Larry Schwartztol

Larry Schwartztol is Counsel at Protect Democracy, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to strengthening and defending our democratic laws, norms, and institutions. Before joining Protect Democracy, he was Executive Director of the Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School, a research and advocacy center focused on criminal justice reform. Prior to that, Larry spent nearly eight years as an attorney with the national office of the ACLU. During that time, he litigated cases involving race discrimination, economic justice, police practices, educational equity, foreign intelligence surveillance, ideological exclusion of foreign scholars, and the government’s search authority at airports and the U.S. border. Larry was also a Liman Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. He clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Larry graduated from Yale Law School and received his B.A. from the University of Chicago.