Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice (incoming)
Adam Griffin is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law. During law school, he served as a research assistant to Professor Stephen E. Sachs and UNC Law Dean Martin Brinkley. After law school, he spent two years litigating for liberty at the Institute for Justice as an inaugural Law and Liberty Fellow. He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Richard E. Myers in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and is now a separation-of-powers attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation.
Senior Attorney, Institute of Justice
Kirby Thomas West is a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, where she is also the co-director of IJ’s National Initiative to End Forfeiture Abuse. She joined IJ in 2018 and litigates cases defending property rights, free speech, and educational choice.
In her time at IJ, Kirby has launched challenges to unconstitutional civil forfeiture and impoundment schemes. She has also litigated educational choice cases, including as part of the IJ team that litigated Carson v. Makin, a landmark educational choice case decided in 2022.
In 2024, Kirby was a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School.
Before joining IJ, Kirby Was an attorney at Baker Botts LLP, in Washington D.C. She clerked for Judge Dennis Shedd of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Kirby received her law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2015.
Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School
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