Biography

Education

• AB, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1992
• JD, American University, Washington College of Law, 1995

Employment

• Law Clerk, Honorable Patricia M. Wald, 1995—1996
• Associate, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, 1996—1997
• Associate, Boies & Schiller, 1997—1999
• Partner, Goldstein & Howe, PC, 1999—2006
• Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, 2006—Present

Courses

• Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

In the News

• Two cases may change the way teens are punished
  CNN.com - Justice, November 08, 2009
• The 50 Most Powerful People In D.C.
  GQ Magazine, November 01, 2009
• Justices Take On Potentially Landmark Gun Rights Cases
  CNN.com/crime, September 30, 2009
• Pocket Docket: Supreme Court's New Season
  The Wall Street Journal, September 29, 2009
• Stanford Law Clinic Shakes Up Supreme Court Bar
  Law 360, September 16, 2009

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Publications & Cases

• Tom Goldstein, At Least, It Hasn't Been War, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, July 15, 2009.
• Tom Goldstein, Sotomayor is Set: Why Her Confirmation Hearings Will be a Non-event, The New Republic.com, July 1, 2009.
• Tom Goldstein, Her Justice is Blind, New York Times, June 16, 2009, pg. A19.
• Kathleen M. Sullivan (moderator), Randy E. Barnett, Thomas C. Goldstein, Alan B. Morrison, John Payton, Deborah Pearlstein, Andrew J. Pincus Supreme Court Review, organized by the American Constitution Society, at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., July 1, 2008.
• Pamela S. Karlan, Thomas C. Goldstein, Reid H. Weingarten and Amy Howe, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari: Kay v. United States of America, No. 07- in the Supreme Court of the United States (April 9, 2008).
• Thomas C. Goldstein, Kevin K. Russell, Kassius O. Benson and Pamela S. Karlan, Reply Brief for the Petitioner: Greenlaw v. United States of America, No. 07-330 in the Supreme Court of the United States (April 8, 2008).
• Tom Goldstein, Is Death Penalty for Child Rapist Excessive, Legal Times, January 2, 2008.
• Tom Goldstein, The Next Supreme Court Justice? Daily Journal, December 20, 2007.
• Thomas Goldstein, Deception at the Supreme Court: The Upcoming Term Will Look Like a Move to the Left. Don't be Fooled, Slate.com, September 28, 2007.