Patrick Borchers

Patrick J. Borchers is an American lawyer, university administrator and politician.

Life and career
Borchers was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from Boulder High School in Boulder Colorado in 1979. He received a B.S. in physics with Honors from the University of Notre Dame in 1983. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of California, Davis School of Law where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He was a law clerk to Anthony Kennedy from 1986 to 1987 when Kennedy was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Kennedy was later elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Borchers practiced law in Sacramento, California. In Board of Supervisors v. Local Agency Formation Com., 3 Cal. 4th 903 (1992), he successfully represented before the California Supreme Court a citizens group attempting to form the new city of Citrus Heights, California, arguing that it did not violate the Equal Protection Clause to restrict voting to those within the proposed city's boundaries.

Academic career
After starting his academic career at Albany Law School, he was appointed in 1999 Dean of Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska, serving until 2007. While in that position, he founded the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. In 2007, Borchers was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs at Creighton, the Chief Academic Officer of the university. He stepped down in 2013 and was appointed director of the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. Borchers's academic specialties include private international law (conflict of laws), international arbitration and federal jurisdiction and procedure. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books and about 60 law review articles.

Borchers's affidavits have been cited in conflict-of-laws cases in both the U.S. and Ontario. His works have been cited by U.S. Courts of Appeal. State appellate courts have also cited his writings, including Louisiana, Missouri) New Jersey, Tennessee, Illinois, and Michigan.

Borchers has written on the extra-territorial effect of same-sex marriages. In a Rhode Island case, Borchers's work was cited in an amicus brief filed by groups opposing the state's recognition of a same-sex marriage contracted in Massachusetts.

Political involvement
Borchers serves as the Douglas County chair of Shane Osborn's Senate campaign.

Personal life
Borchers is married to Judy Borchers, a 1987 graduate of the U.C. Davis School of Law, and is the father of five children. He and his wife have been the attorney coaches for ten years for the Skutt Catholic High School mock trial team.