Burt Neuborne
Leadership, Legal Director
Professor Neuborne has been the Brennan Center's Legal Director since the founding of the Center in 1995. For more than 20 years, he has been one of the nation's most active and successful civil liberties lawyers. With his unparalleled experience, Professor Neuborne counsels each of the Brennan Center's programs on strategic legal and policy matters, and he is directly engaged in the Center's litigation and scholarship. In October 2000, Professor Neuborne successfully presented the Brennan Center's argument in Legal Services Corporation v. Velazquez to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A nationally renowned scholar, Professor Neuborne is the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties at NYU School of Law, where he has taught since 1974. He received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1990. His long association with the ACLU culminated in his tenure as National Legal Director (1982-86).
Professor Neuborne has litigated a wide range of landmark cases in the U. S. Supreme Court and other federal and state courts. He has authored or co-authored four books, including The Rights of Candidates and Voters and two volumes of Political and Civil Rights in the United States, as well as seventeen law review articles, which touch on a wide range of topics including free speech, legal theory, separation of powers, legal procedure, and comparative law.