Michael W. McConnell

• Administrative Law
• Civil Liberties
• Complex Litigation
• Constitutional Law
• Federal Courts & Federal Jurisdiction

• Federalism
• First Amendment
• Judgment & Decision Making
• Justiciability: Standing
• Legal History
• Legal Theory
• Local & State Government
• Mootness
• Political Questions
• Regulatory Policy
• Ripeness
• Separation of Powers
• Supreme Court
• Takings

District of Columbia

Since 1973

U.S. Supreme Court

Of Counsel

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Current

Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center

2009 - Current

Federal Judge

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

2002 - 2009

Professor

1985 - 1996

Assistant to the Solicitor General

U.S. Department of Justice

1983 - 1985

Associate, Justice William Brennan

Supreme Court of the United States

1980 - 1981

Law Clerk, Judge James Skelly Wright

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

1979 - 1980

The University of Chicago Law School

J.D. (1979)

Activities: editor of the University of Chicago Law Review

Michigan State University

B.A. (1976)

District of Columbia Bar

Member

1973 - Current