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Russ Feingold
As a lawmaker, diplomat, attorney, and professor, Russ Feingold has devoted his career to protecting the Constitution’s bedrock guarantees. Serving nearly two decades in the United States Senate, Feingold was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act, cosponsored the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold Act), the most important campaign finance reform in decades, and was one of nine senators to vote against the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. He sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee and chaired its Sub-committee on the Constitution.
Feingold has also served as a U.S. special envoy and taught at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and Marquette Law Schools. He was President of the American Constitution Society and is Chair of the Global Steering Committee of the Campaign for Nature. He is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Feingold has written a New York Times bestseller, While America Sleeps: a Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era, and authored with attorney Peter Prindiville, The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It.
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Zephyr Teachout
Zephyr Teachout is a Professor at Law at Fordham Law School where she focuses on the intersection of corporate power and political power. She teaches corporations, election law, antitrust, and prosecuting white collar crime. Her most recent book, Break 'em Up (2020), makes a case for reimagining the relationship between democracy and antimonopoly law. Her prior book, Corruption in America (2014), argued that the American constitutional system has an embedded anti-corruption principle that has been discarded by the modern Court.
Her public writings have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Review of Books, Washington Post, The Nation and The New Republic. In 2021, she took a leave to work as Special Advisor and Senior Counsel for Economic Justice at the New York Attorney General's Office. Before Law School, Zephyr Teachout had a career as a digital consultant and nonprofit entrepreneur, and represented clients on death row in North Carolina. She was a Law Clerk to then-Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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Kelsi B. Corkan
Kelsi Brown Corkran is the Supreme Court Director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection and a Senior Lecturer at Georgetown Law. Kelsi joined ICAP in 2021 to expand its Supreme Court practice in response to the growing need for dedicated public interest litigators with specialized expertise in defending constitutional rights before the nation’s highest court.
Kelsi has served as lead counsel in numerous civil rights merits cases before the Supreme Court. She presented oral argument before the Court in Trump v. CASA on behalf of the immigration advocacy groups challenging President Trump’s Executive Order eliminating birthright citizenship; Grants Pass v. Johnson, an Eighth Amendment challenge to the criminalization of homelessness; Acheson Hotels v. Laufer, a disability discrimination case under the Americans with Disabilities Act; Torres v. Madrid, involving a Fourth Amendment seizure claim by a police shooting victim; and City of Hays v. Vogt, addressing the scope of the Fifth Amendment’s Self-Incrimination Clause. She has also argued over 30 cases in the courts of appeals, including 12 of the 13 U.S. Courts of Appeals and the en banc Sixth and Ninth Circuits.
Immediately prior to joining ICAP, Kelsi was the Head of the Supreme Court Practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. She previously served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court and Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Brendan Ballou
Brendan Ballou is a former federal prosecutor, and for two years prosecuted rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He previously served as special counsel for private equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. He is the author of Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America, and the forthcoming When Companies Run the Courts: Forced Arbitration and America’s Secret Justice System. He frequently appears on CNN and MSNBC, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Politico, The Nation, and elsewhere.
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Amy Marshak
Amy Marshak serves as the Program Director of the Robert A. Katzmann Symposium at NYU School of Law and a researcher at NYU Law's Center for Law and Public Trust. Amy previously served as senior counsel and Litigation Director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law, where she litigated cases at all levels of state and federal courts across the country. Prior to that, she served as an attorney advisor and counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and an attorney and intelligence analyst in the NYPD Intelligence Division. Amy clerked for Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. She received her law degree summa cum laude from NYU Law and her undergraduate degree in government and economics from Cornell University.