Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittesis a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the editor of Legislating the War on Terror: An Agenda for Reform(Brookings, 2009) and the author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror (Penguin, 2008), Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times(Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), and Starr: A Reassessment(Yale, 2002). Between 1997 and 2006, he served as an editorial writer for the Washington Post specializing in legal affairs. His writing has also appeared in a wide range of journals and magazines.