Prof. Brittney Lane Kubisch

Professor Kubisch’s research focuses on the original public meaning of the Constitution, especially as it relates to structural limitations on government power and procedural constitutional rights. Her first two articles on the original understanding of due process and personal jurisdiction are forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review and Northwestern University Law Review.

Professor Kubisch teaches courses on the U.S. Constitution, theories of constitutional interpretation, and remedies. She has also been invited to speak to various groups around the country about the different interpretive approaches to the U.S. Constitution and emerging issues regarding horizontal federalism and hostile relations between the states.

Professor Kubisch received her J.D. from the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law in 2012, where she was the valedictorian and received numerous awards for trial and appellate advocacy. Professor Kubisch clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She later clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas at the United States Supreme Court. In addition to clerking, Professor Kubisch spent more than 8 years in private practice as an appellate lawyer at Jones Day and O’Melveny & Myers where she worked on cases before the Supreme Court and numerous appellate and district courts.