Liza Goitein & David Shapiro
Liza Goitein, Director, Liberty & National Security Project
Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein directs the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Project, which seeks to ensure that our government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in conducting the fight against terrorism. Before coming to the Brennan Center, Ms. Goitein served as counsel to Senator Feingold, Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. As counsel to Senator Feingold, Ms. Goitein handled a variety of liberty and national security matters, with a particular focus on government secrecy and privacy rights. She also worked on matters involving immigration, juvenile justice, sentencing, and First Amendment issues. Previously, Ms. Goitein was a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. Ms. Goitein graduated from the Yale Law School in 1998 and clerked for the Honorable Michael Daly Hawkins on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
David Shapiro, Counsel, Liberty & National Security Project
David Shapiro works in the Liberty and National Security Project, focusing on national security policy and government transparency. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Mr. Shapiro worked as a Staff Attorney at the National Prison Project of the ACLU, specializing in prisoners’ access to religious materials, the rights of federal prisoners suspected of links to terrorism to be free from overly restrictive prison conditions, and incarcerated persons’ First Amendment right to communicate with loved ones. Mr. Shapiro practiced media and First Amendment law at a major law firm, where he litigated in the federal district and appellate courts. Mr. Shapiro clerked for Third Circuit Judge Edward R. Becker. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School and was a Fulbright Scholar based in Moscow, Russia.