Dan Greenberg is the General Counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His research focuses on civil asset forfeiture and regulatory reform. He served as senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2017-2021. From 2011-2017, he was president of the Advance Arkansas Institute, a nonprofit research and educational organization.
He has been an adjunct professor of law and political science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock as well as senior counsel for the Center for Class Action Fairness. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2007-2011, and on the Pulaski County Quorum Court for four years prior to that. As a state legislator, he received National Review’s “2010 Challenge / Best Conservative Idea” award for his work on federalism issues as well as the Arkansas Press Association’s Freedom of Information Award for his work on First Amendment issues.
During the 1990s, he served as a congressional staffer for Congressman Jay Dickey and Tim Hutchinson before moving to the Heritage Foundation and then to the Cato Institute. He has published extensively on government and public policy in newspapers, magazines and academic journals, including the New York Times, National Review, the Monist, the John Marshall Law Review, and the Ohio State Law Journal. He holds degrees from Brown University, Bowling Green State University, and UALR’s Bowen School of Law.
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News
Supreme Court hears challenge to regulator deference: CEI analysis
Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that could upend deference judges give to regulators over citizens. Competitive Enterprise Institute attorneys…
Supreme Court agrees to hear Moore v. U.S., consider constitutionality of tax on unrealized income
The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear arguments in Moore v. U.S., a challenge to a provision of the 2017 Tax Cuts…
New CEI report proposes bold reforms to restore Constitution’s constraints on government power
A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report proposes significant reforms aimed at restoring the U.S. Constitution’s separation and balance of powers that are vital to…
Blog
Charlotte-area police departments are rolling in forfeiture funds
- By: Dan Greenberg
I’ve always loved William Blake’s poem “Auguries of Innocence,” which begins by asking the reader “To see a World in a Grain of Sand.”…
The catastrophic consequences of COVID for California constitutional government
- By: Dan Greenberg
COVID-19 hit California hard. The effects of COVID on California’s population were terrible, and the government policies that California imposed on its citizens may have…
Three Supreme Court justices have gone public about the fundamental unfairness of civil forfeiture
- By: Dan Greenberg
Yesterday, I was able to get out of the office to watch the oral argument in Culley v. Marshall before the Supreme Court of…
Op-Eds/Articles
The Washington Examiner
A dishwasher decision that is great news for consumers
- By: Dan Greenberg
A recent court ruling set new limits on the power of federal bureaucrats to impose unwanted mandates on consumer appliances. In a Jan.
Frederick News Post
A new proposal for constitutional restoration
Now that Congress has gotten past debt-ceiling drama, next up is wrangling the nation’s budget for the coming year. A budget is about policy and…
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Seriously bad bill
- By: Dan Greenberg
I admit it: I’m an Arkansas General Assembly junkie. Even though I haven’t been a state legislator for more than a decade, I still watch…
Studies
The World Needs More Lawyers
- By: Dan Greenberg
This study was originally authored for the Regulatory Transparency Project at The Federalist Society By Shoshana Weissmann, Daniel Greenberg, Luke Wake, Braden Boucek and Jonathan…
Constitutional Restoration: How to rebuild the separation of powers
Introduction A specter is haunting America—the specter of unlimited government. A central feature of our Constitution is that it restricts the federal government’s powers. These…
Five Myths of Civil Forfeiture
- By: Dan Greenberg
Executive Summary Every year, federal, state, and local government agents take—and permanently keep—billions of dollars of Americans’ property through civil forfeiture. The practice of civil…
Citations
Washington Examiner
A dishwasher decision that is great news for consumers
- By: Dan Greenberg
Competitive Enterprise Institute was cited in the Washington Examiner with a reemergence of a 2018 petition: By 2018, however, a consumer outcry along with…
Politico
Courts, tax bills and impeachment — oh, my
- By: Dan Greenberg
CEI’s coming Supreme Court Case is cited in Politico’s newsletter: SO, A LOT GOING ON: It’s now officially December, which so frequently is crunch time here…
Daily Caller
The Supreme Court Term Begins This Week. Here Are The Cases You Need To Watch.
- By: Dan Greenberg
Daily Caller cites CEI’s Dan Greenberg on a Supreme Court case: “A century of precedent shows that – in order to be taxed –…
Podcast Episodes
Unconstitutional Taxation with Dan Greenberg
In episode 9, we talk about Adam Smith’s 300th birthday, new research on state government responses to Covid, the real problem behind baby formula bottlenecks,...