Miriam Becker-Cohen
Miriam is an Appellate Counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center. Prior to joining CAC, she served as a law clerk for Judge Theodore D. Chuang on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, and for Judge Kermit V. Lipez on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Earlier in her career, Miriam worked at Relman Colfax PLLC and the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, and completed a year-long special project based at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF).
Miriam first joined CAC in 2020 as the Douglas T. Kendall Fellow. Since then, Miriam has served as the lead author of dozens of briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court and lower federal courts addressing issues including civil and human rights, access to justice, and administrative law doctrines. Her writings have appeared in outlets such as the Washington Post, Slate, and The Regulatory Review.
Miriam is a graduate of Yale Law School and received her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Amherst College.