{"id":3580,"date":"2023-08-24T13:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/?page_id=3580"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:15:14","slug":"william-powell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/our-team\/william-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"William Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3578 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-375x500.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-555x740.jpeg 555w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-735x980.jpeg 735w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-915x1220.jpeg 915w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-1080x1440.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-500x667.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-740x987.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-980x1307.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/Powell-Headshot-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>William Powell is Senior Counsel at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. Before joining the Institute, he served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice, where he helped litigate cases in the Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government.\u00a0 During the fellowship, he also argued a case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.\u00a0 William previously served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Judge Randolph D. Moss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.\u00a0 Before his clerkships, William served as a legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, where he provided pro bono legal services to journalists and litigated press-freedom cases in state and federal courts.<\/p>\n<p>William received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was a notes editor on the Yale Law Journal, a Coker Fellow, and a member of the capital punishment clinic.\u00a0 Before law school, William worked for several years as a journalist.\u00a0 He wrote magazine stories about the Ferguson protests, the death penalty, and homelessness, among many other topics.\u00a0 He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Powell is Senior Counsel at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. 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