James Kilcup is clerking for Judge Alice M. Batchelder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously worked in Portland, Oregon as a litigation associate at Perkins Coie LLP, to which he will be returning post-clerkship. He graduated from The University of Chicago Law School, where he won the annual Edward W. Hinton Moot Court Competition and served as Articles Editor of the Chicago Journal of International Law and as President of the St. Thomas More Society. Mr. Kilcup also holds a M.A. in Philosophy from Loyola Marymount University and a B.A. in Philosophy and English from Seattle University.