Wes Dodson is a Litigation Fellow at the Institute for Justice in the Texas Office. During law school, Wes worked as a summer clerk and several-time semester clerk in the Texas Office, where his research focused on the Texas Constitution and the federal Petition Clause.

Wes is a double Longhorn, having attended UT Austin for both undergrad and law school. Wes graduated law school with high honors and served as an editor on both the Texas Law Review and the Texas Review of Law & Politics. After law school, Wes clerked for Judge Drew B. Tipton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and then Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock of the Supreme Court of Texas. Wes has authored or co-authored three articles on constitutional issues: Qualified Immunity and the Right to Petition, 102 Tex. L. Rev. 605; The History and Tradition of Economic Liberty in Texas, 28 Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. 177; and Forms and Fortitude: Judge Oldham’s Dissental in DeVillier, 29 Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. 513