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
Aug 4, 2017
A Federal Court Says Your Prescription Records Aren’t Really Private. The Supreme Court Might Have Something to Say About That.

Jun 13, 2017
The U.S. Intelligence Community Can Share Your Personal Information With Other Governments, and We’re Demanding Answers

Jan 19, 2017
In First of Many, ACLU FOIA Request Seeks Information About the New President’s Conflicts of Interests

Nov 23, 2016
Presidents Can’t Use National Security Concerns as an Excuse to Spy on Critics

Oct 4, 2016
New Documents Reveal Government Effort to Impose Secrecy on Encryption Company

Aug 8, 2016
Details Abound in Drone ‘Playbook’ — Except for the Ones That Really Matter Most

Jul 1, 2016
President Obama’s New, Long-Promised Drone 'Transparency' Is Not Nearly Enough

Jul 1, 2016
FBI Cameras in Seattle Need to Be Regulated by the Public — Not Secretly Imposed on the Public

Apr 4, 2016
Bye-Bye Birdie: Reddit’s Warrant Canary Disappears
