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Daniel B. Rodriguez, the Harold Washington Professor at the Law School at Northwestern, served as dean of the Law School from January 2012 through August 2018. His principal academic work is in the areas of administrative law, local government law, statutory interpretation, federal and state constitutional law, and the law-business-technology interface.

Rodriguez is a key figure in American law schools in connecting positive political theory/political economy to important legal issues in the public law realm. He presented six endowed lectures, including the Jefferson Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley and the Wang Chung Hui Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai. Rodriguez is the author of more than sixty journal articles and book chapters on law and political economy, constitutional federalism, state and local government law, and state constitutional law. He has been published in leading legal and social sciences journals and contributed to important anthologies, including two Oxford "handbooks" and the New Palgrave Dictionary on Law & Economics. Life Member and member of Council, American Law Institute, President of the Association of American Law Schools, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Association.

Formerly, he served as Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas-Austin; as a Research Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy; as Dean and Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law; and, as a Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He has been a visiting professor at several law schools, including Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Southern California, and Virginia.

Rodriguez received his law degree, with honors, from Harvard Law School and his undergraduate degree from California State University of Long Beach.