The Federalist Society For Law & Public Policy Studies presents:

Mr. Ashley Keller and Professor William Baude: "Supreme Court Preview of 2018"

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Mr. Keller co-founded Gerchen Keller Capital and as Managing Director helped steer its growth to $1.3 billion in assets under management prior to its acquisition by Burford.

Before co-founding Gerchen Keller, Mr. Keller was a partner at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, The American Lawyer’s litigation boutique of the year, where he handled various trial and appellate matters involving multi-billion-dollar securities and patent cases, contractual disputes and mass-tort class actions.

Mr. Keller has also worked as an analyst at Alyeska Investment Group, a Chicago-based market neutral hedge fund, where he focused on investments in companies facing litigation and other complicated regulatory matters.

After graduating from Harvard, Professor Keller received an MBA, with high honors, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a JD, with highest honors, from the University of Chicago Law School. Professor Keller then clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the Seventh Circuit and for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.

William Baude is a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches federal courts and constitutional law. His current research papers include "Adjudication Outside Article III" and "Constitutional Liquidation." He is also the co-editor of the textbook, The Constitution of the United States. He is also an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism, a member of the American Law Institute (where he has advised on the Third Restatement of the Conflict of Laws) and an occasional blogger at the Volokh Conspiracy.

He received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and his JD from Yale Law School. He then clerked for then-Judge Michael McConnell on the United States Court of Appeals, and Chief Justice John Roberts on the United States Supreme Court. Before joining the Chicago faculty he was a fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, and a lawyer at Robbins Russell, LLP in Washington DC.