FORA.tv Speaker - Kenneth W. Starr

Dean and Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law Dean Kenneth Starr is the author of many law review articles and the popular book, First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life. Prior to his deanship, he was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. In addition, he has served as counselor to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, Solicitor General of the United States, and independent counsel on the Whitewater matter. Dean Starr has argued 34 cases before the Supreme Court involving a wide range of governmental regulatory and constitutional issues of commercial importance. He clerked for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and presently teaches current constitutional issues.