Philip Heymann
Philip B. Heymann (born October 30, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)[1] is a former Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration and currently a law professor at Harvard Law School.[2] He was an active critic of the George W. Bush administration, particularly on its warrantless domestic spying program.
He is a 1950 graduate of Pittsburgh's Shady Side Academy. In 1954 he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key Society. He is also a graduate of Harvard Law School.
Heymann was formerly a Watergate scandal prosecutor, and compiled the National Football League report on the sexual harassment of female sportswriter Lisa Olson.[3]
Heymann was co-chairman of the Constitution Project's bipartisan Sentencing Committee.
He is the father of Assistant US Attorney Stephen Heymann and is the author of the books Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy For A Democratic Society and Terrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning without War, both published by MIT Press.
References
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QigcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=81cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3138%2C4489793
- ↑ Harvard biography page
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