Education
Harvard Law School; Antioch University.
Harvard Law School; Antioch University.
Before becoming a professor, he clerked for Judge Frank M. Coffin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Professor Brownstein is well known for his scholarship on the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. He has frequently commented on the intersection of religion and civil liberties with regard to marriage equality and Proposition 8.
He serves on the legal committee of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Psychology from Antioch College in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1977.