Richard M. Re
Professor of Law
Richard M. Re is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His primary research and teaching interests are in constitutional law, federal courts, and criminal procedure. He was professor of the year when teaching at UCLA in 2017, gave the charge to the class of 2024 while at UVA, and received the Charles Fried Award while visiting at Harvard Law School. Re’s work has appeared or been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and elsewhere.
Re earned an A.B. in social studies from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in political thought and intellectual history from the University of Cambridge, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Re clerked for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. Re also worked as an Honors Program attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice and practiced law at a firm in Washington, D.C.
Re contributes to the Divided Argument Substack and maintains his own blog, Re’s Judicata.