Eric W. Treene

Eric W. Treene, Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. In this newly-created position, Mr. Treene coordinates the Civil Rights Division's religious discrimination cases in all of its jurisdictional areas: education, employment, housing, public accommodations, public facilities, zoning and land-use, and prisons. He also coordinates religious bias crime prosecutions, including those involving attacks and threats against houses of worship. Before joining the Department of Justice in 2002, he was Director of Litigation at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, where he represented Christians, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Native Americans in a wide range of religious freedom cases. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Amherst College, and a former law clerk to Chief Judge John M. Walker, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is the author of a number of articles on constitutional law.

Mr. Treene is serving as a moot court judge in his individual capacity, and does not represent the United States of America.