Alex Kozinski
Alex Kozinski served as United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1985 to 2017, including as the court’s chief judge from 2007 to 2014. From 1982 to 1985, he served as the first chief judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. In addition to his judicial service, he held several high-level governmental positions including a Senate-confirmed position as Special Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board; Assistant Counsel to President Ronald Reagan; Deputy Legal Counsel, Office of President-Elect Reagan; law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger; and law clerk to then-Ninth Circuit Judge, later Associate Justice, Anthony M. Kennedy. In private practice, he was an attorney at Covington & Burling from 1979-81, and Forry Golbert Singer & Gelles from 1977-79.
Judge Kozinski has written countless opinions at both the district court and appellate court levels on constitutional law issues including the First, Second and Fourth Amendments and the Takings Clause, federal jurisdiction and procedure, and intellectual property law. He has authored numerous articles in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review and other academic journals, as well as in popular publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Forbes and The New Republic, writing on a wide range of subjects from criminal justice reform to the finer points of snowboarding. A full list of his publications can be found at https://tinyl.io/AOca. Judge Kozinski is retired from the federal bench and is now in private practice, serving as a consultant and expert witness on matters of practice and procedure in cases being litigated by other lawyers in the state and federal courts, as well as foreign jurisdictions. He also occasionally appears as counsel of record in selected cases.
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