Joseph Fishkin | Source | Professor of Law at UCLA

Joseph Fishkin is Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. Fishkin received a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He received a D. Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has served as a law clerk for Chief Justice Margaret Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and spent a decade at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the Marrs McLean Professor in Law. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Prof. Fishkin’s work focuses on the intersection of law and political theory; he studies constitutional law, election law, antidiscrimination law, distributive justice, and inequality. He has been published and quoted in The Washington Post, the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, The American Prospect, Politico, Salon, The Guardian, Slate, Time, Huffington Post, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, and many others. He has appeared on WNET (Ep 2: The Supreme Court), Washington Post’s “Constitutional” podcast, and NPR’s “Marketplace” among numerous others.