Burt Neuborne is an American lawyer and university professor born on January 1, 1941, in the Bronx, New York, and raised in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is the Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties at New York University School of Law and the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Neuborne has had a distinguished career in civil liberties law, serving as National Legal Director of the ACLU from 1981 to 1986, where he anchored the organization's legal program during the Reagan years. He challenged the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, worked on the Pentagon Papers case, and collaborated with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she headed the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. Additionally, he served as Special Counsel to the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1990 to 1996. At the Brennan Center, Neuborne has focused on campaign finance reform and efforts to strengthen democratic processes. He has also been principal counsel in high-profile Holocaust restitution cases against German industries, securing payments totaling $7.5 billion to victims. Recognized as one of the nation's foremost civil liberties lawyers, teachers, and scholars, Neuborne continues to teach and advocate at NYU School of Law.