Neal Katyal

Neal Katyal was born on March 12, 1970,{{cn|date=October 2023}} in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant parents originally from India.{{cite news|last1=Furlong|first1=Lisa|title=Neal Kumar Katyal '91 A litigator on arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court|url=https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/neal-kumar-katyal-91|work=Dartmouth Alumni Magazine|access-date=2019-09-25|archive-date=2019-09-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925231512/https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/neal-kumar-katyal-91|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/politico50/neal-katyal/ |title=Politico 50: Neal Katyal |website=Politico |access-date=October 9, 2023}} His mother, Pratibha, is a pediatrician and his father, Surendar, who died in 2005, was an engineer. Katyal's sister, Sonia, is also an attorney and teaches law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Neal Katyal studied at Loyola Academy, a Jesuit Catholic high school in Wilmette, Illinois. In 1991 he graduated from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity, and the Dartmouth Forensic Union.

Katyal then attended Yale Law School.{{cite web|last=Katyal|first=Neal Kumar|title=Curriculum vitae|url=http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/upload/katyal.nov2008.resumeweb2.pdf|publisher=Georgetown University Law Center|access-date=15 January 2014|archive-date=3 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903183604/http://www2.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/upload/katyal.nov2008.resumeweb2.pdf|url-status=live}} He was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom in 1995 and 1996 he published articles in law-review and political-opinion journals. After receiving his J.D. (Juris Doctor) degree in 1995, Katyal clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, then for Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court.{{Cite web|title=Neal K. Katyal|url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/neal-k-katyal/|website=law.georgetown.edu|access-date=April 26, 2023}}

President Bill Clinton commissioned Katyal to write a report on the need for more legal pro bono work.{{cite journal|title=Remarks to Representatives of the Legal Community|journal=Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents|date=20 July 1999|volume=35|issue=29|page=1430|url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-1999-07-26/pdf/WCPD-1999-07-26-Pg1432.pdf|access-date=27 June 2017|publisher=U.S. Government Publishing Office|archive-date=2010-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310200304/http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-1999-07-26/pdf/WCPD-1999-07-26-Pg1432.pdf|url-status=live}} In 1999 he drafted special counsel regulations, which guided the Mueller investigation of the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/opinion/mueller-report-trump-democrats-barr.html|title=Opinion {{!}} The Mueller Report Is Coming. Here's What to Expect.|last=Katyal|first=Neal K.|date=2019-02-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-02-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2019-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221204141/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/opinion/mueller-report-trump-democrats-barr.html|url-status=live}} He also represented Vice President Al Gore as co-counsel in Bush v. Gore, and represented the deans of most major private law schools in Grutter v. Bollinger.

While serving at the Justice Department, Katyal argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, including his successful defense (by an 8–1 decision) of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Northwest Austin v. Holder.{{cite web|url=http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/06/neal-katyals-sentimental-send-off.html|title=Neal Katyal's Sentimental Send-Off|access-date=2011-07-28|archive-date=2011-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702124414/http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/06/neal-katyals-sentimental-send-off.html|url-status=live}} Katyal also successfully argued in favor of the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, and won a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court defending former Attorney General John Ashcroft against alleged abuses of civil liberties in the war on terror in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd. Katyal is also the only head of the Solicitor General's office to argue in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.{{cite news|last1=Frankel|first1=Alison|title=Gene Case Brings Out a Big Gun|url=http://www.corpcounsel.com/id=1202484870883?|access-date=August 8, 2014|work=Corporate Counsel|date=April 1, 2011|archive-date=September 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210543/http://www.corpcounsel.com/id=1202484870883|url-status=live}}

As Acting Solicitor General, Katyal succeeded Elena Kagan, whom President Barack Obama chose to replace the retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens.[http://www.abajournal.com/news/law_prof_who_proposed_us_court_to_try_gitmo_detainees_gets_doj_nod Law Prof Who Proposed US Court to Try Gitmo Detainees Gets DOJ Nod] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125094952/http://abajournal.com/news/law_prof_who_proposed_us_court_to_try_gitmo_detainees_gets_doj_nod |date=2009-01-25 }}, ABA Journal, January 21, 2009.

On May 24, 2011, speaking as Acting Solicitor General, Katyal delivered the keynote speech at the Department of Justice's Great Hall marking Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Developing comments he had posted officially on May 20,{{cite web

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}} Katyal issued the Justice Department's first public confession of its 1942 ethics lapse in arguing the Hirabayashi and Korematsu cases in the US Supreme Court, which had resulted in upholding the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent. He called those prosecutions{{snd}}which were only vacated in the 1980s{{snd}}"blots" on the reputation of his office, which the Supreme Court explicitly considers as deserving of "special credence" when arguing cases, and "an important reminder" of the need for absolute candor in arguing the United States government's position on every case.{{cite news |last=Savage |first=David G. |title=U.S. official cites misconduct in Japanese American internment cases |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |date=May 24, 2011 |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-japanese-americans-20110525,0,3517138.story |access-date=February 3, 2012 |archive-date=June 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609193421/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-japanese-americans-20110525,0,3517138.story |url-status=live }}. Katyal also lectured at Fordham Law School concerning that decision.Fordham Law School announcement (retrieved February 3, 2012) [https://archive.today/20120712091642/http://law2.fordham.edu/ihtml/cal-2uwcp-calendar_viewitem.ihtml?idc=12611 "The Solicitor General and Confession of Error: The Hirabayashi Case" 3/08/2012]

Katyal was critical of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.Neal Kumar Katyal and Laurence Tribe, [http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/251_8op3oy2o.pdf Waging War, Deciding Guilt: Trying the Military Tribunals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329033933/http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/251_8op3oy2o.pdf |date=2015-03-29 }}, 111 Yale L.J. 1259 (2002). While teaching at Georgetown University Law Center for two decades, he was lead counsel for the Guantanamo Bay detainees in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), which held that Guantanamo military commissions set up by the George W. Bush administration to try detainees "violate both the UCMJ and the four Geneva Conventions."Neal Katyal, [http://cdn.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/katyal.pdf The Supreme Court, 2005 Term – Comment: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Legal Academy Goes to Practice], 120 Harv. L. Rev. 65 (2006). {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929025135/http://cdn.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/katyal.pdf|date=29 September 2015|title=Archived}}

Upon leaving the Obama administration, Katyal returned to Georgetown University Law Center, but also became a partner at the global law firm Hogan Lovells.{{cite web|url=https://sources.npr.org/neal-katyal|title=Neal Katyal|date=4 August 2015|access-date=9 November 2016|archive-date=10 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110173038/https://sources.npr.org/neal-katyal/|url-status=live}} He specializes in constitutional law, national security, criminal defense, and intellectual property law, as well as running the appellate practice once run by John Roberts. During law school Katyal clerked one summer at Hogan Lovells, where he worked for Roberts before Roberts became a judge.{{cite web|url=http://abovethelaw.com/2006/08/neal-katyal-the-paris-hilton-of-the-legal-elite/|title=Neal Katyal: The Paris Hilton of the Legal Elite?|first=David|last=Lat|date=August 9, 2006 |access-date=2016-11-09}}

In 2015, Katyal had a cameo in the third season of the American television series House of Cards, portraying a lawyer arguing a case in the Supreme Court .{{Cite web|last=Lat|first=David|title=From Acting Solicitor General To Acting On 'House Of Cards'|url=https://abovethelaw.com/2015/03/from-acting-solicitor-general-to-acting-on-house-of-cards/|access-date=2020-11-23|website=Above the Law|date=March 2, 2015 |language=en-US}}

In 2017, The American Lawyer magazine named Katyal its Grand Prize Litigator of the Year for 2016 and 2017.{{Cite news|title=Neal Katyal Named The Litigator of the Year by American Lawyer|language=en|work=hoganlovells.com|url=https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/news/neal-katyal-named-the-litigator-of-the-year-by-american-lawyer|access-date=2018-08-09}}

Katyal has been criticized for filing briefs taking anti-union positions in two Supreme Court cases, Janus v. AFSCME. and Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} Katyal's employer, Hogan Lovells, characterized Katyal's successes in these cases as a "major win for employers."{{Cite web|last=Kang|first=Brian Fallon, Christopher|date=2019-08-21|title=No More Corporate Lawyers on the Federal Bench|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/no-more-corporate-judges/596383/|access-date=2021-04-11|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2018-05-21|title=Hogan Lovells Scores Major Win for Employers in Supreme Court Case|url=https://www.hlemploymentblog.com/2018/05/hogan-lovells-scores-major-win-employers-supreme-court-case/|access-date=2021-04-11|website=All in a Day's Work: The Employer's Legal Guide|language=en-US|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411152318/https://www.hlemploymentblog.com/2018/05/hogan-lovells-scores-major-win-employers-supreme-court-case/|url-status=dead}}

In 2020, Katyal represented Nestlé and Cargill at the Supreme Court in Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe, a class-action suit brought by former enslaved children who were kidnapped and forced to work on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast.{{Cite web | author-link=Mark Joseph Stern|last= Stern|first=Mark Joseph|date=2020-12-01|title=Prominent Anti-Trump Attorney Asks the Supreme Court to Let Corporations off the Hook for Child Slavery|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/neal-katyal-supreme-court-nestle-cargill-child-slavery.html|access-date=2020-12-01|website=Slate Magazine|language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe, 593 U.S. ___ (2021) |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/593/19-416/ |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=Justia Law |language=en}} Katyal's argument was that Nestlé and Cargill should not be held liable under United States law for their use of child slave labor because international law does not apply to corporations. Katyal cited as an example that the company which supplied Zyklon B to the Nazis to kill Jews and other minorities in extermination camps was not indicted at the Nuremberg trials. Katyal was criticized by publications including The New Republic.{{Cite magazine|last1=Pareene|first1=Alex|last2=Noah|first2=Timothy|last3=Noah|first3=Timothy|last4=Caldwell|first4=Christopher|last5=Caldwell|first5=Christopher|last6=Bahadur|first6=Gaiutra|last7=Bahadur|first7=Gaiutra|last8=Ford|first8=Matt|last9=Ford|first9=Matt|date=2020-12-08|title=Neal Katyal and the Depravity of Big Law|magazine=The New Republic|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/160481/neal-katyal-depravity-big-law|access-date=2021-04-11|issn=0028-6583}}{{Cite web|title=Brief for Petitioner Nestlé, USA Inc.|url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-416/151727/20200831135559746_19-416%2019-453%20Nestle%20Opening%20Brief%208-31%20final.pdf}}

In 2021, Katyal represented financial giant Citigroup in their efforts to recoup a mistaken transfer of $900 million to creditors of Revlon Inc.{{Cite news|date=2021-04-09|title=Citi Lawyer Cites Mystery Bank He Says Made Even Bigger Flub|language=en|work=Bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/citi-says-it-knows-of-another-bank-making-big-payment-error|access-date=2021-04-11}} He also worked with the prosecution team in State v. Chauvin.Deanna Paul, Jacob Gershman and Joe Barrett.(22 April 2021). "The Derek Chauvin Prosecutors and Their Big Gamble". [https://www.wsj.com/articles/derek-chauvin-trial-prosecution-team-11619062349?mod=hp_lead_pos6 Wall Street Journal website] Retrieved 22 April 2021.

{{as of|2021|05|post=,}} Katyal is a board member of Chamath Palihapitiya's venture capital firm Social Capital.{{Cite magazine |last=Duhigg |first=Charles |date=May 31, 2021 |title=The Pied Piper of SPACs |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/the-pied-piper-of-spacs |magazine=The New Yorker}}

In 2022, Katyal argued for the respondents in Moore v. Harper before the Supreme Court, a case involving election law, redistricting and the independent state legislature theory.{{Cite web |title=Docket for 21-1271 |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21-1271.html |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=www.supremecourt.gov}} The court rejected the independent legislature theory and thus upheld Katyal's position by a 6–3 vote.

Also in 2022, Katyal represented Johnson & Johnson in a civil suit against the company for selling talcum baby powder contaminated with carcinogens. His billing rate for this was $2,465 per hour.{{Cite journal |title=Johnson & Johnson's Scheme to Avoid Cancer Lawsuits Just Fell Apart in Court |journal=Slate |date=January 31, 2023 |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/johnson-talc-baby-powder-cancer-bankruptcy.html |access-date=2023-01-31|last1=Kennerly |first1=Max }}

On February 12, 2025, Milbank announced that Katyal will be leading the appellate practice of their Washington D.C. office.{{cite web |last1=Zaretsky |first1=Staci |title=Legendary Litigator Neal Katyal Makes Major Lateral Move, Joining Milbank |url=https://abovethelaw.com/2025/02/tktk/ |website=Above the Law |access-date=12 February 2025}}

On April 2, 2025, President Donald J. Trump announced on Truth Social that Milbank had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services to causes supported by his administration and the law firm. The law firm also agreed to use a merit-based system and to not engage in “illegal D.E.I. discrimination. [url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/trump-law-firms-milbank-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare]ref>

Katyal is a senior fellow at the Kettering Foundation, an American non-partisan research foundation.{{Cite news |title=Neal Katyal |url=https://kettering.org/fellow/neal-katyal/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |work=Kettering Foundation |language=en-US}}

Katyal has described himself as an "extremist centrist".{{cite web |last=Haniffa |first=Aziz |date=March 18, 2019 |title=Neal Katyal emerges as the most consequential interpreter of Robert Mueller's investigation |url=https://www.indiaabroad.com/us_affairs/neal-katyal-emerges-as-the-most-consequential-interpreter-of-robert-mueller-s-investigation/article_10b04bae-451a-11e9-840d-5bc9990a29d7.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930170810/https://www.indiaabroad.com/us_affairs/neal-katyal-emerges-as-the-most-consequential-interpreter-of-robert-mueller-s-investigation/article_10b04bae-451a-11e9-840d-5bc9990a29d7.html |archive-date=2020-09-30 |access-date=March 24, 2024 |website=IndiaAbroad.com |language=en}} He endorsed President Donald Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in an op-ed to The New York Times.{{cite news|last1=Katyal|first1=Neal K.|title=Why Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/opinion/why-liberals-should-back-neil-gorsuch.html|access-date=23 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=31 January 2017|archive-date=22 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222224520/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/opinion/why-liberals-should-back-neil-gorsuch.html|url-status=live}} When that newspaper's public editor criticized the op-ed for failing to disclose Katyal had active cases being considered by the Court, Katyal responded that it would have been obvious he always has cases being heard by the Supreme Court.{{cite news|last1=Spayd|first1=Liz|title=Arguing for a Judge Today, and Before Him Tomorrow|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/public-editor/gorsuch-katyal-supreme-court-liz-spayd-public-editor.html|access-date=23 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=2 February 2017|archive-date=22 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222000709/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/public-editor/gorsuch-katyal-supreme-court-liz-spayd-public-editor.html|url-status=live}} Katyal formally introduced Gorsuch on the first day of his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings.{{cite AV media | date=20 March 2017 | title=Neil Gorsuch Confirmation Hearings | publication-place=New York City | publisher=The New York Times Company | via=YouTube | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5uNjra1kbI | language=en | access-date=2022-10-24}}

In addition to Gorsuch, Katyal spoke highly of Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.{{Cite web|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/04/on_the_question_of_judicial_temperament_138257.html|title=On the Question of Judicial Temperament |work= RealClearPolitics|access-date=2019-04-19|archive-date=2019-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419161144/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/04/on_the_question_of_judicial_temperament_138257.html|url-status=live}} In multiple tweets that were cited by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in favor of Kavanaugh's confirmation,{{Cite web|url=https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/research/even-liberal-legal-experts-admit-judge-kavanaugh-is-a-superstar|title=Even Liberal Legal Experts Admit Judge Kavanaugh Is 'A Superstar' | Republican Leader|website=www.republicanleader.senate.gov|access-date=2019-04-19|archive-date=2019-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419161141/https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/research/even-liberal-legal-experts-admit-judge-kavanaugh-is-a-superstar|url-status=live}} Katyal praised Kavanaugh's "credentials [and] hardworking nature",{{Cite tweet|user=neal_katyal|number=1016544059517800449|title=Given J.Kavanaugh's credentials,hardworking nature&much more, it would be such a difft confirmation process if for a difft seat (like Justice Thomas') or if he were nominated by a difft President (like, any of them who weren't subjects of criminal investigations + multiple suits)|first=Neal|last=Katyal|date=July 9, 2018}} and described his "mentoring and guidance" of female law clerks as "a model for all of us in the legal profession".{{Cite tweet|user=neal_katyal|number=1017727141541220353|title=Regardless of where one stands on the Kavanaugh nomination, this is 100% right. I've seen it myself many times firsthand with his former clerks. His mentoring and guidance is a model for all of us in the legal profession. https://at.law.com/tL5kA3?cmp=share_twitter … via @TheNLJ|first=Neal|last=Katyal|date=July 13, 2018}} Katyal has also called Kavanaugh "incredibly likable".{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/670320/wednesday-qampa-with-neal-katyal|title=Wednesday Q+A With Neal Katyal|website=National Journal|access-date=2019-04-19|archive-date=2019-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419161147/https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/670320/wednesday-qampa-with-neal-katyal|url-status=live}}

The US Justice Department awarded Katyal the Edmund Randolph Award, the highest honor the department can bestow on a civilian. The National Law Journal named Katyal its runner-up for "Lawyer of the Year" in 2006 and in 2004 awarded him its Pro Bono award.Press release (December 18, 2006). "The Natw Journal Selects Libby Defense Lawyer Theodore Wells as 2006 Lawyer of the Year," [http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20061218005270/en/National-Law-Journal-Selects-Libby-Defense-Lawyer National Law Journal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224211820/http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20061218005270/en/National-Law-Journal-Selects-Libby-Defense-Lawyer |date=2017-02-24 }} ("The (National Law Journal) also named Neal K. Katyal and Carter G. Phillips as this year's runners-up.") Retrieved February 22, 2017.Barnes, Robert (May 17, 2010). "44: Politics and Policy Blog," [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/05/kagan-deputy-takes-over.html Washington Post] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908192945/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/05/kagan-deputy-takes-over.html |date=2016-09-08 }}. Retrieved February 22, 2017. American Lawyer Magazine considered him one of the top 50 litigators nationally."The Young Litigators Fab Fifty 11-20" (January 1, 2007). [http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=900005552803/The-Young-Litigators-Fab-Fifty-1120?slreturn=20170123171435 American Lawyer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224132214/http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=900005552803/The-Young-Litigators-Fab-Fifty-1120?slreturn=20170123171435 |date=2017-02-24 }}. Washingtonian Magazine named him one of the 30 best living Supreme Court advocates.Staff (November 5, 2015). "Washington, DC's Best Lawyers: Supreme Court," [https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/11/05/washington-dcs-best-lawyers-supreme-court/ Washingtonian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224213928/https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/11/05/washington-dcs-best-lawyers-supreme-court/ |date=2017-02-24 }}. Retrieved February 22, 2017

Katyal is married to Joanna Rosen, a physician.{{Cite news|url=https://heavy.com/news/2017/03/neal-katyal-supreme-court-solicitor-general-political-party-democrat-cases-affordable-care-act-voting-rights-guantanamo-bay-japanese-internment-muslim-wife-brother-in-law-hawaii/|title=Neal Katyal: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know|last=Morrow|first=Brendan|date=2017-03-08|work=Heavy.com|access-date=2018-11-08|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108224727/https://heavy.com/news/2017/03/neal-katyal-supreme-court-solicitor-general-political-party-democrat-cases-affordable-care-act-voting-rights-guantanamo-bay-japanese-internment-muslim-wife-brother-in-law-hawaii/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/indian-is-obama-s-tech-czar/cid/497699|title=Indian is Obama's tech czar|last=Nayar|first=K. P.|date=2009-05-03|work=TelegraphIndia.com|access-date=2019-04-20|language=en-UK|archive-date=2019-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420215204/https://m.telegraphindia.com/world/indian-is-obama-s-tech-czar/cid/497699|url-status=live}} His brother-in-law is Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/opinion/04rosen.html|title=Brandeis's Seat, Kagan's Responsibility|date=4 July 2010|work=The New York Times|access-date=25 February 2017|archive-date=21 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521072436/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/opinion/04rosen.html|url-status=live}} His sister Sonia Katyal is the Chancellor's Professor of Law and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at UC Berkeley.{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/sonia-katyal/|title=Sonia Katyal|website=Berkeley Law|access-date=2017-03-17|archive-date=2017-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317144051/https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/sonia-katyal/|url-status=live}}

Katyal attended Burning Man 2023, during which heavy rainfall caused flash flooding. He hiked six miles in the mud to get out of the festival, which he called "incredibly harrowing".{{cite news |last1=Rahman |first1=Khaleda |title=Neal Katyal Details 'Harrowing' Burning Man Escape |url=https://www.newsweek.com/neal-katyal-harrowing-burning-man-escape-1824304 |access-date=September 5, 2023 |newspaper=Newsweek |date=September 4, 2023}}

;Books

• {{cite book|last=Katyal|first=Neal |year= 2019 |title=Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump |publisher=Mariner |isbn=978-0358391173 }}

;Articles

• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | first2 = Akhil Reed | last2 = Amar | authorlink2 = Akhil Reed Amar| title = Executive Privileges and Immunities: The Nixon and Clinton Cases | journal = Harvard Law Review | volume = 108 | issue = 3 | pages = 701–26 | year = 1995 | url = https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/5412 | doi = 10.2307/1341920 }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | first2 = Bruce | last2 = Ackerman | authorlink2 = Bruce Ackerman | title = Our Unconventional Founding | journal = University of Chicago Law Review | volume = 62 | issue = 2 | year = 1995 | doi = 10.2307/1600145 | url = https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclrev/vol62/iss2/1/ }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | title = Deterrence's Difficulty | journal = Michigan Law Review | volume = 95 | issue = 8 | pages = 2385–2476 | year = 1997 | url = https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol95/iss8/3/ }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | title = Judges As Advicegivers | journal = Stanford Law Review | volume = 50 | issue = 6 | pages = 1709–1834 | year = 1998 | jstor = 1229240 | url = https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1732/ }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | title = Legislative Constitutional Interpretation | journal = Duke Law Journal | volume = 50 | pages = 1335–94 | year = 2000 | url = https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/532/ }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | title = Criminal Law in Cyberspace | journal = University of Pennsylvania Law Review | volume = 149 | issue = 4 | pages = 1003–1114 | year = 2001 | url = https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1887/ }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | title = Architecture As Crime Control | journal = Yale Law Journal | volume = 111 | issue = 5 | pages = 1039–1140 | year = 2002 | url = https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/architecture-as-crime-control }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | first2 = Laurence H. | last2 = Tribe | authorlink2 = Laurence Tribe | title = Waging War, Deciding Guilt: Trying the Military Tribunals | journal = Yale Law Journal | volume = 111 | issue = 6 | pages = 1259–1310 | year = 2002 | url = http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/9401 | doi = 10.2307/797612 | url-access = subscription }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | title = Conspiracy Theory | journal = Yale Law Journal | volume = 112 | issue = 6 | pages = 1307–98 | year = 2003 | url = https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/conspiracy-theory | doi = 10.2307/3657448 | url-access = subscription }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | title = Internal Separation of Powers: Checking Today's Most Dangerous Branch from Within | journal = Yale Law Journal | volume = 115 | issue = 9 | pages = 2314–49 | year = 2006 | url = https://www.yalelawjournal.org/essay/internal-separation-of-powers-checking-todays-most-dangerous-branch-from-within }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | title = Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Legal Academy Goes to Practice | journal = Harvard Law Review | volume = 120 | issue = 1 | pages = 65–123 | year = 2006 | url = https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/534/ | jstor = 4093548 }}
• {{cite journal | first = Neal K. | last = Katyal | author-mask = 1 | first2 = Thomas P. | last2 = Schmidt | title = Active Avoidance: The Modern Supreme Court and Legal Change | journal = Harvard Law Review | volume = 128 | issue = 8 | pages = 2109–65 | year = 2015 | url = https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-128/active-avoidance-the-modern-supreme-court-and-legal-change/ | jstor = 24644103 }}

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• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5751355 Nina Totenberg, "Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Path to a Landmark Ruling"], NPR, September 5, 2006
• [http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/nkk/publications.html Georgetown University Law Center faculty profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211023310/http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/nkk/publications.html |date=February 11, 2007 }}, containing a link to his publications, awards and cases argued
• [http://www.hamdanvrumsfeld.com/index Website maintained by Hamdan's defense team], including counsel profiles and briefs
• [http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/nkk/documents/gitmovanityfair.pdf Profile about Katyal and Hamdan case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611202945/https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/nkk/documents/gitmovanityfair.pdf |date=June 11, 2008 }}, Vanity Fair, March 2007
• [http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/nkk/documents/legaltimesbio.pdf "Katyal's Crusade: How an Overachieving Law Professor Toppled the President's Terror Tribunals"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060912023400/https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/nkk/documents/legaltimesbio.pdf |date=September 12, 2006 }}, Legal Times July 31, 2006
• [http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/nkk/documents/dartmouthmagbio.pdf "A Patriot's Act"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060912023439/https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/nkk/documents/dartmouthmagbio.pdf |date=September 12, 2006 }}, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, July 2006

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