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On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court sided with him by a 5-3 vote, finding that President Bush's tribunals violated the constitutional separation of powers, domestic military law, and international law. As former Solicitor General and Duke law professor Walter Dellinger put it "Hamdan is simply the most important decision on presidential power and the rule of law ever. Ever." The New York Times' Linda Greenhouse wrote it was "a historic event, a defining moment in the ever-shifting balance of power among branches of government that ranked with the court's order to President Richard M. Nixon in 1974 to turn over the Watergate tapes, or with the court's rejection of President Harry S. Truman's seizing of the nation's steel mills." The Washington Post called it "a huge victory for fundamental American values -- and one that will dramatically aid in putting the war against terrorism on a sound legal basis."

Katyal is a dynamic speaker who represented uniformed men and women in the Armed Services who challenged the Guantanamo policy. An expert in national security law, the American Constitution, the Geneva Conventions, and the role of the President and Congress post 9-11, Katyal forged a worldwide coalition of support for his challenge to the Guantanamo policy, including 422 members of the European and British Parliaments and several former Generals and Admirals of the United States Armed Forces, all of whom have publicly supported his work. An expert in matters of constitutional law, particularly the role of the President and Congress in time of war and theories of constitutional interpretation, Katyal has embraced his theoretical work as the platform for practical consequences in the federal courts.

Katyal's second set of interests lies in crime, and particularly computer crime. He has written and spoke widely about the need to shift to a model of crime prevention, instead of crime prosecution after the fact. Employing a diversity of techniques derived from urban planning, architecture, economics, sociology, and psychology, Katyal has pioneered innovative ways to prevent criminal activity.

Katyal previously served as National Security Adviser in the U.S. Justice Department and was commissioned by President Clinton to write a report on the need for more legal pro bono work. He also served as Vice President Al Gore's co-counsel in the Supreme Court election dispute of 2000, and represented the Deans of most major private law schools in the University of Michigan affirmative-action case that the Supreme Court decided last year. (Katyal has written widely on affirmative action as well.)

Katyal clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as well as Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He attended Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. His Articles have appeared in virtually every major law review and newspaper in America. Katyal recently won the 2004 National Law Journal pro bono award for his Guantanamo work.

Katyal has appeared on every major American nightly news program, as well as in other venues, such as the Colbert Report.

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