Yael Bromberg is a constitutional rights attorney with over twenty years of experience in community organizing, advocacy, and campaigns. She counsels and represents individuals, organizations, and unions in state and federal courts across the country. Her docket includes election law, voting rights, free speech, ethics, civil rights, and labor cases and projects.
A nationally leading legal scholar of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, Bromberg developed her scholarship while teaching and supervising litigation in the Georgetown University Law Center Civil Rights Clinic and Voting Rights Institute, where she received an LLM in Advocacy with distinction. Her resulting article, Youth Voting Rights and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, is widely cited and has been dubbed a “groundbreaking study” and a “legal and organizing call for arms.” She is an architect of the Youth Voting Rights Act, comprehensive legislation to enforce the Twenty-Sixth Amendment.
At Rutgers Law, Bromberg teaches Election Law & The Political Process, and served as faculty advisor for Rutgers University Law Review’s 2022 symposium, Voting Rights Reform: The 26th Amendment, Youth Power, and the Potential for a Third Reconstruction – the first-ever legal volume dedicated to the Amendment since its ratification over half a century ago. She authored the Introduction to the volume, entitled The Future Is Unwritten: Reclaiming the Twenty-Sixth Amendment.
A Rutgers Law School graduate and former Kinoy/Stavis Fellow of the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Bromberg returned to the Rutgers Law Clinic to supervise students on voting rights and election law cases and projects in the International Human Rights Clinic. Her academic collaborations include engagements with The Harvard Kennedy School William Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and a Mellon Foundation-supported applied learning research curricular project premised on her Twenty-Sixth Amendment scholarship, engaging Bard College and HBCUs Prairie View Texas A&M University, North Carolina A&T University, and Tuskegee University. She is also a Visiting Associate with the Eagleton Institute of Politics.
Bromberg is Principal of Bromberg Law LLC where she primarily practices democracy law, and serves as special counsel and strategic advisor for The Andrew Goodman Foundation, a national organization in over 25 states across 85 campuses dedicated to making youth votes and voices a powerful force in democracy. Bromberg also serves as of counsel to NJ labor law firm Weissman & Mintz LLC, and she litigates for equal pay and supports union members in labor arbitration. She sits on the national cross-partisan advisory board of American Promise, which seeks to ratify a new constitutional amendment to restore the rights of Americans to regulate election money, protect free speech and representation, and combat systemic corruption.
Bromberg previously worked in the Washington, D.C. headquarters of good government watchdog Common Cause, and clerked for nearly three years with The Honorable Dickinson R. Debevoise in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
A double-Rutgers alumna, Bromberg graduated from Douglass College where she double-majored in Applied Environmental Sciences and Political Science. She then joined the Rutgers School of Management & Labor Relations as the principal researcher on a study of the working lives and employment conditions of New Jersey port truckers, funded by the National Science Foundation and the NJ Department of Labor. Upon graduation from Rutgers Law School, Bromberg received the Eli Jarmel Memorial Award for greatest interest and proficiency in public interest law. In 2015, she received the Eric Neisser Public Service Alumni Award, of which she is the youngest recipient.
Bromberg is a regular commentator and contributor on democracy issues, and has been featured on CSPAN, Washington Post, The Hill, Slate, NPR, The Guardian, WBAI, CBS News, The National Constitution Center’s We The People podcast, Inside Higher Ed, and other publications and news outlets.