Philip Heymann

Who is Philip Heymann?

Philip B. Heymann is a former Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration and currently a law professor at Harvard Law School. He was an active critic of the George W. Bush administration, particularly on its warrantless domestic spying program.

In 1954 he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key Society. He is also a graduate of Harvard Law School.

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

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

He is the father of Assistant US Attorney Stephen Heymann and is the author of the books Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy For A Democratic Society and Terrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning without War, both published by MIT Press.