Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal is the faculty director. Geltzer, the executive director, is a former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council. Mary McCord, the institute’s senior litigator, is a former acting assistant attorney general and former principal deputy assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department.
The institute recently filed an amicus brief in O’Donnell v. Harris County, a federal class action challenging the practice of detaining misdemeanor defendants before trial based on their inability to pay money bail. And the institute is supporting the plaintiffs in City of El Cenizo v. Texas, a challenge to a state law penalizing “sanctuary” cities.
