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Yael Bromberg

Yael Bromberg is the Special Counsel and Strategic Advisor for The Andrew Goodman Foundation (outside counsel), and Principal of Bromberg Law LLC. Bromberg has litigated in state and federal courts across the country on a range of democracy cases.

She serves as a Lecturer at Rutgers Law School, where she teaches Election Law & the Political Process and supervises litigation in the Rutgers International Human Rights Clinic, and is a Visiting Associate with the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She currently works with the Harvard Kennedy School's William Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice on a youth voting rights project, and serves on the advisory council for American Promise, an organization dedicated to ending big money in our political system. She previously worked in the Washington, D.C. headquarters of Common Cause, and taught and supervised litigation in Georgetown University Law Center’s Civil Rights Clinic and Voting Rights Institute.

Her prior experiences include a clerkship with the Honorable Dickinson R. Debevoise in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Bromberg is a graduate of Douglass College and Rutgers School of Law-Newark, where she served as a Kinoy/Stavis Fellow in the Rutgers Constitutional Rights Clinic and received upon graduation the Eli Jarmel Memorial Award for greatest interest and proficiency in public interest law. In 2015, she received the Eric Neisser Public Service Alumni Award in recognition of her work in democracy law, and is the youngest recipient of the award.

Bromberg’s scholarship, “Youth Voting Rights and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment,” published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law in 2018, has been heralded as a groundbreaking study. As faculty advisor with the Rutgers University Law Review, she facilitated the recent publication of the first-ever legal volume dedicated to the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and authored the Introductory article, "The Future Is Unwritten: Reclaiming the Twenty-Sixth Amendment."

Bromberg is barred in New Jersey, New York, and the District of Columbia.