Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American lawyer and legal scholar. He is a partner at

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and is the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at

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. During the

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, Katyal served as Acting

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from May 2010 until June 2011. Previously he served as a lawyer in the Solicitor General's office and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the

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Early life and education

Neal Katyal was born on March 12, 1970, in

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, to immigrant parents originally from

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

. His mother, Pratibha, is a

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and his father, Surendar, who died in 2005, was an

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. Katyal's sister,

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, is also an attorney and teaches law at

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. Neal Katyal studied at

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, a

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Catholic high school in

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. In 1991 he graduated from

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, where he was a member of

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fraternity, and the

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. Katyal then attended

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. He was an editor of the ''

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'' and studied under

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and

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, with whom in 1995 and 1996 he published articles in law-review and political-opinion journals. After receiving his J.D. (

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) degree in 1995, Katyal clerked for Judge

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of the

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, then for Justice

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of the

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Career

President

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commissioned Katyal to write a report on the need for more legal ''

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'' work. In 1999 he drafted special counsel regulations, which guided the

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of the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the

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. He also represented Vice President

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as co-counsel in ''

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'', and represented the deans of most major private law schools in ''

Grutter v. Bollinger ''Grutter v. Bollinger'', 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action in student admissions. The Court held that a student admissions process that favors "underrepresented mi ...

.'' While serving at the Justice Department, Katyal argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, including his successful defense (by an 8–1 decision) of the constitutionality of the

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in ''Northwest Austin v. Holder''. Katyal also successfully argued in favor of the constitutionality of the

Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and informally as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by Presid ...

, and won a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court defending former Attorney General

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against alleged abuses of civil liberties in the war on terror in ''

Ashcroft v. al-Kidd ''Ashcroft v. al-Kidd'', 563 U.S. 731 (2011), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft could not be personally sued for his involvement in the detention of a U.S. citizen in the wa ...

''. Katyal is also the only head of the Solicitor General's office to argue in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. As Acting Solicitor General, Katyal succeeded

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, whom President

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chose to replace the retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice

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. On May 24, 2011, speaking as Acting

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, Katyal delivered the keynote speech at the Department of Justice's Great Hall marking

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. Developing comments he had posted officially on May 20, Katyal issued the Justice Department's first public confession of its 1942 ethics lapse in arguing the ''Hirabayashi'' and ''Korematsu'' cases in the US Supreme Court, which had resulted in upholding the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent. He called those prosecutionswhich were only vacated in the 1980s"blots" on the reputation of his office, which the Supreme Court explicitly considers as deserving of "special credence" when arguing cases, and "an important reminder" of the need for absolute candor in arguing the United States government's position on every case.. Katyal also lectured at

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concerning that decision. Katyal was critical of the

Guantanamo Bay detention camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GTMO ( ), GITMO ( ), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in 2002 by p ...

. While teaching at

for two decades, he was lead counsel for the Guantanamo Bay detainees in the Supreme Court case ''

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ''Hamdan v. Rumsfeld'', 548 U.S. 557 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both the Uniform Code of Milit ...

'' (2006), which held that

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s set up by the

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to try detainees "violate both the

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and the four

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."Neal Katyal
''The Supreme Court, 2005 Term – Comment:'' Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: ''The Legal Academy Goes to Practice''
120 Harv. L. Rev. 65 (2006). Upon leaving the Obama administration, Katyal returned to Georgetown University Law Center, but also became a partner at the global law firm

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. He specializes in

constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in ...

national security National security, or national defence (national defense in American English), is the security and Defence (military), defence of a sovereign state, including its Citizenship, citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of ...

criminal defense In the field of criminal law, there are a variety of conditions that will tend to negate elements of a crime (particularly the ''intent'' element), known as defenses. The label may be apt in jurisdictions where the ''accused'' may be assigned some ...

, and

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law, as well as running the appellate practice once run by

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. During law school Katyal clerked one summer at Hogan Lovells, where he worked for Roberts before Roberts became a judge. In 2015, Katyal had a cameo in the third season of the American television series ''House of Cards'', portraying a lawyer arguing a case in the Supreme Court . In 2017, ''

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positions in two Supreme Court cases, ''

Janus v. AFSCME ''Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31'', 585 U.S. 878 (2018), abbreviated ''Janus v. AFSCME'', is a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on US labor law, concerning the power of labor unions ...

''. and ''

Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis ''Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis'', 584 U.S. ___ (2018), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on how two federal laws, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), relate to whether employ ...

''. Katyal's employer,

, characterized Katyal's successes in these cases as a "major win for employers." In 2019, Katyal published his first book, ''Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump,'' with Sam Koppelman. Katyal and Koppelman also wrote a ''TIME'' editorial titled "Impeaching Trump Is Imperative to Preserving Our Democracy." In 2020, Katyal represented

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and

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at the Supreme Court in ''

Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe ''Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe'', 593 U. S. 628 (2021), is a United States Supreme Court decision regarding the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), which provides federal courts jurisdiction over claims brought by foreign nationals for violations of internatio ...

'', a

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suit brought by former enslaved children who were kidnapped and forced to work on cocoa farms in the

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. Katyal's argument was that Nestlé and Cargill should not be held liable under United States law for their use of child slave labor because international law does not apply to corporations. Katyal cited as an example that the company which supplied

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to the

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to kill Jews and other minorities in extermination camps was not indicted at the

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. Katyal was criticized by publications including ''

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''. In 2021, Katyal represented financial giant

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in their efforts to recoup a mistaken transfer of $900 million to creditors of Revlon Inc. He also worked with the prosecution team in '' State v. Chauvin''. Katyal is a board member of

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's venture capital firm

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. In 2022, Katyal argued for the respondents in ''

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'' before the Supreme Court, a case involving election law,

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and the

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. The court rejected the independent legislature theory and thus upheld Katyal's position by a 6–3 vote. Also in 2022, Katyal represented

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in a civil suit against the company for

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talcum

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contaminated with carcinogens. His billing rate for this was $2,465 per hour. On February 12, 2025,

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announced that Katyal will be leading the appellate practice of their Washington D.C. office. On April 2, 2025, President Donald J. Trump announced on Truth Social that Milbank had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services to causes supported by his administration and the law firm. The law firm also agreed to use a merit-based system and to not engage in “illegal D.E.I. discrimination. Katyal is a senior fellow at the

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, an American

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research foundation.

Political positions

Katyal has described himself as an " extremist centrist". He endorsed President

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's nomination of

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to the Supreme Court in an

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to ''

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''. When that newspaper's

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criticized the op-ed for failing to disclose Katyal had active cases being considered by the Court, Katyal responded that it would have been obvious he always has cases being heard by the Supreme Court. Katyal formally introduced Gorsuch on the first day of his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings. In addition to Gorsuch, Katyal spoke highly of Trump's nomination of

Brett Kavanaugh Brett Michael Kavanaugh (; born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9, 2018, and has served since Oct ...

to the Supreme Court. In multiple tweets that were cited by Republican Senate Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell Addison Mitchell McConnell III (; born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky, a seat he has held since 1985. McConnell is in his seventh Senate term and is the long ...

in favor of Kavanaugh's confirmation, Katyal praised Kavanaugh's "credentials ndhardworking nature", and described his "mentoring and guidance" of female law clerks as "a model for all of us in the legal profession". Katyal has also called Kavanaugh "incredibly likable".

Honors and awards

The US Justice Department awarded Katyal the Edmund Randolph Award, the highest honor the department can bestow on a civilian. The ''

National Law Journal ''The National Law Journal'' (NLJ) is an American legal periodical founded in 1978. The NLJ was created by Jerry Finkelstein, who envisioned it as a "sibling newspaper" of the ''New York Law Journal''. Originally a tabloid-sized weekly new ...

'' named Katyal its runner-up for "Lawyer of the Year" in 2006 and in 2004 awarded him its Pro Bono award. ''

American Lawyer ''The American Lawyer'' is a monthly legal magazine and website published by ALM Media. The periodical and its parent company, ALM (then American Lawyer Media), were founded in 1979 by Steven Brill.Washingtonian Magazine ''Washingtonian'' is a monthly magazine distributed in the Washington, D.C. area, with a focus on local feature journalism, guide book-style articles, real estate, and politics. Founded in 1965 by Laughlin Phillips and Robert J. Myers, it descr ...

'' named him one of the 30 best living Supreme Court advocates.

Personal life

Katyal is married to Joanna Rosen, a physician. His brother-in-law is Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the

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. His sister

Sonia Katyal Sonia Katyal is an American legal scholar, professor, and associate dean of faculty development and research at UC Berkeley School of Law. Before joining Berkeley, Katyal was Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law at Fordham University School of ...

is the Chancellor's Professor of Law and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at

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. Katyal attended Burning Man 2023, during which heavy rainfall caused flash flooding. He hiked six miles in the mud to get out of the festival, which he called "incredibly harrowing".

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