[6] His maternal grandfather was murdered by the Nazis in the Vilna ghetto or the killing fields of the Ponari forest just outside Vilnius, Lithuania.
[12][13][9] At Stanford University, where he majored in human biology and from which he graduated in 1993, Bravin was three-time NCAA foil champion (1990, ’92, and ’93), as he had a college record of 208 victories and 5 defeats, and won four All-America awards.
His work has focused on criminal matters, including representation of the individual initially named as "a person of interest" in the anthrax mailings of 2001.
Bravin is of counsel to the Ellsworth Law Firm, where he works primarily on criminal and appellate cases.
He writes on legal and non-legal issues, and his work has appeared in Foreign Policy magazine, Slate, and the Huffington Post.