Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is an Assistant Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law. She is the author of a forthcoming law review article entitled “How Much Does an Ambassadorship Cost?”, as well as co-author with Dr. Kathy Fogel of “Shareholder-Authorized Corporate Political Spending in the United Kingdom” in the Spring 2012 issue of the University of San Francisco Law Review.

Commentary Government USA

The Strange Legal Marriage of the Anti-choice Movement and Campaign Finance

By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy July 20, 2016

The same jerks after your uterus are shooting down campaign rules; one tactic just backfired.

Commentary Justice Race USA

The South Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on our Racist History

By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy July 9, 2015

We should take down the Confederate flag, but racism has always been and continues to be a national issue. A case study of Crandall v. State before the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1834 serves as a prime example.

Commentary Government

Somebody Give Bill Gates and Drew Faust a Copy of Citizens Disunited

By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy May 21, 2013

The new book by “class traitor” Robert Monks shows a system at its breaking point—and names the twenty-four Americans who can fix it.

Commentary Health Politics USA

The John Roberts Head Fake

By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy July 4, 2012

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare obscures the ruling’s other, deeply conservative result: a road-map for gutting Congressional power.

Commentary Politics USA

America Doesn’t Need Another CREEP

By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy May 9, 2012

Watergate led to a grassroots effort to clean up Washington. In the wake of Citizens United, and with the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal, is it time to act again?