Xiao Wang
Director, Appellate Advocacy Center, Bluhm Legal Clinic
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Phone
312-503-1486
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Northwestern Appellate Advocacy Center
Assistant
Angelia Starks
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-1497
Assistant Email
angelia.starks1@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Xiao Wang is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Director of the Appellate Advocacy Center. Prior to joining Northwestern, Xiao was a litigator at Williams & Connolly and Wilkinson Walsh. Before law school, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Areas of Expertise
- Federal Courts
- Constitutional Law
- Appellate Advocacy
Courses
Selected Publications
- From the Bird’s Eye: The Sixth Circuit’s Efforts to Breathe Life Into Substantive Reasonableness Review, 33 Federal Sentencing Reporter 221 (2021).
- In Defense of (Circuit) Court-Packing, 119 Michigan Law Review Online 32 (2020).
- Increasingly Antidemocratic? An Empirical Examination of the Supreme Court Nomination and Confirmation Process, 11 California Law Review Online 242 (2020).
Education
- JD, Yale Law School
- MPP, University of Virginia
- BA, University of Virginia
Prior Appointments
- Associate, 2018-2021, Wilkinson Stekloff LLP
- Associate, 2016-2018, Williams & Connolly LLP
- Law Clerk, 2015-2016, Judge Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- Law Clerk, 2014-2015, Judge Karen N. Moore, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit