Sonia Katyal (chancellor's Professor of Law and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at UC Berkeley)
Brother-in-law
Jeffrey Rosen (president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia)
Career
Years Served
17 May 2010 โ 9 June 2011: Solicitor General of the United States
9 June 2011 โ 26 August 2011: Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States
Awards, Honours, Achievements
2004: Pro Bono award
2006: Runner-up for "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal
2007: One of the top 50 litigators nationally by American Lawyer Magazine
2011: The Edmund Randolph Award by the US Justice Department. It is the highest honor the department can bestow on a civilian.
2015: One of the 30 best living Supreme Court advocates by Washingtonian Magazine
One of the "90 Greatest Lawyers over the Last 30 Years" by Legal Times
Political Inclination
Democratic
Some Lesser Known Facts
1. Neal Katyal is a former American acting solicitor general of the United States.
2. He works full-time as Paul Saunders Professor at Georgetown University. He specializes in constitutional law, criminal law, and intellectual property.
3. During his time at Dartmouth College, he was a member of the fraternities Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Dartmouth Forensic Union.
4. Neal Katyal worked on the Yale Law Journalโs editorial board when he was a law student. He worked under the academics, Bruce Ackerman and Akhil Amar, and collaborated with them to write papers in legal and political opinion periodicals.
5. Neal Katyal has extensive knowledge in the areas of tribal, criminal, employment, corporate, patent, technology, and law.
6. While working for the Justice Department, Katyal argued a number of issues before the Supreme Court, notably Northwest Austin v. Holder (2009), where he successfully defended the legality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
7. Neal Katyal has argued more Supreme Court cases in the history of the United States than any other minority lawyer. He has argued 48 cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court till June 2023.
9. Neal Katyal runs a daily post-election litigation explanatory series on Instagram and YouTube called 'Courtside.'
10. He often appears as a panelist on live news shows.
11. Neal Katyal's wife, Joanna Rosen, practices the Jewish faith, and his brother-in-law, Jeffrey Rosen, is a well-respected figure in the American legal field.
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