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Thomas Moukawsher

Former Judge at Connecticut Superior Court
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Thomas Moukawsher has spent nearly 40 years studying, making, and administering law. He has been a lawyer, a legislator, a lobbyist, and for nearly 10 years a complex litigation judge. As a lawyer and judge he has tried hundreds of cases and argued dozens of appeals during his practice, including criminal, civil, family, housing, and complex constitutional cases. He is a sustaining life fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the Madison Council at the Library of Congress. He earned a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law where he was an editor of the Connecticut Law Review and a B.A. in English from The Citadel where he edited The Citadel Review. He is also author of the new book from Brandeis University Press, The Common Flaw: Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce It.

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