Leadership

The Advance Arkansas Institute is led by Dan Greenberg; he is currently a senior research fellow at the Cato Institute. 

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He is the former general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he led the Institute’s public interest litigation program and overturned the nation’s oldest unconstitutional law: the federal prohibition on at-home distillery. He served as senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2017-2021. He has been an adjunct professor of law and political science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock as well as senior counsel for the Center for Class Action Fairness. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2007-2011, and on the Pulaski County Quorum Court for four years prior to that. As a state legislator, he received National Review’s “2010 Challenge / Best Conservative Idea” award for his work on federalism issues as well as the Arkansas Press Association’s Freedom of Information Award for his work on First Amendment issues.

 

He has published extensively on government and public policy in newspapers, magazines and academic journals, including The New York Times, National Review, the Monist, the John Marshall Law Review, and the Ohio State Law Journal.  He holds degrees from Brown University, Bowling Green State University, and UALR’s Bowen School of Law.