Kenneth W. Starr

Kenneth W. Starr is the Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law. Formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Mason Law School, Adjunct Professor at New York University Law School and a partner at the Washington, DC branch of the Chicago-based law firm Kirkland & Ellis, he is agraduate of Duke Law School. He served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1989 to 1993, during which time he argued twenty-five cases before the Supreme Court. Starr served as Judge on the DC Court of Appeals and for two years as law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. He also served as the special prosecutor of President Clinton in the so-called "Whitewater" investigation.

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