Ken Starr Faculty Fellow Brittney Lane Kubisch (JD '12) Selected for Inaugural Research Fellows Class for Georgetown Center for the Constitution

Pepperdine Caruso Law Ken Starr Faculty Fellow and alumna Brittney Lane Kubisch (JD '12) has been selected for the inaugural class of research fellows for the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. The research fellowship supports early-career academics who have scholarship focused on constitutional law or constitutional theory. Over the course of their fellowship, the fellows will work closely with faculty and thought leaders, producing original research, participating in seminars, and shaping key conversations in the field.

From the Georgetown Center for the Constitution:

Brittney  Lane Kubisch is the Ken Starr Faculty Fellow at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, where her research focuses on the original public meaning of the Constitution and structural limitations on government power. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her J.D. from the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law in 2012, where she was the valedictorian and received numerous awards for trial and appellate advocacy.  After law school, she clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  She later clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas at the United States Supreme Court.  In addition to clerking, Brittney spent more than 8 years in private practice as an appellate lawyer where she worked on cases before the Supreme Court and numerous appellate and district courts.

Additional information on the 2024 research fellows may be found at Georgetown Law