Visiting Professor of Law. Professor Litman received an A.B. from Harvard
University and a J.D. from University of California, Berkeley, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He clerked for
Judge Abner Mikva of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,
Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court, and Justice
Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. He thereafter
worked in government, serving as an assistant United States attorney in the
Northern District of California, a deputy assistant attorney general in
Washington, D.C., and, following nomination by the president and confirmation by
the U.S. Senate, as United States attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In addition to his teaching at Rutgers, he has taught at Princeton
University, the Georgetown Law Center, University of Pittsburgh Law
School, the University of California (Boalt Hall), and the Department of
Justice Advocacy Institute; and published a number of articles on
constitutional law and prosecutorial policy. He is also a practitioner
specializing in constitutional law, the False Claims Act, and white-collar
criminal defense, and he has litigated in courts around the country, from state
trial courts to the United States Supreme Court.
