Joseph Tartakovsky (/frʌm/; born December 10, 1981) is an American lawyer, writer, and historian, and the former Deputy Solicitor General of Nevada.

He is the author two books: The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law (2018)[1] and No Way Home: The Crisis of Homelessness and How to Fix It with Intelligence and Humanity (2021).

He was an associate at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLC, an international law firm, in San Francisco, where he practiced in criminal defense and civil litigation.

He has argued and litigated cases on a variety of issues that include education,[16] public lands, free speech,[17] ERISA,[18] gun background checks, and elections.

[26] As a federal prosecutor, he has handled cases involving organized crime, drug trafficking,[27][28] firearms,[29] cyberstalking,[30] theft of endangered species, embezzlement,[31] and child sexual exploitation,[32] among other offenses.