Career
Herman teaches constitutional law and criminal procedure,seminars on law and literature,and terrorism and civil liberties, [7] at Brooklyn Law School where she is the inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Professor of Law. [8]
She began working for the ACLU as an intern in law school. [1] When she was elected president,Herman was the organization's general counsel and had served on its board for 20 years. [1] [3]
Herman's book Taking Liberties:the War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy was published by Oxford University Press in October 2011, [9] and won the 2012 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. [10]
Herman has appeared as a guest on NPR,PBS,C-SPAN,NBC News,and MSNBC. She has written opinion columns for The New York Times ,Time, Newsday ,and HuffPost . [11] [12] [13] [14]
In 2019,Herman was named to Crain's New York Business biennial list of the "Most Powerful Women in New York". [15]
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