Ryan P. Mulvey

Ryan P. Mulvey is Senior Policy Counsel at Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Senior Counsel at Cause of Action Institute. His practice touches on various aspects of government oversight, civic engagement, and administrative and constitutional law. He regularly lectures on government transparency matters and litigates cases under the Freedom of Information Act and Administrative Procedure Act. Mr. Mulvey has helped to prosecute state public records requests, too. He has provided amicus support at various levels of state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court, on myriad matters. As a policy expert, he regularly advises federal and state government officials about the importance of administrative-law and transparency reforms.

Of note, Mr. Mulvey was and remains lead counsel for the fishermen-plaintiffs in the landmark case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which the Supreme Court overruled the forty-year-old Chevron-deference doctrine.

Mr. Mulvey graduated from the University of San Diego (2010) summa cum laude with an honors degree in history and political science. He earned his JD and MA in philosophy from Boston University (2013). While a law student, Mr. Mulvey completed internships at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies and the Office of the General Counsel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. He served as Executive Editor for Notes and Comments at the Review of Banking & Financial Law and worked as a research assistant for the second revised edition of the Heritage Foundation’s Guide to the Constitution (2014).

Mr. Mulvey is admitted to the practice of law in New York State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the State of Maryland. He is president of the American Society of Access Professionals and a contributor at FOIA Advisor. Mr. Mulvey was a non-governmental member of the 2024-2026 Term of the National Archives & Records Administration’s Federal Freedom of Information Act Advisory Committee.