Jonathan D. Schwartz is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and General Counsel at the Brookings Institution. He manages Brookings’ legal functions and advises its trustees, executive leadership, and staff. He has managed legal and other functions at a number of major corporations, including as Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer at Univision Communications, Inc., Managing Director & General Counsel at J.P. Morgan’s Investment Bank, Executive Vice President & General Counsel at Cablevision, and Vice President and General Counsel at Napster, Inc. From 1995 to 1999, Schwartz served as a senior advisor to the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. During that time, he taught a seminar at Harvard University's Institute of Politics titled "Under the Gun: Justice in a Partisan Era." He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1991 to 1995. Schwartz earned a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar. He clerked for the Honorable Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the Honorable Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
