Todd Grabarsky

Lecturer in Law
Last Updated: May 1, 2026

Todd Grabarsky is a supervising deputy attorney general with the California Department of Justice. He specializes in federal constitutional law, and in his practice he defends the constitutionality of California laws and policies including gun-control legislation, Internet child safety laws, public health regulations, labor protections, election protections, policies that expand access to affordable housing, anti-discrimination law and state funding.

Grabarsky earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York (Yeshiva University), where he served as editor-in-chief of the Cardozo Law Review. After law school, he served as a law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and also the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also spent a brief period as an associate at a large corporate law firm in Los Angeles. He currently serves on the board of the Law and Humanities Institute, and has served as a Supreme Court Fellow with the National Association of Attorneys General.