Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American lawyer and academic. He is a partner at
Hogan Lovells and the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at
Georgetown University Law Center.
[2][3] During the
Obama Administration, Katyal served as Acting
Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010
[4] until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served as an attorney in the Solicitor General's office, and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the
U.S. Justice Department.
Katyal has argued more
Supreme Court cases than any other
minority lawyer in American history.
[5] He is a self-described "extremist centrist".[6]