Dev Ranjan

Dev is an advisor, advocate and litigator. As an associate in Cooley’s Supreme Court and appellate practice, he helps clients navigate all manner of legal issues in federal courts and before federal agencies.

Dev’s experience before joining Cooley includes drafting sections of a merits brief in the US Supreme Court as a participant in the University of Virginia’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic; preparing briefs for asylees in immigration courts and before the Board of Immigration Appeals as a pro bono volunteer; advising government agencies on regulatory and federal constitutional matters while working in the Office of the Solicitor General of Virginia; and co-authoring a report on presidential immunities for the Brookings Institution. During law school, Dev won the William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition, published two student notes in the Virginia Law Review – one of which was awarded the Roger and Madeleine Traynor Prize for exceptional written work by a law student – and received the law school’s highest honor, the Margaret G. Hyde Award.

Before law school, he spent more than a decade competing nationally as a rock climber and working as a sommelier in a three-Michelin-starred restaurant.

Dev clerked for Judge Toby Heytens of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Judge Jesse Furman of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Publications

• Author, “Collateral Effects of Habeas Retrogression,” Virginia Law Review 109, 2023
• Author, “Harmonizing Federal Immunities,” Virginia Law Review 109, 2023
• Co-author, “Fulton County, Georgia’s Trump Investigation,” Brookings Institution, 2022