James Kerwin

Senior Counsel

James Kerwin was born in Jamestown, NY and was raised in southern California.  He has a BA in Philosophy from the University of California at Riverside, and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. After clerkships with the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, he built a career litigating high stakes cases in New York City, including defending against activist-led civil rights class actions and battling public sector unions in state and federal court.    [Read More]

Mr. Kerwin is Senior Counsel in charge of MSLF’s First Amendment free speech practice.  He joined MSLF to take a stand against the capture of vital sense-making institutions by radical activists. For too long, activists have been unchecked as they have pushed important institutions such as schools and government agencies further and further away from seeking practical, commonsense solutions to actual problems and towards becoming engines of radical social change.  Enough is enough.   

When he is not suing the government, Mr. Kerwin enjoys improvising jazz piano riffs (badly). 

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