PERSON: Danielle McLaughlin

Horizon 2045

Senior Analyst, Author, Lawyer

Danielle McLaughlin is a New York City-based Author, Attorney, and Legal and Political Commentator. Danielle appears frequently on U.S. and international TV and radio (Including Fox, Fox Business, CNN, HLN, TV3 New Zealand and the Sean Hannity Radio Show) providing analysis and insight on important legal and political questions — throughout 2016, Danielle appeared frequently as a Hillary Clinton supporter and Democratic strategist. Danielle’s legal scholarship is focused on important constitutional issues including the scope of the President’s power, reproductive rights, immigration, LGBT rights, consumer rights, property rights and eminent domain, and the tension between international law and sovereignty. Danielle co-wrote The Federalist Society: How Conservatives took the Law Back from Liberals which was reviewed favorably by The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Washington Review of Books, and the L.A. Review of Books. This work is of renewed importance as 2017 dawns to Republican control of the Executive and Congress, as well as a majority of state Governorships and Legislatures. Danielle’s law practice concentrates on government investigations and commercial disputes. Danielle writes a weekly column on U.S. politics for New Zealand’s largest Sunday Newspaper, the Sunday Star Times. She also blogs frequently about issues touching on politics, policy and law, to further her mission to empower voters and enrich discourse within the U.S. electorate. Danielle holds a Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, from Suffolk University Law School in Boston where she was the Editor in Chief of the Journal of High Technology Law, and a degree in Engineering (Hons 2:2) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Danielle clerked for the Hon. William Young in The Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and prior to practicing law, was a consulting engineer in Auckland, New Zealand, and a PR & marketing consultant in London, England and Vail, Colorado.

Danielle is a triathlete and runner, a fan of the All Blacks (obligatory as a native New Zealander…), wife to Brendan, and mom to Olympia.

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