Joseph Tartakovsky

Joseph Tartakovsky
Tartakovsky in 2018
Deputy Solicitor General of Nevada
In office
2015–2018
Attorney GeneralAdam Paul Laxalt
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byJordan T. Smith
Personal details
Born (1981-12-10) December 10, 1981
San Francisco, California, U.S.
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (BA)
Fordham Law School (JD)

Joseph Tartakovsky (/frʌm/; born December 10, 1981) is an American lawyer, writer, and historian, and the former Deputy Solicitor General of Nevada. Tartakovsky also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California in San Francisco where he prosecuted criminal cases.

He is the author two books: The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law (2018) and No Way Home: The Crisis of Homelessness and How to Fix It with Intelligence and Humanity (2021). His book, The Lives of the Constitution, became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.com in the three areas: constitutional law, legal history, and legal biography.

His writings have appeared in publications that include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, National Review, The New Criterion, Commentary Magazine, and Forbes. He has been a guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. C-SPAN's Book TV featured a book release event for The Lives of the Constitution in Washington, D.C.