Neal Katyal is Saunders Professor at Georgetown University and a Partner at Hogan Lovells. He previously served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States. He has argued 45 cases before the Supreme Court, with 41 of them in the last decade. His cases include successfully striking down the Guantanamo military tribunals, successfully defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act, successfully defending the Peace Cross in Maryland, and a landmark personal jurisdiction win for Bristol Meyers Squibb. At the age of 51, he has already argued more Supreme Court cases in U.S. history than has any minority attorney, recently breaking the record held by Thurgood Marshall.  He has appeared on virtually every major American news program and Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, as well as Netflix’s House of Cards and Showtime’s Billions (where he played himself on both series).