An Advocate for a Culture of Integrity In and Out of the Boardroom

The peripateic Kenneth Starr today teaches constitutional law, argues cases, and has taken on the constitutionality of the PCAOB.

Kenneth Starr was thrust into the limelight when he was appointed Independent Counsel investigating first Whitewater and its successor, the Monica Lewinsky affair, which led to the unsuccessful impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Starr, never comfortable in the spotlight, now lives a quieter life as dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law and of counsel to Kirkland & Ellis. Still, he can’t seem to stay away from the D.C. courts. The jurist joined the Free Enterprise Fund, a conservative think tank that filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a mandate of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Starr spoke to Directorship during the magazine’s annual Boardroom Forum earlier this year about his lengthy legal career, his time in the public eye, the current make-up of the Supreme Court, and what all directors should know about the Constitution.

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