Executive Director

Karen J. Greenberg

Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security.

She is the editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security, co-editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, and editor of the books Al Qaeda Now and The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press).  Most recently she served as the co-chair to Governor Eliot Spitzer’s Homeland Security transition committee, where she advised the Governor-Elect, Lieutenant Governor-Elect and the transition team on the major challenges facing the state.

She previously taught courses in the European Studies Department at New York University. She is a former Vice-President of the Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute and the founding director of the Program in International Education.  She is a frequent writer and commentator on terrorism, international law, the war on terror, and detainee issues.  Her work has been featured in the LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Nation, the American Prospect, and on the major news channels.  She has served as a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NY Council for the Humanities, the NYC Board of Education and USAID.

Profile of Karen J. Greenberg in the New York Times.

Faculty Advisors

Stephen Holmes

Stephen Holmes is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.
His fields of specialization include the history of liberalism, the disappointments of democratization after communism, and the difficulty of combating terrorism within the limits of liberal constitutionalism. In 2003, he was selected as a Carnegie Scholar. From 1997 to 2000, he was a professor of politics at Princeton. From 1985 to 1997, he was professor of politics and law at the Law School and Political Science Department of the University of Chicago. From 1979 to 1985, he taught at the Department of Government at Harvard University. He was also the editor-in-chief of the East European Constitutional Review from 1993-2003.  He is the author of Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Yale University Press, 1984), The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (Harvard University Press, 1993), Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1995), and co-author (with Cass Sunstein) of The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes (Norton, 1999), and most recently, The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

 

Richard H. Pildes

Richard H. Pildes is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and a law professor at the New York University School of Law.
He specializes in constitutional law and legal issues involving the structure of democratic processes. He is the co-author of the casebook, The Law of Democracy (2nd ed. 2001) and the author of numerous academic articles that have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and other leading legal journals. His work has been cited numerous times by the United States Supreme Court, and he has lectured in many countries on constitutional issues. From 1988 to 2000, he was a professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. Professor Pildes received his A.B. degree summa cum laude in chemistry from Princeton University in 1979, and his J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1983, where he was Supreme Court Note Editor on the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He is the author of "Between Civil Libertarianism and Executive Unilateralism: An Institutional Process Approach to Rights During Wartime" (co-authored with Sam Issacharoff).

 

Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and a law professor at Harvard Law School.
He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Feldman was Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.  He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005.  In 2004 he was a visiting professor at Yale Law School and a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center.  In 2003 he served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law or interim constitution.   From 1999 to 2002, he was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.  Before that he served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court (1998 to 1999) and to Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1997 to 1998). He received his A.B. summa cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 1992. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a D.Phil. in Islamic Thought from Oxford University in 1994. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997, serving as Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He is the author of three books: Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2005); What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation building (Princeton University Press 2004); and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2003).

 

David M. Golove

David M. Golove is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and is the Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law and Director of the J.D./LL.M. Program in International Law at the NYU School of Law. 
He has secured a reputation as one of the most original scholars in constitutional law. Among his notable academic writings is a book-length article, "Treaty-Making and the Nation: The Historical Foundations of the Nationalist Conception of the Treaty Power," 98 Michigan Law Review 1075 (2000) . His other notable articles include "Against Free-Form Formalism," 70 NYU Law Review 1791 (1998); "Is NAFTA Constitutional?" 108 Harvard Law Review 801 (1995) (with Bruce Ackerman); "From Versailles to San Francisco: The Revolutionary Transformation of the War Powers," 70 Colorado Law Review 1491 (1999); "Philosophy of International Law,” Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 808-934 (2002) (with Allen Buchanan). Professor Golove received his B.A. from Berkeley in 1979 and has law degrees from Boalt Hall and Yale. He teaches Constitutional Law and International Law. Professor Golove is a member of the faculty Executive Committee of the NYU Institute for International Law and Justice and Director of the J.D.-LL.M. program in international law.

 

Staff

Nicole Bruno
Associate Director, Programs and Outreach
brunon@juris.law.nyu.edu

Nicole is the Associate Director for Programs and Outreach at the Center on Law and Security, where she assists with program content development, outreach to the media and to the broader public. She previously spent over two years at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York as a program associate, responsible for the Term Member Program, and more recently as program coordinator for the Studies Program. Nicole holds a BA cum laude in English literature with a minor in history from Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

 

Jeff Grossman
Editorial Associate
grossman@juris.law.nyu.edu

Jeff is the Center on Law and Security’s editorial associate. He is both a journalist and an attorney.  He has written for The New York Times, Psychology Today, The Prince George’s Journal in Lanham, Md., and The Stamford Advocate in Stamford, Conn. As an attorney, he has served as in-house counsel for Gibraltar Management Company in Tarrytown, N.Y. He has degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Emory University Law School, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and holds a coxswain rating in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

 

Maggie McQuade
Executive Assistant
mcquadem@juris.law.nyu.edu

Maggie McQuade is the Executive Assistant at the Center on Law and Security. Prior to joining the Center, she worked as paralegal in immigration law at a New York firm. Maggie is a graduate of Boston College, where she studied communications and international studies, and interned at the Institute of European Affairs and the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative.

 

David Tucker
Manager, Business & External Affairs
tuckerd@juris.law.nyu.edu

David Tucker is the Manager for Business and External Affairs at the Center on Law and Security. David has several years of experience in non-profit, education, and arts administration and recently worked in the public relations office at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He has consulted on strategic communications and fundraising campaigns for performing arts organizations and museums around the country.