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Prof. Neal K. Katyal
Neal Katyal recently joined Hogan Lovells after serving as Principal Deputy Solicitor General and Acting Solicitor General of the United States. In that capacity he argued numerous Supreme Court cases, including his successful defense of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the landmark case, Northwest Austin v. Holder. He also successfully argued in favor of the constitutionality of President Obama's health care bill and unanimously won a Supreme Court case defending former Attorney General John Ashcroft against alleged abuses of civil liberties in the war on terror. Before that he was the chaired Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the lead counsel for the Guantanamo Bay detainees in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Katyal clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as well as Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He attended Dartmouth College and Yale Law School.
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