John Meiser is an associate clinical professor at Notre Dame Law School and director of the Law School’s Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic. He researches and teaches in the areas of religious liberty, litigation practice, and federal courts. Prior to joining Notre Dame, Professor Meiser taught and practiced law in a variety of contexts, including as a career law clerk to a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as assistant counsel to the Inspector General in the U.S. Department of Commerce, and in private practice as an appellate litigator in Washington, D.C. Meiser earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Notre Dame Law Review and received the Col. William J. Hoynes Award, the Law School’s highest honor.