David Halperin

David Halperin, "a founding board member of the American Constitution Society, became ACS's first executive director in June 2001. He previously worked as: Special Assistant for National Security Affairs and speechwriter to President Bill Clinton; solo litigation practitioner; legal associate to Professor Laurence Tribe; policy associate to Ralph Nader; Fellow of the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society; co-founder of the Internet company Progressive Networks (now RealNetworks); counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee; and law clerk to U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell. His writings have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The National Law Journal, Foreign Policy, and The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. He graduated from Yale Law School (1989) and Yale College (1984)."

His father is Morton Halperin.


 * Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress