Areas of Expertise:
law | constitutional law | election law | antidiscrimination law | wealth inequality | political economy
Joseph Fishkin is a professor at UCLA School of Law whose research focuses on the following areas:
- Constitutional law, election law, antidiscrimination law and the interaction of law and political economy
- Controversies and legal cases related to elections, antidiscrimination law and political economy
- How U.S. legal and political systems are responding to inequality and concentrated wealth
Fishkin is the author of “Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity” (2014), which won the North American Society for Social Philosopy book prize, and “The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy” (2022), with Willy Forbath.
He serves on the board of academic advisors of the American Constitution Society.
To reach Fishkin, email [email protected].
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