Adam Klein

Adam Klein is a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute. He is also the director of the Robert Strauss Center on International Security and Law at UT Austin, and serves as a senior lecturer at the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches courses on national security, intelligence, and counterterrorism. Before joining the Strauss Center, Adam served as chairman of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the independent, bipartisan federal agency responsible for overseeing counterterrorism programs at the NSA, FBI, CIA, DHS, and other federal agencies. Previously, Adam practiced law at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, and served as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court and to (then) Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.