Biography
Laura S. Fitzgerald earned her B.A. from Hollins College and her J.D. from Yale School of Law, where she was Senior Editor of The Yale Law Journal. She clerked for the Hon. Louis F. Oberdorfer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia from 1987-88 before entering private practice. At Washington and Lee Sdhool of Law, she taught Federal Jurisdiction, Federal Civil Procedure, and Civil Rights.
Select publications:
Suspecting the States: Supreme Court Review of State-Court State-Law Judgments, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 80 (2002).
Is Jurisdiction Jurisdictional?, 95 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1207 (2001).
Beyond Marbury: Jurisdictional Self-Dealing in Seminole Tribe, 52 Vand. L. Rev. 407 (1999), available at HeinOnline.
Cadenced Power: The Kinetic Constitution, 46 Duke L.J. 679 (1997), available at HeinOnline.
The Constitutional Amendment by Missouri v. Jenkins, 2 Race & Ethnic Anc. L. Dig. 39 (1996).
Washington and Lee School of Law 
