Supreme Court Matters: The 2021-22 Landmark Cases
Kimberly West-Faulcon is a professor of law and holds the James P. Bradley Chair professorship in Constitutional Law at Loyola Law School where she teaches constitutional law and advanced topics in constitutional law on topics such as originalism, the Second Amendment, equal protection, abortion regulations, and LGBTQIA rights. She is a scholar of constitutional and antidiscrimination law as well as a pioneer in interdisciplinary research of law and standardized testing.
A national expert on structural anti-discrimination civil rights litigation, West-Faulcon began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow and directed the Western Regional Office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF). As an LDF attorney, she represented racially diverse classes of clients in innovative and multi-million dollar civil rights cases that challenged practices of defendants such as the University of California at Berkeley, the Los Angeles Police Department, and international clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch.
A graduate of Yale Law School, West-Faulcon was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Stephen R. Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
Eugene Volokh is professor of law at UCLA Law School where he teaches First Amendment law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic; he has also often taught criminal law, copyright law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. In addition to his academic work, he has also filed briefs in about 75 appellate cases throughout the country, has argued in over 20 federal and state appellate cases, and has filed briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (6th ed. 2016) and Academic Legal Writing (5th ed. 2016), as well as over 75 widely published and frequently cited law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute; a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel; and the founder and co-author of The Volokh Conspiracy, a Weblog that was hosted by the Washington Post and is now at Reason Magazine.
A graduate of UCLA Law School, he clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.
This Athenaeum event is co-sponsored by the Open Academy at CMC.
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