Speaker Biographies
March 3, 2004
Brad Berenson is an AEI adjunct fellow and a litigator in the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley, Austin, Brown, and Wood whose practice focuses on investigations by government agencies and congressional committees and other civil or constitutional matters that present unusual legal, public relations, or political risks. Mr. Berenson has clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and served as assistant counsel to the president of the United States from 2001 to 2003, where he dealt specifically with the USA Patriot Act, the Military Order authorizing the use of military commissions, detainee policy, and anti-terrorism litigation, as well as the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Berenson has also published many articles dealing with the Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution. In addition to his formal professional accomplishments, Mr. Berenson has provided legal commentary for the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Times and has appeared on television on many occasions.
David Frum is the Reader’s Digest Resident Fellow at the AEI and writes a daily column for National Review Online. He is the author of the national bestseller, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, and coauthor with Richard Perle of
An End to Evil: What’s Next in the War on Terror. He is a panelist on National Public Radio’s nationally syndicated program, Left, Right, and Center, and contributes frequently to the editorial pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, as well as to Great Britain’s Daily Telegraph and Canada’s National Post. From January 2001 to February 2002, Mr. Frum was special assistant to President Bush for economic speechwriting. His other books include Dead Right (1994), What’s Right (1997), and his history of the 1970s titled How We Got Here (2000). In 1996, the Wall Street Journal acclaimed him as “one of the leading political commentators of his generation” and in 2001, Judge Richard Posner’s study of public intellectuals listed Frum as one of the 100 most influential minds in the United States.
Richard Klingler is an AEI adjunct fellow and a partner at the law offices of Sidley, Austin, Brown, and Wood, specializing in appellate litigation, regulatory proceedings, and related advisory services, particularly for telecommunications, media, and financial services clients. Mr. Klingler has recently served as internal counsel for a large telecommunications firm before re-joining Sidley, Austin, Brown, and Wood. In addition to his legal accomplishments, Mr. Klingler was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution where he wrote and published his book The New Information Industry: Regulatory Challenges and the First Amendment in 1996. Mr. Klingler was a clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court and formerly served as chief editor of the Stanford Law Review.
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