Seth Wayne

Senior Counsel and Criminal Reform Litigation Coordinator

Seth Wayne leads the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection’s litigation addressing criminal legal system matters. Before joining the Institute, he was a trial attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, where he investigated and litigated cases involving law enforcement agencies engaged in a pattern or practice of civil rights violations.  Prior to joining the Department of Justice, he was a Liman Public Interest Fellow and staff attorney at the Orleans Public Defenders, where he represented indigent people charged with crimes in the New Orleans Criminal District Court, with a focus on people with lived experience of mental illness.

Seth received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was student director of the Criminal Defense Project and a director of the Rebellious Lawyering Conference.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in Canada.