Ben Eidelson
Benjamin Eidelson is a Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is a scholar of public law and issues at the intersection of law and philosophy, with research and teaching interests cutting across constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, statutory interpretation, administrative law, and legal theory.
Dean John C. P. Goldberg
John C.P. Goldberg is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Goldberg, an expert in tort law, tort theory, and political philosophy, joined the Law School faculty in 2008. He served as a Deputy Dean from 2017 to 2022 and as the Interim Dean from 2024 to 2025.
Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include, These Truths: A History of the United States (2018). Her latest book is The Deadline. She directs Amend, public archive of proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution. She is currently writing a history of American constitutionalism.
Rosalie Silberman Abella
Justice Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004. She is the first Jewish woman appointed to the Court.
She was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1997, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, and to the American Philosophical Society in 2018. In 2020, she was awarded the Knight Commander‘s Cross of the Order of Merit by the President of Germany.
Guy-Uriel Charles
Guy-Uriel E. Charles is the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where he also directs the Charles Hamilton Institute for Race and Justice. He writes about how law mediates political power and how law addresses racial subordination. He teaches courses on civil procedure; election law; constitutional law; race and law; critical race theory; legislation and statutory interpretation; law, economics, and politics; and law, identity, and politics.
Randall Kennedy
Randall Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina. For his education he attended St. Albans School, Princeton University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.
Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, Chair of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, all at Harvard University. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on power and ethics, design of innovative governance solutions, law and religion, and the history of legal ideas.
Andrew M. Crespo
Andrew Manuel Crespo is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches criminal law and procedure and serves as the Executive Faculty Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration. Professor Crespo’s research and scholarly expertise center on the institutional design, legal frameworks, and power structures of the American penal system, and on the relationship between lawyers, organizers, and social movement actors in effecting transformational change.
Stephen Breyer
Justice Stephen Breyer ’64 has been named the Byrne Professor of Administrative Law and Process at Harvard Law School. In 1980, President Carter appointed Breyer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, on which he served from 1980 to 1994. He was chief judge from 1990 to 1994. During his time on the First Circuit, Breyer also served as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 1985 to 1989. In 1994, President Clinton nominated Judge Breyer as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat August 3, 1994.
Sharon Block
Sharon Block is a Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, she served as the senior official delegated the duties of the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in President Joe Biden’s White House.
Kenneth W. Mack
Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also the co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History. His 2012 book, Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (Harvard University Press), was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, a National Book Festival Selection, was awarded honorable mention for the J. Willard Hurst Award by the Law and Society Association, and was a finalist for the Julia Ward Howe Book Award.
Molly Brady
Molly Brady is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches property law and related subjects. Her scholarship uses historical analyses of property institutions and land use doctrines to explore broader theoretical questions. Her current research projects involve the relationship between covenants and zoning, the persistence of community knowledge in property doctrine, and the uses of history in state constitutional law. She is also an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Fourth Restatement of Property.
I. Glenn Cohen
Prof. Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called “medical ethics”) and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on genetic privacy, spoken to NATO on biotechnology and human enhancement, addressed the OECD and members of the US and the Korean Congress on medical AI policy, and advised then- U.S. Vice President Harris on reproductive rights.