Vincent A. Eng

Vincent A. Eng is the Legal Director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), a national non-profit and nonpartisan organization that works to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans through advocacy, public policy, public education, and litigation. Mr. Eng also serves as Chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Committee on Language Rights.

At NAPALC, Mr. Eng oversees its public policy programs and litigation efforts. He has filed numerous amicus briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States, including in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases, testified before Congress on civil rights matters, and has participated on various national panels and debates. Before joining NAPALC, Mr. Eng was head of publications and Managing Editor at Bernan, the nation's largest provider of government information and the official publisher of the World Trade Organization and UNESCO, where he directed Bernan's editorial, production, acquisition, and marketing efforts. Prior to that he was an attorney-advisor at the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, where he was the recipient of the Assistant Attorney General's Award, the highest award given by that agency.

Currently, Mr. Eng is an adjunct associate professor of law at the American University,
Washington College of Law. He has also taught at the Harvard Law School and the University of Maryland School of Law. Mr. Eng has written and edited over ten books on various legal and political matters and currently serves as the editor and chief of the Almanac of the Executive Branch. Mr. Eng's most recent publication is Sentencing, Sanctions, and Corrections (Foundation Press, 2002). Mr. Eng received a B.A. in Politics from Brandeis University, and a J.D., M.S. in Criminal Justice from The American University. He is admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals of Maryland and the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

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