Speaker Biographies 

Bradford A. Berenson is a partner at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in Washington, D.C. He joined Sidley in 1993 and divides his time between the firm’s white-collar and appellate litigation groups. In 2001, Mr. Berenson was appointed by President George W. Bush as associate White House counsel. During his two-year tenure in the White House, he handled issues including the USA Patriot Act, the military order authorizing the use of military commissions, detainee policy and antiterrorism litigation, presidential action against terrorist financing, and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Berenson has provided commentary on legal matters in the mainstream media, publishing articles in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Times and making appearances on news and public affairs programming on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, and Fox News Channel. Prior to joining Sidley, Mr. Berenson clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Daniel Collins is a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles. Mr. Collins’s practice focuses on appellate litigation and complex civil litigation. He has represented a wide variety of clients in numerous appellate matters in the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the California appellate courts. Mr. Collins has also argued before the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Mr. Collins served as an associate deputy attorney general and chief privacy officer in the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Collins also worked on a number of matters relating to the war on terror, including the establishment of a terrorist screening center. From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Collins was an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in 1996, Mr. Collins served three-and-a-half years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the criminal division of the Office of the United States Attorney in Los Angeles, prosecuting more than sixty criminal cases. Mr. Collins clerked for Justice Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jeremy Rabkin is a professor of government at Cornell University, where he teaches constitutional law, international law, and the history of political thought. He is also a member of the Board of Academic Advisors at AEI. Mr. Rabkin focuses on issues of sovereignty and international law. His recent publications include Law Without Nations? (Princeton University Press, 2005), The Case for Sovereignty: Why the World Should Welcome American Independence (AEI Press, 2004), and Why Sovereignty Matters (AEI Press, 1998). His scholarly work has appeared in journals of law and political theory and his essays have appeared in such publications as The Weekly Standard, The National Interest, and National Review. He has lectured in London, Canberra, Beijing, Brussels, Jerusalem, and numerous forums in the United States, and has testified before both houses of Congress.

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