Yael Bromberg

Yael Bromberg is a constitutional rights attorney with over twenty years of experience in community organizing, advocacy, and campaigns. She counsels and represents individuals, organizations, political candidates, and unions in state and federal courts across the country. Her docket includes election law, voting rights, free speech, civil rights, ethics, and labor cases and projects. In addition to serving as principal of Bromberg Law LLC, she is of counsel to labor law firm Weissman & Mintz LLC. Previously, she served as Chief Counsel for Voting Rights for The Andrew Goodman Foundation.. She has worked in the national headquarters of good government watchdog Common Cause and clerked with the Honorable Dickinson R. Debevoise in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. A national expert on voting rights, Bromberg’s research and teaching focuses on democracy law, constitutional law, and the evolution of rights, with an emphasis on the Twenty-Sixth Amendment. Bromberg’s writings include a forthcoming book, Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses. She previously wrote on the history and unfulfilled promise of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment in articles published by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and the Rutgers Law Review. She is also the architect of the Youth Voting Rights Act, comprehensive legislation to enforce the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, introduced in Congress by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Nikema Williams. Bromberg teaches Election Law & the Political Process at American University Washington College of Law. She formerly taught law and supervised litigation in the Georgetown University Law Center Civil Rights Clinic and Voting Rights Institute, and at her alma mater, Rutgers Law School, where she taught election law and supervised litigation in the International Human Rights Clinic. Her ongoing academic collaborations include engagements with The Harvard Kennedy School William Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice, and a Mellon Foundation-supported research curricular project premised on her scholarship, engaging and teaching with history and political science faculty from Bard College and three Historically Black Colleges and Universities which have served as sites for legal precedent contributing to the evolution of the right to vote: Tuskegee University, Prairie View Texas A&M University, and North Carolina A&T University. She is also a Visiting Associate with the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Bromberg was recently recognized for her precedential federal litigations on behalf of Senator-elect Andy Kim and New Jersey Working Families to reform the primary ballot in New Jersey. She was named NJ Attorney of the Year (2024) by NJ Globe and recognized on several state power lists, receiving the first inaugural Reclaiming Our Democracy award by NJ Citizen Action. She has an LL.M., with distinction, Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., Rutgers Law School, and B.A.s, Douglass College (Applied Environmental Science, Political Science).