Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is an Associate Professor at Stetson University College of Law.

She teaches courses in Election Law, Corporate Governance, Business Entities, and Constitutional Law.

Ciara is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School.

^[2]She also writes for The Huffington Post.

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Prior to joining Stetson's faculty, Professor Torres-Spelliscy was counsel in the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law where she provided guidance on the issues of money in politics and the judiciary to state and federal lawmakers.

She was an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP and a staffer for Senator Richard Durbin.

Professor Torres-Spelliscy has testified before Congress, and state and local legislative bodies as an expert on campaign finance reform.

She has also helped draft legislation and Supreme Court briefs.

She is the editor of the 2010 edition of the Brennan Center's campaign finance treatise, "Writing Reform: A Guide to Drafting State and Local Campaign Finance Laws."

She researches and speaks publicly on campaign finance law as well as judicial selection.

She has spoken at symposia at 24 universities around the nation.

She presented at the 2013 and the 2015 Annual Conventions of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and at the 2014 Annual Convention of the American Constitution Society, and the 2011 and the 2014 Annual Conventions of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL).

In 2016 she spoke at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) at a forum on dark money and foreign money in U.S. elections.

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