Biography
Burt Neuborne, the Norman Dorsen Professor in Civil Liberties at NYU School of Law, is one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers, teachers, and scholars. He is the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU. At the Brennan Center, he has concentrated on campaign finance reform and efforts to reform the democratic process. Neuborne has served as national legal director of the ACLU, special counsel to the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, and member of the New York City Human Rights Commission. In recent years, Neuborne has served as principal counsel in cases that have resulted in the payment of $7.5 billion to Holocaust victims. He has received the University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award and has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of “Madison’s Music:” On Reading the First Amendment, (The New Press 2015).
