Renowned Stanford Law Professor Orin Kerr: What Professors Are Really Thinking

About this episode

Mike interviews renowned Stanford Law Professor Orin Kerr about legal education and the balance between practice readiness and legal thinking.

In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike has a conversation with Orin Kerr, a prominent law professor and legal academic who currently serves as a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. In his 25+ years as a law school faculty member, Professor Kerr has written 75+ law review articles, authored casebooks, and been cited in 4,500+ academic articles and 500+ judicial decisions, including several U.S. Supreme Court opinions. He has held tenured positions at Stanford Law, GW Law, USC Law, and UC Berkeley Law, and he has been a visiting professor at UChicago Law, Penn Law, and Yale Law. In addition to his career in academia, Professor Kerr completed two clerkships, including a Supreme Court clerkship with Justice Anthony Kennedy, argued before the Supreme Court, and practiced law for a number of years, including as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, a master’s degree in Mechanical…

People in this episode

Host: Mike

Guest: Orin Kerr

Topics covered

• legal education
• law school training
• academic career
• legal practice
• law review articles

Keywords

• Orin Kerr
• Stanford Law School
• legal training
• law professors
• academic articles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stanford Law School, Stanford’s Hoover Institution, GW Law, USC Law, UC Berkeley Law, UChicago Law, Penn Law, Yale Law, Department of Justice, Eastern District of Virginia

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