Bio
Brett Max Kaufman is a senior staff attorney in the ACLU’s Center for Democracy, where he works primarily on national security issues. Mr. Kaufman is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Texas School of Law, where he was book review editor of the Texas Law Review and a human rights scholar at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. After graduation from law school, Mr. Kaufman spent one year in Israel, serving first as a foreign law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Asher Dan Grunis and then as a volunteer attorney at Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement. He next completed two clerkships in New York City — with the Hon. Robert D. Sack of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and with Judge Richard J. Holwell and (after Judge Holwell’s resignation) Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He spent two years as a national security fellow in the ACLU’s National Security Project, and one year as a teaching fellow in New York University’s Technology Law & Policy Clinic, where he continues to serve as an adjunct professor of law.
Featured work
Jun 23, 2022
Supreme Court Ruling Rejects the Promise of Miranda Rights

Jan 20, 2022
In Montana, Your Right to Cell Phone Privacy is Up for Debate

Mar 13, 2019
Press Freedom Groups Urge Court to Uphold Core First Amendment Protection in DNC-Russia Lawsuit

Jan 11, 2019
William Barr’s Unsolicited Memo to Trump About Obstruction of Justice

Sep 19, 2018
Trump Is Unshackling America's Drones Thanks to Obama's Weakness

Apr 17, 2018
Who Should Review Michael Cohen’s Files Under the Fourth Amendment?

Oct 16, 2017
The CIA Is Playing Coy About Trump’s First Raid In Yemen

Aug 15, 2017
A Sweeping Search Warrant Targets Anti-Trump Website in Clear Threat to the Constitution
