Neal Katyal

Georgetown University Law Center

Prior to teaching at Georgetown, he was law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. During 1998-99, Professor Katyal served as National Security Adviser to the Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice. He was commissioned by President Clinton in 1999 to co-author a report on ways the legal profession can enhance its pro bono activities and diversify the Bar, and was Visiting Professor at Yale Law School in 2001-02 and Harvard Law School in 2002. In 2005, Professor Katyal was named one of the "Top Lawyers Under 40" by the National Law Journal because of his extraordinary achievements in the legal profession, including his involvement on some of the most significant cases of the decade. He is the lead attorney in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, a federal challenge to the military tribunals set up by President Bush at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In 2000, Katyal served as co-counsel for Vice President Al Gore in the U.S. Supreme Court election case Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing Board, which challenged the Florida voting system. And he filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court involving the Pledge of Allegiance and an amicus brief for a group of private law school deans in the high court's landmark affirmative action case, Grutter v. Bollinger. His publications have appeared in Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Pennsylvania Law Review. His primary academic interests are Constitutional Law (primarily separation of powers, constitutional legitimacy, presidential power, slavery and affirmative action), Criminal Law (particularly cybercrime, conspiracy, architectural solutions to crime and the role of deterrence), and Education Law.