JD, DePaul University College of Law
BA, Coe College

Eliot Tracz is an Assistant Professor of Law at New England Law | Boston. Prior to joining the faculty of NELB in 2022, Professor Tracz served as Associate General Counsel in the Office of Gov. Tim Walz & Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota. He previously served as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Kathy Wallace of the Minnesota Third Judicial District, and taught as an adjunct at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. In addition, he has experience litigating landlord tenant disputes, providing counsel in eminent domain cases and land use/zoning disputes, and handling a full docket of trademark matters.

Professor Tracz’s course offerings include Property I & II, Law & Economics, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Law, and Intellectual Property courses including the IP Survey course and Software and the Law.

Professor Tracz's research centers on LGBTQ Rights, Law and Democracy, and statutory interpretation. He has authored over two dozen scholarly works which have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as the Hofstra Law Review, American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and Law, Indiana International and Comparative Law Review, and the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal. In addition to his scholarship, Professor Tracz appears on panels and presents at conferences regarding LGBTQ rights. His non-scholarly work has appeared in popular venues such as The Hill and The Messenger.

Censorship, Least Cost Avoiders, and Common Sense, New England Law Review Faculty Blog (2024)

We Were Born This Way: The Fourteenth Amendment and Immutability, New England Law Review Faculty Blog (2024)

Gender. Identity. Property?, 35 UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice (2024)

Textualism and the Living Constitution, 60 Idaho Law Review (2024)

Medical Revolt and the Abandonment of the Dutch Protocol: Comparative Views on the Provision of Gender-Affirming Care to Children, 34 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review (2024)

Drag: Art. Obscenity. Crime., 23 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal (2024)

Politics aside, the unsealing of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant is a victory for the rule of law, The Hill (2022)

The law failed the victims of the Club Q shooting: Here are 3 ways we can honor their memory, The Hill (2022)

Words and Their Meanings: The Role of Textualism in the Progressive Toolbox, 45 Seton Hall Leg. J. (2021)

What Next for the Indirect Purchaser Rule?, 51 Cumberland L. Rev. (2020)

Towards a Preamble Based Theory of Constitutional Interpretation, 56 Gonzaga L. Rev. (2020)

Three Strikes and You Pay: Does the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s Three Strikes Provision Allow Prisoners to Appeal Their Third Strike In Forma Pauperis?, 95 U. North Dakota L. Rev. (2020)

Revisiting the Right to a Speedy Trial: Reconciling the Sixth Amendment and the Speedy Trial Act, 47 Capital U. L. Rev. (2019)

Doctrinal Evolution and the Living Constitution, 42 U. Dayton L. Rev. (2018)

Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?: An Economic Approach to the Common Heritage Problem in Outer Space, 16 Issues in Aviation L. & Pol’y (2016)