Benjamin Wittes
member of the Task Force on National Security and Law

Benjamin Wittes is a fellow and research director in public law at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror (Penguin Press, 2008), Starr: A Reassessment (Yale University Press, 2002), and Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times (Rowman & Littlefield and the Hoover Institution Press, 2006). He is a columnist for the New Republic online and a contributing editor for the Atlantic Monthly. Between 1997 and 2006 he served as an editorial writer for the Washington Post specializing in legal affairs. Wittes also covered the Justice Department and federal regulatory agencies as a reporter and news editor at Legal Times. His writing has appeared in a wide range of journals and magazines, including Slate, the New Republic, the Wilson Quarterly, the Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and First Things. Wittes graduated from Oberlin College.