Religious Liberties
Phoenix Student Chapter
Speakers:
- Professor Ken Klukowski, Liberty Law
- Professor Jennifer Spreng, Phoenix Law
Speakers:
- Professor Ken Klukowski, Liberty Law
- Professor Jennifer Spreng, Phoenix Law
Phoenix Student Chapter
Speakers:
Speakers:
Senior Counsel, Schaerr Jaffe LLP
Ken Klukowski is senior counsel at the law firm Schaerr Jaffe, focusing on constitutional, administrative, and election law, and the federal courts. He has served in politically appointed positions in the U.S. government, including senior counsel in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and prior to that in the White House as special counsel in the Office of Management and Budget. He was also the constitutional rights advisor on the Presidential Transition Team of President Donald J. Trump. In the private sector, he has worked as a senior fellow of the American Constitutional Rights Union, senior counsel at First Liberty Institute, and a legal journalist. He litigates constitutional cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts, and contributes to media coverage of the nation’s highest court and legal issues. Earlier in his career, Klukowski served as special deputy attorney general of Indiana, and worked on faculty at Liberty University School of Law. His academic works have been published by journals such as the Federalist Society’s Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and his columns have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and other national publications. His amicus briefs and nine law review articles have been cited by various federal courts and top legal journals. He has participated in numerous Supreme Court cases, and lectured and debated at 100 law school events nationwide. Klukowski received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, studied history at Arizona State University, earned his law degree from Scalia Law School at George Mason University, and served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Alice Batchelder on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Associate Professor of Law, St. Mary's School of Law
Spreng practiced bankruptcy and civil litigation in Owensboro, Kentucky, for nine years, for clients as diverse as a multi-million dollar debt collector, an oil producer, a pharmaceutical research firm, a municipal government, diet drug patients, dependent children, injured workers, union members and countless bankruptcy filers. She is a former clerk to Judges Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and F. A. Little Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Before law school, she served as a U.S. Congressional staff member providing research support for a welfare reform project that formed the foundation for the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996.
Prior to joining the faculty, Spreng was Associate Professor of Law and taught Bankruptcy, Civil Procedure, and Constitutional Law for nine years at Arizona Summit Law School, where she was a leader in cutting-edge curriculum development, course integration, and innovative classroom teaching methodologies and materials. She has also taught Legal Writing, Research and Analysis and Pretrial Practice at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School.
Spreng regularly publishes and lectures in both the United States and abroad about law school teaching and curriculum, and she also pursues a doctrinal scholarship agenda focusing on religious liberties and food, drug and pharmacy law. She is the author of the book, Abortion and Divorce Law in Ireland, and her articles about a possible Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reorganization are leaders in the field and oft-cited in Congressional testimony. She won Arizona Summit’s 2013 Faculty Scholarship Award.
Spreng has served on the Advisory Board of the Diocese of Phoenix’s John Paul II the Great Center for Theology of the Body and Culture and the Board of Advisors of the Daviess County Public Library, among other civic and charitable institutions.