Brian is Deputy Chief Counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center. Before joining CAC in 2016, Brian was an attorney at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency in the executive branch, where he reviewed the legality, constitutionality, and policy implications of the federal government’s antiterrorism measures in order to help ensure the protection of civil liberties and privacy. Earlier in his career, Brian was the Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow at Public Citizen Litigation Group. He served as a law clerk for Judge Paul L. Friedman of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Brian is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor for the Yale Law Journal. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Mary Washington and holds a master’s degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.