Aditya Bamzai, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia, was appointed this week by President Donald Trump to an independent agency that ensures privacy and civil liberties aren’t infringed upon with counter-terrorism methods.
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was founded in 2004, shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11. It was created by the 9/11 Commission to protect individual rights and to guard against abuse of power. Bamzai was nominated to fill the remainder of a six-year term, ending on January 29, 2020.
Some personal news. https://t.co/gw4wosSrFL
— Aditya Bamzai (@adityabamzai) August 8, 2018
At the University of Virginia, Bamzai teaches courses on civil procedure, federal courts, national security and computer crime. He joined the university’s faculty as an associate professor in June 2016. His work has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the George Washington University Law Review and the Missouri Law Review, among other journals.
Prior to teaching at the University of Virginia, Bamzai clerked for late Justice Antonin Scalia and served as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and for for its National Security Division. He was also the editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review in 2004, and received a B.A. from Yale University in 2000.
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