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
Apr 21, 2014
Appeals Court Rules Government Can't Have It Both Ways on Targeted Killing

Apr 17, 2014
Guantánamo Dispatch: A Hard-Earned Trust in Peril

Apr 14, 2014
The FBI Derails the 9/11 Hearings at Guantánamo

Apr 2, 2014
Dragnet Surveillance and the English Language

Mar 19, 2014
PCLOB to Examine Legal Underpinnings of NSA Surveillance

Mar 14, 2014
Friends in High Places Support NSA Call-Tracking Lawsuit

Jan 30, 2014
How the Phone Dragnet Slipped Through Cracks in Oversight

Jan 20, 2014
MLK, Spying, and the “Urgency of the Moment”

Nov 27, 2013
Echoing Dirty Past, NSA Sought to Reveal Porn Habits to Discredit Targets

Nov 21, 2013
Finally, a Day in Court to Challenge Mass Surveillance
