Derek A. Webb is an associate at Sidley Austin, LLP, where he focuses on Supreme Court and Appellate litigation. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Yale University, Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Notre Dame, and J.D. from Georgetown Law School. Following law school, he was a Fellow in Stanford Law School's Constitutional Law Center, a Supreme Court Fellow in the Office of the Counselor to the Chief Justice, and a law clerk to Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has been published in Law and History Review, The American Journal of Legal History, The Journal of American Political Thought, The Journal of Legal Education, and Judicature. In 2012 he received the Warren E. Burger Prize from the American Inns of Court for his article "The Original Meaning of Civility: Democratic Deliberation at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention." Derek will partake in the 2018 Fellowship as both a Faculty Member and as a Fellow.