Stuart Delery

Stuart Delery is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He most recently served as Counsel to the President (White House Counsel) from 2022-23 and as Deputy Counsel to the President from 2021-22. As White House Counsel, Delery advised the President on the full range of constitutional, statutory, and regulatory legal issues, including on questions of presidential authority, domestic policy, national security, and foreign affairs. Earlier in his career, Delery was the Acting Associate Attorney General of the United States, the third-ranking position at the U.S. Department of Justice and part of the senior team responsible for the overall management of the Department. He also served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, where he oversaw most of the federal government’s civil litigation and personally argued appeals involving the unconstitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, interpretation of the Affordable Care Act and the legality of the National Security Agency’s data collection programs. Delery has been a partner at two international law firms, where his practice focused on representing corporations and individuals in high-stakes litigation and investigations that involve the federal government across the spectrum of regulatory litigation and enforcement. He maintained an active pro bono practice, focused recently on LGBTQ rights and immigration issues.