaching have both earned recognition. In 2024, she was recognized as the Haub Law Emerging Scholar in Women, Gender, & Law. In 2025, Professor Portuondo won the Order of the Barons Professor of the Year for her teaching at the University of Houston Law Center. Her work has been reviewed multiple times in JOTWELL.

Professor Portuondo received her B.A. in English summa cum laude with distinction from Yale College. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also worked as a judicial strategy fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights and as a Fellow with the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School. Prior to joining Brooklyn Law School, Professor Portuondo taught at the University of Houston Law Center.

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