Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is a Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law in Florida, and a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law. She is a nationally recognized expert on election law and money in politics.

Professor Torres-Spelliscy has testified before Congress, and state and local legislative bodies as an expert on campaign finance reform, and has also helped draft legislation and Supreme Court briefs. She researches and speaks publicly on campaign finance law as well as judicial selection. She has spoken at symposia at 36 universities around the nation, including Harvard and Stanford. She presented at the 2013, the 2015, the 2018, and the 2019 Annual Conventions of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and at the 2014 and the 2018 Annual Convention of the American Constitution Society (ACS), and the 2011, the 2014, and the 2016 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. In 2018, she spoke at the International Society of Public Law's ICON-S conference in Hong Kong.

She is the author of the book Corporate Citizen? An Argument for the Separation of Corporation and State (Carolina Academic Press, 2016), and the book Political Brands (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019).