Dr. Scott Ruskay Kidd

Biography

Scott Ruskay-Kidd is a lecturer at Columbia Law School specializing in constitutional law, federal legislation, and reproductive rights. He has significant experience in advocating for reproductive rights, having previously served as a Senior Staff Attorney at the Judicial Strategy Center, where he led the amicus brief strategy for the successful defense of the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. Supreme Court case, June Medical Services v. Russo (2020). Ruskay-Kidd has a strong background in complex commercial litigation, having worked with notable law firms such as Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. His legal experience is complemented by clerkships with the Honorable Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals and the Honorable Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. An accomplished academic, he graduated from Columbia Law School as a James Kent Scholar and served as a Senior Editor for the Columbia Law Review. He also completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard College, where he was recognized as a John Harvard Scholar and Harvard National Scholar.

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