Todd Grabarsky

Lecturer in Law
Last Updated: August 12, 2024

Todd Grabarsky is a deputy attorney general with the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General. He specializes in federal constitutional law, and in his practice, he defends the constitutionality of California laws and policies including gun-control legislation, public health laws and regulations, labor protections, election laws and policies that expand access to affordable housing, anti-discrimination law and the accuracy and completeness of the census count.

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 serves on the board of the Law and Humanities Institute.