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Teaches mass communications law in the spring. A graduate of Stanford University where he majored in journalism and Hastings College of Law; he is a litigation attorney who specializes in First Amendment and criminal cases. He has litigated numerous constitutional challenges to state and federal law. He is a partner at Kerr & Wagstaffe, a firm that engages in a trial and appellate practice, specializing in commercial litigation, First Amendment matters, employment cases and class actions. Wagstaffe is the co-author of Commencing and Removing Actions of Federal Court. Since 1984, he has represented the Journalism Department student publications on a pro bono basis.