Joseph Fishkin

Joseph Fishkin is a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, specializing in areas such as employment discrimination law, election law, and constitutional law. Previously, he served at the University of Texas School of Law as the Marrs McLean Professor in Law and was a visiting professor at Yale Law School. He holds a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics (summa cum laude) from Yale University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar. Before academia, he clerked for Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and was a Ruebhausen Fellow at Yale Law School.

Education:

• B.A., Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Yale University, summa cum laude
• J.D., Yale Law School
• D.Phil., Politics, University of Oxford (Fulbright Scholar)

His research focuses on legal frameworks addressing inequality, distributive justice, and systemic barriers to equality. Notable works include Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity (winner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award) and The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy (co-authored with Willy Forbath). His writing appears in leading law journals such as the Columbia Law Review and Yale Law Journal.

Awards:

• North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award (for Bottlenecks)

Teaching and Service:

• Teaches courses including Constitutional Law I, Employment Discrimination Law, and Election Law at UCLA.
• Blogs actively at Balkinization.