Senior Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law, Advancing American Freedom
Partner, Schaerr | Jaffe LLP
Erik Jaffe has been involved in appeals on a broad range of legal issues, including First Amendment challenges to campaign finance reform, Commerce Clause challenges to Health Care Reform and other federal legislation, Equal Protection Clause challenges to affirmative action in education, First Amendment challenges to school vouchers, Fifth Amendment challenges to takings of property, Second Amendment challenges to restrictions on gun ownership, and a wide variety of cases involving patents, copyrights, ERISA, securities fraud, federal preemption, environmental regulation, and other state and federal constitutional and statutory matters. He has represented businesses and non-profit groups, Judges, Senators, former government officials, Nobel Prize winners, and a broad cross-section of private individuals. Mr. Jaffe has been involved in over 120 Supreme Court matters, including filing over 30 cert. petitions, representing half-a-dozen parties on the merits, and filing over 70 amicus briefs at both the cert. and merits stages.
A 1990 graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, Mr. Jaffe was a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1990 to 1991. Following that clerkship he spent five years in litigation practice with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly. In the summer of 1996 he left Williams & Connolly to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. At the end of that clerkship he started his own practice, and he was a sole practitioner from 1997 to 2018. He joined the firm of Schaerr | Jaffe LLP in 2018.
Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and Co-Chairman, Board of Directors, The Federalist Society
STEVEN GOW CALABRESI is the Clayton J. & Henry R. Barber Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. He has also co-taught in the Fall semester at Yale Law School from 2013 to the present. Calabresi clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia and Judges Robert H. Bork and Ralph K. Winter. He was a Special Assistant to Attorney General Meese from 1985 to 1987 and worked with Ken Cribb as his deputy in 1987 on the second floor of the West Wing of the Reagan White House. Calabresi has written books on presidential power and comparative constitutional law and the origins of judicial review. He and Gary Lawson are the co-editors of a casebook on U.S. Constitutional Law, and Calabresi is also the co-editor of a casebook on comparative constitutional law. He has written over seventy law review articles since 1990.
Partner, Schaerr | Jaffe LLP
Erik Jaffe has been involved in appeals on a broad range of legal issues, including First Amendment challenges to campaign finance reform, Commerce Clause challenges to Health Care Reform and other federal legislation, Equal Protection Clause challenges to affirmative action in education, First Amendment challenges to school vouchers, Fifth Amendment challenges to takings of property, Second Amendment challenges to restrictions on gun ownership, and a wide variety of cases involving patents, copyrights, ERISA, securities fraud, federal preemption, environmental regulation, and other state and federal constitutional and statutory matters. He has represented businesses and non-profit groups, Judges, Senators, former government officials, Nobel Prize winners, and a broad cross-section of private individuals. Mr. Jaffe has been involved in over 120 Supreme Court matters, including filing over 30 cert. petitions, representing half-a-dozen parties on the merits, and filing over 70 amicus briefs at both the cert. and merits stages.
A 1990 graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, Mr. Jaffe was a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1990 to 1991. Following that clerkship he spent five years in litigation practice with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly. In the summer of 1996 he left Williams & Connolly to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. At the end of that clerkship he started his own practice, and he was a sole practitioner from 1997 to 2018. He joined the firm of Schaerr | Jaffe LLP in 2018.
Voting Fraud - Event Audio
Ray MartinezI, Hans A. Von Spakovsky, Erik S. Jaffe
Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group
The U.S. has a long history of voter fraud, and it continues to occur in...
Bar Watch Bulletin September 2006
Michael Wallace hearings, new members of Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary
WALLACE NOMINATION UPDATE On September 26, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on the nomination of...
The Legal Significance of Presidential Signing Statements
Steven G. Calabresi
A quiet revolution in the scope of the President's constitutionally prescribed "lawmaking" powers took place...
Bar Watch Bulletin August 9, 2006
Presidential Signing Statements
The ABA House of Delegates met on Tuesday to deliberate on a number of policy...
Bar Watch Bulletin August 8, 2006
Recommendations Considered by the House of Delegates, Karen Mendis Press Conference, Michael Greco's Farewell, Special Panel: Liberty vs. Security
The American Bar Association's Annual Meeting takes place in Honolulu from Thursday, August 3 to...
Bar Watch Bulletin August 7, 2006
Justice Kennedy's Definition of the Rule of Law, Gender, Race, and 9/11, Judicial Independence
The American Bar Association's Annual Meeting takes place in Honolulu from Thursday, August 3 to...
Bar Watch Bulletin August 5, 2006
Greco Press Conference, Diversity and Law Firms, Physician-Assisted Suicide
At a morning press conference, ABA President Michael Greco discussed three policies that the House...
ABA Watch August 2006
Table of Contents
The ABA, the Separation of Powers, and Executive PowerThe ABA Standing Committee on Federal JudiciaryControversy...
Public Financing of Campaigns
David M. Primo, Jeffrey Milyo
With the federal government and most states limiting or prohibiting individual, corporate, and union contributions...
Public Financing of Campaigns - Event Audio
Michael P. McDonald, David M. Primo, Erik S. Jaffe
Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group
With the federal government and most states restricting individual, corporate, and union contributions to campaigns,...