Marshall J. Breger is a professor of law at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America. From 1993-95, he was a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
During the George H.W. Bush Administration he served as Solicitor of Labor, the chief lawyer of the Labor Department with a staff of over 800 people. During 1992, by presidential designation, he served concurrently as Acting Assistant Secretary for Labor Management Standards.
His government service includes being appointed chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States, an independent federal agency, and alternate delegate of the U.S. to the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Professor Breger was appointed special assistant to President Reagan and liaison to the Jewish Community.
In Fall 2002, Breger was Lady Davis Visiting Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In Fall 2003 he was Distinguished Sy-Cip Fulbright Lecturer in the Philippines.
Breger is a contributing columnist to Moment magazine. He has writen over 25 law review articles in publications including the Stanford Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Duke Law Journal and North Carolina Law Review. He has published as well in periodicals such as The Middle East Quarterly, The National Interest, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
Professor Breger holds a B.A. and M.A., 1967, from University of Pennsylvania, a B.Phil., 1970, from Oriel College, Oxford University; and a J.D., magna cum laude 1973, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor of the law review and a member of the Order of the Coif.
Together with his wife, Jennifer, and two daughters, Sarah 18 and Esther 16, he lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.