Wilfred U. Codrington III is the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law and co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at Cardozo School of Law. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at N.Y.U. School of Law. A public law expert, his research, teaching, and advocacy focus on voting, elections, and the law of democracy; constitutional law, including constitutional theory and reform; and civil rights, anti-discrimination, and the role of race in the law. Professor Codrington is the co-author of the 2021 book The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union (New Press), a narrative history of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution and clarion call for a renewed popular commitment to progressive constitutional reform. His other scholarship appears or is forthcoming in several academic journals, including the Columbia Law Review Forum, Harvard Law & Policy Review, N.Y.U. Law Review, and Washington & Lee Law Review, as well as in book chapters and other academic compilations. Codrington is a frequent commentator in the media, with essays and op-eds featured in outlets including The American Prospect, The Atlantic, The Hill, Politico, Slate, and U.S. News & World Report. 

Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty in July 2024, Professor Codrington was an Associate Professor of Law and Dean’s Research Scholar at Brooklyn Law School, a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M School of Law, and an Adjunct Professor at the N.Y.U. Wagner School of Public Service. Before the academy, he was the inaugural Bernard and Anne Spitzer Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and a counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program and a litigation associate in the New York office of the global law firm, DLA Piper. Following law school, Codrington served as a fellow and staff attorney at the Campaign Legal Center, a staffer for U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, and a law clerk for the Honorable Deborah Anne Batts, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. Professor Codrington, a first-generation college graduate, earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Brown University with honors, an MPA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a JD from Stanford Law School. He is admitted to practice law in New York, Massachusetts (inactive), and the District of Columbia (inactive), as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.