Frank I. Michelman

Frank I. Michelman is Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University, where he has taught since 1963. He is the author of Brennan and Democracy (1999), Legitimation by Constitution, (2021, with Alessandro Ferrara), and Constitutional Essentials: On the Constitutional Theory of Political Liberalism (2022) and has published widely in the fields of constitutional law and theory, comparative constitutionalism, South African constitutionalism, property law and theory, local government law, and general legal theory. Professor Michelman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past President (1994-95) of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He has served on the Committee of Directors for the annual Prague Conference on Philosophy and the Social Sciences, the Board of Directors of the United States Association of Constitutional Law, and the National Advisory Board of the American Constitution Society. In 2005, Professor Michelman was awarded the American Philosophical Society’s Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence and, in 2004, the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize.

In January, 1995, and again in January 1996, Professor Michelman served as a co-organizer and co-leader of Judges’ Conferences sponsored by the Centre on Applied Legal Studies of the University of the Witwatersrand, devoted to matters of constitutional law in South Africa. In December, 2011, Professor Michelman delivered the keynote address for a multi-day Conference on “The 20th Anniversary of Israel’s Human Rights Revolution,” at a session held at the Knesset, Jerusalem.