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Douglas W. Kmiec, b. September 24, 1951, is Caruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law, Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu California. He served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel (U.S. Assistant Attorney General) for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, a position previously held by the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia in the Nixon and Ford administrations. (Kmiec started out in the OLC with Samuel A. Alito, Jr.)
Professor Kmiec is the former Dean and St. Thomas More Professor of the law school at The Catholic University of America (2000-2003). With leaves for government service, Professor Kmiec was a member of the law faculty at the University of Notre Dame from 1980 to 1999. At Notre Dame, he directed the Thomas White Center on Law & Government and founded the Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy. Professor Kmiec has been a White House Fellow, a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar on the Constitution (in Asia), the inaugural Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the National Constitution Center (with Yale's Akhil Amar).
An honors graduate of Northwestern University, Professor Kmiec received his law degree from the University of Southern California, where he served on the Law Review and received the Legion Lex Commencement Prize for Legal Writing. He is a member of the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court and the state bars of Illinois and California.
http://law.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/kmiec.html
His published work includes ''The Attorney General's Lawyer'', three books on the American Constitution, a two-volume legal treatise, related books, and hundreds of published articles and essays. He is a frequent guest in the media on programs such as the NewsHour, Meet the Press,and NPR, analyzing constitutional, cultural, and political developments. For a list of Professor Kmiec's recent writings:
http://law.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/scholarship.html#kmiec
With his wife, Carolyn Keenan Kmiec (the director of a fine arts program at Pepperdine for disadvantaged children), he has five children, Kloe, Kolleen, Kiley, Katherine, and Keenan who graduated from Boalt Hall Law School and was selected as a 2006-2007 law clerk to U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts. Following his CUA deanship, Professor Kmiec assumed the chair in constitutional law at Pepperdine University School of Law.
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