Paul Clement

Adjunct Professor of Law

Paul served as the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008.  Before his confirmation as Solicitor General, he served as Acting Solicitor General for nearly a year and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General for over three years.

Paul’s practice focuses on appellate matters, constitutional litigation, and strategic counseling.  He represents a broad array of clients in the Supreme Court and in federal and state appellate courts.  In the last two years, for example, he successfully argued Supreme Court cases involving significant issues of administrative law, First Amendment law, federal jurisdiction, and patent law, and he successfully argued court of appeals cases on issues ranging from environmental law and mass torts to contract interpretation and civil procedure.

Paul is a Distinguished Lecturer in Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught in various capacities since 1998, and he serves as a Senior Fellow of the Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute.  He is also the Justice Joseph Story Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Gray Center at Scalia Law School.