About
Ben is Counsel on the House Judiciary Committee’s Democratic staff, focusing on executive branch oversight. He was previously an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
Before that, Ben was a Bristow Fellow in the Solicitor General’s office at the U.S. Department of Justice. While there, he successfully briefed and argued a case in a federal court of appeals. Ben earlier clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Ben’s academic writings explore the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, and other public law topics.
Additional resources (under construction, pardon the mess!):
House Judiciary: Legistorm, link, CRS, CRS, CRS, CRS, linkedin, linkedin.
Paul, Weiss: Zafirov, brief, filing, brief, TQL, litigators, litigators, brief, Pro Bono,Pro Bono, Pro Bono.
Department of Justice: link, link, link, link, link.
Harvard Law School: FVRA paper, filing citation, discussion, discussion, citation (copyright), citation (EPU), ACUS, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, tweet, cite, cite, Safelite, cite, cite, cite. Awards: HLSprofile, post, Cudahy, ABA, ABA, Motley. BLAG paper: PDF, Illinois, citation (Brookings), cite (Renan), award, prizes, SSRN, FVRA, SSRN author page, SSRN, BLAG, cite, cite, cite, cite, award, award, cite, JREG, Yale, ACUS, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, JOL, Google Scholar, PDF, cite, HLR, Academia, link.
Research: Renan, Fallon, Two, Bodies, Settlement, Counterrev, Counterrev, chimerical, facial challenges, Renan, chimerical, Renan, Renan.
Lawfare: Succession, response, response, response, response, citation, cite, cite, cite, page, post, post, Hoover, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite, cite.
Supreme Court reform: report, report, report, Doerfler, Doerfler, report, report, Doerfler.
Earlier: Presidential Scholar, White House, merit, White House, link.
Lawyer Profiles: avvo, DC Bar, Martindale.
Personal: obituary, Brennan, family, family, family, family, family, family, Watson, Brown Daily Herald, research, research, Joslin, family, Watson, Watson, Watson, HLS.