Draft:Aditya Bamzai
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Aditya Bamzai is an American legal scholar who is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He received his BA from Yale University and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School where he served as the editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review.[1]
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University of Chicago Law School (JD)
Aditya Bamzai | |
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| Occupation | Professor of Law |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (BA) University of Chicago Law School (JD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | United States constitutional law United States administrative law |
| Institutions | University of Virginia School of Law |
Bamzai clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.[2] Prior to his career in academia, Bamzai worked as an appellate attorney for the United States Department of Justice in the National Security Division. There, he argued cases before federal appeals courts, including United States v. Levenderis in the Sixth Circuit, which addressed the scope of the federal biological weapons statute, and United States v. Fokker Services B.V. in the D.C. Circuit, a case establishing that courts may not second-guess a prosecutor's decision to enter a deferred prosecution agreement with a corporate criminal defendant.[3] Before his time at the DOJ, he was a partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP.[4]
Bamzai was elected to the American Law Institute in 2022.[5] While a member of the faculty at UVA Law, Bamzai was nominated in 2018 by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed in 2019 by the United States Senate to serve as a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.[6][7] He held this position from July 2019 until January 2021.[8] In 2024, Bamzai was announced as the winner of the Federalist Society's Joseph Story Award.[9]