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 appellate litigation and other contexts.

Since joining Cooley, Dev has briefed cases in federal district courts, courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He has also provided strategic advice to clients on diverse issues of federal statutory and constitutional law. Dev recently was on the team that obtained a preliminary injunction against a federal agency on behalf of a medical nonprofit organization in federal district court on federal constitutional grounds.

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. During law school, Dev won the University of Virginia’s William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition, participated in the school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, and received the law school’s highest honor, the Margaret G. Hyde Award. He also published two student notes in the Virginia Law Review and co-authored a report on presidential immunities for the Brookings Institution.

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

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