Elizabeth is Constitutional Accountability Center’s President. From 2008-2016, she served as CAC's Chief Counsel, representing the Center as well as clients including preeminent constitutional scholars and historians, state and local government organizations, and groups such as the League of Women Voters and the AARP. She frequently participates in Supreme Court litigation and her legal brief writing has been recognized as “exemplary” by the Green Bag Almanac & Reader. Elizabeth has also argued several important cases in the federal courts of appeals on a range of issues, including immigration law, habeas corpus, and sovereign immunity. She joined CAC from private practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in San Francisco, where she was an attorney working with former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan in the firm’s Supreme Court/appellate practice. Previously, Elizabeth was a supervising attorney and teaching fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center appellate litigation clinic, a law clerk for Judge James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and a lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a law firm in Washington. She has appeared as a legal expert for NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, Fox News, the BBC, Current TV, and NPR, among other outlets. Elizabeth has been quoted extensively in the print media and is a regular contributor to the ABA’s Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases. Her writings have appeared in The New York Times, Reuters, USA Today, Politico, CNN.com, Slate, and on numerous political and legal blogs, such as Huffington Post, SCOTUSblog, and ACSblog. She has also published in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, Syracuse Law Review, The Cato Institute’s Supreme Court Review, and the Yale Journal of International Law. Elizabeth is a graduate of Yale Law School.
Reconstructing First Principles: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Constitution
2018 National Student Symposium
Hart Auditorium, Georgetown University Law Center600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
The First Amendment and Campus Speech
2018 Annual Western Chapters Conference
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation40 Presidential Drive
Simi Valley, CA 93065
Fifth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
Second Annual Executive Branch Review Conference
The Mayflower Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
2013 National Lawyers Convention
Textualism and the Role of Judges
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Liberty Month Revisited: Federalism - Striking the Balance
This month we are sharing a selection of paired pieces from The Federalist Society's Liberty...
Reconstructing First Principles: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Constitution
2018 National Student Symposium
The Fourteenth Amendment dramatically changed constitutional law. How are we to understand these changes? Did...
Reconstructing First Principles: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Constitution
2018 National Student Symposium
The Fourteenth Amendment dramatically changed constitutional law. How are we to understand these changes? Did...
The First Amendment and Campus Speech
2018 Annual Western Chapters Conference
Free speech on college campuses has been under attack in recent years, increasingly from students...
The First Amendment and Campus Speech
2018 Annual Western Chapters Conference
Free speech on college campuses has been under attack in recent years, increasingly from students...