Robert J McWhirter

The Law Offices of Robert J McWhirter

attended the ASU School of Law and upon graduation clerked for Arizona Supreme Court Vice-Chief Justice Stanley Feldman. He has been a senior trial attorney for the Federal Public Defender’s Office and the Maricopa Legal Defender’s Office. Mr. McWhirter is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar on constitutional law, immigration law, and he is a certified criminal specialist. Mr. McWhirter has been a visiting law professor in Chile, taught trial practice in various Latin American Countries, and testified before the Venezuelan constitutional convention forming the new Venezuelan Constitution. In 2010, Mr. McWhirter lived in El Salvador and administered an $11M USAID project to re-develop that country’s court, police, and legal system. Mr. McWhirter currently is a supervising attorney at the ASU Alumni Law Group.

His book on the history of the bill of rights, Quills, Bills, and Stills: An Annotated, Illustrated, and Illuminated History of the Bill of Rights (ABA Press 2015) will be out in hardbound this fall and in paperback in the summer of 2015.