Daniel Dew directs Pacific Legal Foundation’s legal policy efforts. The legal policy team fights for individual liberty in the other two branches of government by finding principled solutions to complex problems.
Daniel has led numerous successful public policy campaigns, including home equity theft reform, judicial bias reform, emergency powers reform, and prior to his time at PLF, civil asset forfeiture reform, sentencing reform, and removing government-imposed barriers to employment.
Before joining PLF, Daniel was a legal fellow at The Buckeye Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and a visiting legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
Daniel served on the Ohio Supreme Court’s Task Force to Examine Ohio’s Bail System, and Ohio’s Justice Reinvestment 2.0 Ad Hoc Committee. He has also served as president of the Columbus, Ohio lawyers chapter of the Federalist Society, and chaired the Ohio State Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Committee.
He earned his law degree from Cleveland Marshall College of Law and his undergraduate degree from Utah State University.
When he’s not battling bureaucrats, Daniel coaches baseball, trains for marathons (very slowly), is constantly disappointed by Cleveland sports teams, and keeps busy with his wife, Amanda, and their four children.
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Bail: The Landscape in Ohio & Visions for the Future
Ohio State Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar -- Ohio State55 West 12th Avenue
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Ohio State Student Chapter
The Michael E. Moritz College of Law55 W 12th Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Conservative Values in Criminal Justice Reform
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J. Reuben Clark Law School – Room 205341 E. Campus Dr.
Provo, UT 84602
Panel Discussion on Ohio Issue 1
Capital Student Chapter
Capital University Law School303 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215
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