CLE Seminar Speaker

Aaron Caplan

Aaron Caplan is a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.

The ACLU is dedicated to the protection of individual freedoms, especially those enshrined in the Bill of Rights. These include freedom of speech, religion, and association, the right to due process and equal protection of the laws, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, rights of the accused and of prisoners, and voting rights, among others.

As an ACLU attorney, Mr. Caplan represents clients directly in constitutional litigation, represents the ACLU itself as amicus curiae, advises the organization itself on legal questions, provides advice and counseling to members of the public and attorneys with civil liberties questions, and speaks with the press.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1986) and the University of Michigan Law School (J.D. 1991). Before joining the ACLU in June 1998, he clerked for Judge Betty Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1991-92) and practiced in the general litigation department at Perkins Coie, where his practice included intellectual property, commercial litigation, habeas corpus, and immigration law (1992-1998).