Since 2005, Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellows have established careers in the legal academy, primarily in the United States. Past fellows and their current positions are listed below.
2024-2025 Berger-Howe Fellow
REPHAEL (RAFI) STERN
Rephael (Rafi) G. Stern is the Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Fellow in Legal History at Harvard Law School. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in History at Harvard University.
Rafi studies the history of administrative and constitutional law from a comparative and transnational perspective. He is currently writing several article-length works on the movement of constitutional and administrative legal principles, procedures, and theories between Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. He is also completing a dissertation in which he examines how post-colonial legal systems in the Middle East both rejected and embraced the legal system and culture of their British colonial predecessors. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Constitutional Commentary, and the peer-reviewed journals of Law and History and Comparative Studies in Society and History, among other venues. Rafi has been awarded the Irving Oberman Memorial Prize for Constitutional Law, the Israeli History and Law Association Best Article Prize, and numerous teaching awards, among other honors.
Rafi served as a clerk to Judge Bruce M. Selya on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In 2022-23, he served as a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at NYU Law School. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2021, his A.M. in History from Harvard, his M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, and his B.A. in History from Brandeis University.
| BERGER-HOWE FELLOW | FELLOWSHIP YEAR(S) | CURRENT POSITION |
| No Fellow | 2023-2024 | |
| Jesse James | 2022-2023 | 2023-2024 Fellow Institute for Ideas & Imagination Columbia University |
| Jamie Grischkan | 2020-2021 | Associate Professor Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law |
| Lael Weinberger | 2019-2020 | Non-resident Fellow, Constitutional Law Center Stanford University |
| William P. Sullivan | 2018-2019 | Associate Three Crowns |
| Marie-Amelie George | 2017-2018 | Associate Professor of Law Wake Forest School of Law |
| Nikolas Bowie | 2016-2017 | Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
| Adam Lebovitz | 2015-2016 | WYNG Research Fellow University of Cambridge |
| Maeve Glass | 2014-2015 | Associate Professor of Law Columbia Law School |
| Sara Mayeux | 2013-2014 | Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of History Vanderbilt Law School |
| Peter C. Pihos | 2012-2013 | Assistant Professor of History Western Washington University |
| Sam Erman | 2011-2012 | Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School |
| Jedidiah Kroncke | 2010-2011 | Associate Professor Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong |
| Deborah Dinner | 2009-2010 | Professor of Law Cornell Law School |
| Kara Swanson | 2008-2009 | Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History Northeastern University School of Law |
| Cynthia Nicoletti | 2007-2008 | Professor of Law and Professor of History University of Virginia School of Law |
| R. Owen Williams | 2007-2008 | Author |
| Diana I. Williams | 2006-2007 | |
| Daniel I. Sharfstein | 2005-2006 | Dick and Martha Lansden Chair in Law and Professor of History Vanderbilt Law School |
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