Lederman is an associate professor of law at the
Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches courses in constitutional law, separation of powers, and executive branch lawyering. When not serving in government, he has been a regular contributor to the
weblogs SCOTUSblog and
Balkinization. His blogging and scholarship focuses on matters related to
executive power,
detention,
interrogation,
civil liberties, and
torture. Lederman was formerly an attorney at
Bredhoff & Kaiser, where his practice consisted principally of federal litigation, including appeals on behalf of labor unions, employees and pension funds, with particular emphasis on constitutional law, labor law,
civil rights,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and employment law. He graduated from
University of Michigan and
Yale Law School. He served as law clerk to then-Chief Judge
Jack B. Weinstein, on the United States
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. In November 2020, Lederman was named a volunteer member of the
Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the
United States Department of Justice. In early 2021, Lederman left Georgetown Law to join the Biden administration in the OLC as Deputy Assistant Attorney General. This was his third time serving at the OLC, where he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General from 2009 to 2010 and an Attorney Advisor from 1994 to 2002. == References ==