Nicholas Dranias
Nick Dranias Law & Policy Analysis, LLC
Nick Dranias Law & Policy Analysis, LLC
NICK DRANIAS is President & Executive Director within the Office of the President of Compact for America Educational Foundation, Inc., a policy advisor for the Heartland Institute, and a legal and policy advisor for NeWAY Private Capital. Dranias previously served as General Counsel and Constitutional Policy Director for the Goldwater Institute, where he held the Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan Chair and directed the Joseph and Dorothy Donnelly Moller Center. Dranias led the Goldwater Institute’s successful challenge to Arizona’s system of government campaign financing to the Supreme Court. Dranias has authored scholarly articles dealing with a wide spectrum of issues in constitutional and regulatory policy. Dranias’ latest works are Why Your State Should Compact for a Balanced Budget (Compact for America), In Defense of Private Civic Engagement (Heartland Institute) and Introducing "Article V 2.0" (Heartland Institute/Federalist Society). Prior thereto, Dranias was an attorney with the Institute for Justice for three years and an attorney in private practice in Chicago for eight years. He served on the Loyola University Chicago Law Review, competed on Loyola’s National Labor Law Moot Court Team, and received various academic awards. He graduated cum laude from Boston University with a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy. Dranias maintains a side practice of law and policy limited to 1 litigation and 4 transactional clients.