Dr. Josh Mcdaniel

Biography

Josh McDaniel is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the School’s Religious Freedom Clinic. He supervises students who represent a diverse group of religious clients, focusing on issues related to civil rights, civil liberties, constitutional law, and religious freedom, particularly for religious minorities. Prior to entering clinical teaching, McDaniel worked as a trial litigator for Munger, Tolles & Olson and as an appellate litigator for Horvitz & Levy, specializing in commercial civil rights cases with particular expertise in First Amendment religious freedom issues. He has clerked for the Honorable Cormac J. Carney in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and for the Honorable Jay S. Bybee in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In private practice, he received the Daily Journal's 2022 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) award and has been recognized as one of the “One to Watch” appellate law lawyers. McDaniel has argued in numerous appellate courts, including the California Supreme Court, and his amicus brief in a case involving Jewish schools was quoted by Justice Kavanaugh during oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Brigham Young University and graduated from the UCLA School of Law with his J.D. Josh is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, California, and Massachusetts, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and D.C. Circuits.

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