[1] During his undergraduate studies, Briffault served as Managing Editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator in 1973.
[1] Briffault subsequently clerked for Judge Shirley Hufstedler of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, worked for New York Governor Hugh Carey as assistant counsel, and worked for the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as an associate.
[3] Briffault began teaching at Columbia Law School in 1983, and was later named the Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation.
appearances also matter, in terms of public confidence in the integrity of their officials.”[9] He married Canadian economist Sherry Glied in 1993.
[10] Glied currently serves as the Dean of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.