Impact at CLIPI
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Guttentag joined CLIPI as a fellow and then as a staff attorney. During his time at CLIPI, he focused on employment discrimination, police practices, freedom of speech, and environmental protection. Notably, he worked on the Ballona Wetlands case which preserved Los Angeles' last remaining significant coastal marsh and the Sundance case, which reshaped the legal rights of individuals arrested for public inebriation in Los Angeles.
After his tenure at CLIPI, Guttentag founded and directed the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, leading it to become the nation’s premier litigation and advocacy program dedicated to advancing the constitutional and civil rights of immigrants. He also served in senior policy positions in both the Obama and Biden administrations, including as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security and Senior Counselor for Immigration Policy to the Deputy Attorney General. He has been a professor at both Yale and Stanford law schools. He is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts in immigration law and the rights of non-citizens.
