Author: Anthony M. Ciolli
Publisher: Nashwa
Publication Date: Feb 10, 2025
Country: Shazny Ramlan
Language: English
Keywords: U.S. Territories, American Bar Association (ABA) , Legal Exclusion , Institutional Discrimination, Colonial Legacy , Insular Cases
The American Bar Association (ABA) has done much to remedy its history of racial discrimination. However, to this day, the ABA systematically discriminates against lawyers in four overwhelmingly nonwhite U.S. territories. This Essay examines the history of this discrimination and proposes a potential way forward to remedy it.
- The Yale Law Journal
- VOLUME 134
Anthony M. Ciolli is an American legal scholar and attorney specializing in constitutional law, appellate advocacy, and U.S. territorial law.(m.facebook.com)
B.S., Cornell University (2003)
M.A., Queens College (2004)
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School (2007)
A.L.M., Harvard University (2008)
Executive LL.M., New York University (2012) (law.stmarytx.edu, law.stmarytx.edu)
Adjunct Law Professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law (since June 2021), where he teaches courses such as “Advanced Constitutional Law: United States Territories” and “State & Territorial Legal Institutions”
Senior Law Clerk and Special Assistant to the Chief Justice of the Virgin Islands, providing legal services and policy recommendations concerning the administration of justice
Past President of the Virgin Islands Bar Association (2017–2018)
Delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates, representing the Virgin Islands Bar Association (2014–present)
Member of the Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents (cdn.ymaws.com, law.stmarytx.edu, law.stmarytx.edu)
Ciolli has authored several scholarly articles focusing on the constitutional rights of U.S. territories and the legal frameworks governing them. Notable works include:
“Judicial Antifederalism” (Fordham Law Review, 2023), discussing the persistence of the Insular Cases and their impact on judicial federalism
“Territorial Paternalism” (Mississippi College Law Review, 2022), critiquing the withholding of constitutional rights from U.S. territories
“Needful Rules and Regulations: Originalist Reflections on the Territorial Clause” (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2024), analyzing the constitutional basis for congressional authority over territories
“Third-Class Citizens: Unequal Protection Within United States Territories” (Suffolk University Law Review, 2022), co-authored with Dana M. Hrelic, examining the unequal treatment of territorial residents (ir.lawnet.fordham.edu, dc.law.mc.edu, scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu, fordhamlawreview.org)
Through his academic and professional endeavors, Ciolli continues to advocate for equitable legal treatment and constitutional rights for residents of U.S. territories.