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
Nov 20, 2013
How a Secret Court's Backwards Logic Opened the Floodgates for NSA Spying

Nov 19, 2013
Senators Say Bulk Collection Unnecessary to Fight Terrorism

Nov 6, 2013
ACLU and Yale Clinic Seek Secret Court Opinions Authorizing NSA’s Bulk Collection of Americans’ Records

Oct 1, 2013
In Court Today: Challenging the CIA's Targeted-Killing "Secrets"

Sep 16, 2013
ACLU Challenges Government’s "Fiction of Deniability" on Use of Drones for Targeted Killing

Aug 9, 2013
A Guide to What We Now Know About the NSA's Dragnet Searches of Your Communications

Aug 1, 2013
How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say

Jun 19, 2013
Under the FISA Amendments Act, Your Calls and Emails Can’t Be "Targeted," But They Can Certainly Be Collected

Jun 11, 2013
ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging NSA's Patriot Act Phone Surveillance

Mar 15, 2013
Victory in Court: CIA Can No Longer Refuse to "Confirm or Deny" on Drones
