| William R. Maurer is the Executive Director of the
Institute for Justice Washington Chapter (IJ-WA), which he joined
in November 2002. IJ-WA engages in constitutional litigation in
the areas of economic liberty, private property rights,
educational choice, freedom of speech, and other vital liberties
secured by the Washington State Constitution.
Prior to joining IJ-WA, Maurer was an attorney in the Bellevue,
Washington office of Perkins Coie LLP, where he practiced
regulatory law and administrative and appellate litigation from
1997 through 2002. He is a former law clerk to Justice Richard B.
Sanders of the Washington State Supreme Court and Justice Victoria
Lederberg of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. He is currently the
Vice Chairman of the Federalist Society's Civil Rights Practice
Group, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Administrative Law
Section of the Washington State Bar Association, and is the former
Vice Chairman of the Federalist Society's Administrative Law
Practice Group. He is a chapter author for a forthcoming practice
manual on the Washington State Public Records Act. In 2000, he
received the National Law Journal’s Pro Bono award as part of the
Innocence Project Northwest.
Maurer received his law degree in 1994 from the University of
Wisconsin – Madison, where he was an articles editor of the
Wisconsin Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree in
Political Studies from Bard College in 1989.
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