Brandt Goldstein

Visiting Associate Professor of Law

A 1992 graduate of Yale Law School, Professor Goldstein is the author of Storming the Court(Scribner, 2005), the true story of the suit filed by law students and human rights lawyers to free innocent Haitian refugees held by the American military at Guantanamo Bay in the early 1990s. Named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, Storming the Court is under development as a motion picture by Warner Bros. and is currently being translated into Chinese. Professor Goldstein writes on issues and trends in the law for The Wallstreet Journal (online edition), and he has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and Slate.

Professor Goldstein clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1992-93, and then practiced law as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington for four years. From 1999-2001, he served as an associate in research at Yale Law School, where he began research for Storming the Court and also co-founded Writ, an award-winning online journal of legal commentary published by FindLaw.com. Goldstein is also a coauthor, with Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, of the legal parody Me V. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman 2003). While at Yale, he was a Coker Teaching Fellow, a senior editor of The Yale Law Journal, an editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, and winner of the Benjamin Scharps Prize and the John M. Olin Prize for his study of panhandling in New Haven (later published in both the Indiana Law Review and The Yale Law Report).

Professor Goldstein is a member of the D.C. Bar. As a Visiting Associate Professor at New York Law School, he teaches Civil Procedure.