Philip Heymann

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Philip B. Heymann (born October 30, 1932) is a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and currently a law professor at Harvard Law School. He has been known as an active critic of the George W. Bush administration, particularly on its warrantless domestic spying program.

Heymann was formerly a Watergate scandal prosecutor, and compiled the National Football League report on the sexual harassment of female sportswriter Lisa Olson.[1]

Heymann was co-chairman of the Constitution Project's bipartisan Sentencing Committee.

He is also the author of the book Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy For A Democratic Society published by MIT Press.

In 1954 he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key Society.