John Paul Schnapper-Casteras is the founder of Schnapper-Casteras PLLC, a boutique law firm focusing on frontier technology and the Supreme Court. He counsels virtual currency and financial technology startups on regulation and compliance. Previously, he worked on a broad array of constitutional and civil cases as Special Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and in the appellate practice of Sidley Austin LLP. JP began working on open source projects at the age of 16, conducted research on recovery-oriented computing at Stanford’s Computer Science Department, and was Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Scientific Review. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School, and M.A. and B.A. with Honors from Stanford, and is a member of the New York and D.C. Bars.
