Brian T. Fitzpatrick

Brian Timothy Fitzpatrick (born May 9, 1975) is an American academic and lawyer. Fitzpatrick is known for his unorthodox advocacy of class action lawsuits from a conservative point of view,^[1][2][3] and is the author of a book on the subject, The Conservative Case for Class Actions (University of Chicago Press, 2019).^[4]

Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick in 2018
Born	(1975-05-09) May 9, 1975 (age 50)
Occupation	Law Professor
Academic background
Education	University of Notre Dame (BS) Harvard Law School
Academic work
Discipline	Law
Sub-discipline	Class Action Textualism Originalism
Institutions	Vanderbilt University Law School

Education

Fitzpatrick received a Bachelor of Science in 1997 from the University of Notre Dame where he was the first runner up to Valedictorian.^[5] He received the Fay Diploma for the highest combined average for three years in his class at Harvard Law School in 2000.^[6]

Career

Fitzpatrick joined Vanderbilt University Law School in 2007 after spending time as a John M. Olin Fellow at the New York University School of Law. He has clerked for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Between his time as a clerk and professor, Fitzpatrick worked as an associate in Sidley Austin's Washington, D.C. office and as Special Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations to Senator John Cornyn. He teaches several courses at Vanderbilt, including Federal Courts, Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, and a seminar on textualism and originalism.^[7]

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9)