RJ Vogt

I am a lawyer and current law clerk to the Hon. Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

 

I graduated from Stanford Law School, where I worked at the Legal Design Lab and the Center on the Legal Profession, studying and researching topics in access to justice, regulatory reform, and legal system design. You can read my scholarship here.

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Before law school, I wrote about access to justice for the legal newswire Law360. Earlier in my career, I worked in Yangon, Myanmar as a reporter and editor at The Myanmar Times, covering the country's first legitimate election in 50 years and the ensuing transfer of power. The paper has since shut down amidst a military coup.

 

My freelance work has appeared in Outside Magazine, McSweeney's Literary Quarterly and VICE, among others. I've also published research on the advocacy journalism of Ida B. Wells in the Lexington Books collection Political Pioneer of the Press: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice (2018).

 

I am originally from Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a degree in literary journalism.