Prof. Martin S. Lederman

Professor Lederman has taught at the Georgetown University Law Center since 2005, with an emphasis on constitutional law; separation of powers; the law of religion; national security topics; and executive branch lawyering. He is the Senior Fellow of the Supreme Court Institute at the Law Center. He has published articles on, inter alia, Congress’s authority to regulate the Commander in Chief’s conduct of war; the constitutionality of wartime military courts; and the law of religion. He also contributes regularly to Just Security, Balkinization and other blogs and periodicals, writing principally on issues relating to constitutional law, the Supreme Court, war powers, and religion and the law. Professor Lederman was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel from 2009 to 2010 and again from 2021 to 2023. He served as law clerk to Chief Judge Jack B. Weinstein on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and to Judge Frank M. Coffin on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.