Jonathan Freiman is a Visiting Lecturer in Law and a Senior Schell Fellow at Yale Law School. He received his J.D. in 1998 from Yale, where he was Senior Editor of The Yale Law Journal, student director of the Lowenstein Clinic, and received the Charles Albom Award for excellence in appellate advocacy as well as litigation awards from the Florida Supreme Court and the Cuban American Bar Association. After graduation, Jonathan clerked for Judge Louis Pollak, a former Dean of Yale Law School, and then returned to Yale to serve as a Bernstein Fellow and later a Schell Fellow.  Jonathan has been selected for inclusion in the last two editions of The Best Lawyers in America (2006 & 2007) for his work as an appellate lawyer. He is also Counsel at Wiggin and Dana, where he focuses primarily on appellate litigation and transnational litigation. He has been named a new “Leader of the Law” by the Connecticut Law Tribune, which also gave him its Advocacy of the Law Award. His clients have included Jose Padilla, the Cato Institute, the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, the Government of Canada, Yale University, and a host of public and private businesses and individuals. He has spoken on legal issues in Europe, Canada, and the United States and his legal commentary has appeared often on television, radio, and in the press. He founded the National Litigation Project (NLP) of the Lowenstein Clinic in fall 2002 with Dean Harold Koh, and, since then, has directed the NLP’s litigation work in post-9/11 cases.

Education
J.D., Yale, 1998
B.A., Oberlin, 1987

Courses Taught
Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security after September 11