Deborah Pearlstein is director of the Princeton Program in Law and Public Policy and Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the U.S. Constitution, international law, democracy, and national security.

Pearlstein is the author of Losing the Law, forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Her scholarship has appeared in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Before joining Princeton, she served as founding director of the Law and Security Program at Human Rights First. 

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, she clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Justice Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.