David Cole is the Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law, where he teaches constitutional law, national security, and criminal justice. In January 2017 he will become the National Legal Director of the ACLU. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and an award-winning author or editor of ten books, including Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law, published in 2016, and No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the Criminal Justice System, named best nonfiction book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review. He has litigated several significant constitutional cases in the Supreme Court, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to flagburning. He has received many awards for his human rights advocacy, including the inaugural Norman Dorsen Presidential Prize from the ACLU for lifetime commitment to civil liberties.