Aaron Scherzer

Litigation Director

   aaron.scherzer@nyu.edu

Aaron is the Litigation Director of the Policing Project, where he oversees the Policing Project's litigation portfolio. Aaron has worked in nonprofits, government, and private practice, and has clerked at all three levels of the federal judiciary.

Prior to joining the Policing Project, Aaron was a Senior Counsel at the States United Democracy Center, where he established and ran a new lane of work at the organization, bringing accountability to democracy violators. Prior to States United, Aaron Scherzer was the Chief of Strategic Initiatives and Enforcement at the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights within the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, where he led the Division’s proactive initiatives. Prior to that, Aaron was a Senior Associate in the Supreme Court and Appellate Group at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in New York, where he led large pro bono teams litigating immigration and criminal justice matters. In addition, Aaron was also a Cochran Fellow at the civil rights firm Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, litigating civil suits on behalf of individuals who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated. Prior to law school, Aaron worked at the Bronx Defenders.

Aaron is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School, where he was a student director of two clinics and Co-Chair of the Student Board of Directors of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization. After law school, Aaron clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Judge Jed Rakoff in the Southern District of New York.