Dana Berliner is the Senior Vice President and Litigation Director at the Institute for Justice (IJ), where she joined in 1994 as a lawyer. She holds a B.A. in psychology and a J.D. from Yale University, where she was a member of the Yale Law Journal. Berliner litigates property rights, economic liberty, and constitutional cases in federal and state courts. She authored key reports on eminent domain abuse, including Public Power, Private Gain (2003) and Opening the Floodgates: Eminent Domain Abuse in the Post-Kelo World, and has published articles in The Yale Law Journal Forum, Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, and The Practical Real Estate Lawyer. She has filed amicus briefs on eminent domain in over ten states and taught continuing legal education classes on the topic. Notable cases include serving as co-lead counsel for Susette Kelo in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Kelo v. City of New London (2005), lead counsel for Bill Brody in Brody v. Village of Port Chester (New York), and representing the Community Youth and Athletic Center against eminent domain by National City, California (2015).