A legal lab for constitutional change.
Capital Rights Lab is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to expanding democratic rights for DC residents. Why "lab"? Because we're advancing a host of new legal theories, litigation models, policy reforms, and persuasion campaigns to most effectively expand access to representation and equal citizenship. Our work is building the legal case for expanded rights for DC citizens today, not waiting for Congress to act.
David Seidman founded Capital Rights Lab after more than a decade in law and politics in DC, as a policy advisor in the Obama White House, campaign counsel on the Biden and Harris presidential campaigns, and as a litigator at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown Law and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.