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Kirby Thomas West

Kirby Thomas West

Attorney, Institute of Justice

Biography

Kirby Thomas West is an attorney at the Institute for Justice, where she litigates cases defending property rights, free speech, and educational choice.

Before joining IJ in 2018, Kirby was a litigation associate at Baker Botts LLP. She clerked for Judge Dennis Shedd of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Kirby earned her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2015. While at Harvard, she served as the Articles Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Between her first and second years of law school, Kirby clerked at IJ’s Texas office.

Kirby graduated, magna cum laude, from Bucknell University in 2012 with a BA in English and Political Science.

Kirby is licensed in Pennsylvania.

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Morse Tan

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David Bernstein

David Bernstein

University Professor of Law and Executive Director, Liberty & Law Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Biography

David Bernstein holds a University Professorship chair at the Antonin Scalia Law School, where he has been teaching since 1995. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Georgetown University, William & Mary, Brooklyn Law School, the University of Turin, and Hebrew University. Professor Bernstein teaches Constitutional Law, Evidence, and Products Liability.

A prolific author, Professor Bernstein often challenges the conventional wisdom with prodigious research and sharp, original analysis. He is the author of five books, and coauthor of two more. Professor Bernstein’s book Rehabilitating Lochner was praised across the political spectrum as “intellectual history in its highest form,” a “fresh perspective and a cogent analysis,” “delightful and informative,” “sharp and iconoclastic,” and “a terrific work of historical revisionism.” Columnist George Will praised Bernstein’s most recent book, Classified, The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America, as “perhaps the most consequential American book of 2022.”

Professor Bernstein has also written dozens of articles and essays published in major law reviews, including the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. An article he coauthored, Defending Daubert: It’s Time to Amend Federal Rule of Evidence 702, directly inspired a pending amendment to Rule 702.

Professor Bernstein blogs at the Instapundit.com, the Times of Israel, and the Volokh Conspiracy. He is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy.

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Jesse Merriam

Jesse Merriam

Associate Professor of Government; Pre-Law Advisor, Patrick Henry College

Biography
Dr. Jesse Merriam has a Ph.D. in judicial politics and legal theory from Johns Hopkins University, a separate M.A. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.  
 
Dr. Merriam is an associate professor of Government at Patrick Henry College, where he is the pre-law advisor and teaches courses in constitutional law, legal theory, and logic. Before coming to Patrick Henry College, he served for six years as an assistant professor of political science and the pre-law advisor at Loyola University Maryland. He also worked as an appellate litigator at a D.C. constitutional law firm and as a research associate at the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life.
 
He has published over a dozen academic articles in top law-review and peer-reviewed journals, covering such diverse topics as legal conservatism, originalism, the rule of law, church-state relations, and the civil rights regime.  Dr. Merriam has also published over 30 online articles, appearing in such places as Law and Liberty, The American Mind, National Review Online, The American Conservative, and Claremont Review of Books.
 
In 2019-2020, Dr. Merriam was selected to be the Visiting Fellow in American Political Thought at the Heritage Foundation's B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics. He is currently a research fellow at the Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life.
 
Dr. Merriam lives in a 1750s stone farmhouse in a rural part of Frederick County, Maryland with his wife and their five children. 
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