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…

Taeku Lee, Jonathan Loc, Kenneth W. Mack et al., Civically Speaking with the Ash Center (Sept. 13, 2022).

Kenneth W. Mack, Civil Disobedience, State Action, and Lawmaking Outside the Courts: Robert Bell’s Encounter with American Law, 39 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 347 (2014).

Kenneth W. Mack, A journalist who strives to show Black people’s ’full humanity’, Wash. Post, Oct. 30, 2022, at B8.

Kenneth W. Mack, This pathbreaking Black journalist offers a model in uncertain times, Wash. Post (Oct. 26, 2022) (reviewing Charlayne Hunter-Gault, My People: Five Decades…

Kenneth Mack, Race et Droit (2021).

Kenneth W. Mack & Andre M. Davis, Did Ketanji Brown Jackson rule against Black workers? It’s not so simple., Wash. Post, Feb. 21, 2022.

Kenneth W. Mack, What Fannie Lou Hamer Can Teach Today’s Activists, Wash. Post., Nov. 19, 2021.

Kenneth W. Mack, Corporations That Back Voting Rights Will Find It’s Good for Business, Too, Wash. Post, Apr. 20, 2021.

Kenneth W. Mack, How a Decades-long Conversation Shaped the Young United States, Wash. Post, May 14, 2021, (reviewing Akhil Reed Amar, The Words That Made…

Kenneth W. Mack,Critical Race Theory and Scholarly Analyses of Race in France (forthcoming La Revue des Droits de l’Homme, September 2021).

Kenneth W. Mack, Running Deeper than Race: America’s Caste System, Wash. Post, July 31, 2020, (reviewing Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origin of our Discontents (2020)).

Kenneth W. Mack, Some Free-speech Norms are in Danger. Maybe That’s a Good Thing, Wash. Post, Nov. 6, 2020, (reviewing Ellis Cose, The Short Life…

Kenneth W. Mack, James Baldwin Spoke Eloquently to His Era. Does He Also Speak to Ours?, Wash. Post, July 19, 2020, (reviewing Eddie S. Glaude…

Kenneth W. Mack, The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side, Balt. Sun, July 8, 2007, at 2F.

Kenneth W. Mack, Which Side is Brown v. Board On?, L.A. Times, July 4, 2007, at A21.

Kenneth W. Mack, The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institution, SCOTUS Blog (Feb. 4, 2010).

Kenneth W. Mack, Opinion, A Measure of History (on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act), Bos. Globe, Mar. 25, 2010, at 13.

Kenneth W. Mack, The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden, The Root (Apr. 6, 2012, 12:55 AM).

Kenneth Mack, Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory, The Root (July 7, 2012, 12:53 AM).

Kenneth W. Mack, Five Myths About Two-Term Presidents, Wash. Post, Nov. 11, 2012, at B02.

Kenneth W. Mack, Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, Fifty Years On, Huffington Post (Jan. 27, 2013, 2:43 PM).

Kenneth W. Mack, It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year, TIME (Nov. 7, 2014, 4:18 PM).

Kenneth W. Mack, Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?, Politico (Jan. 22, 2017) (essays by twenty-one historians).

Kenneth Mack, Commentary: Constraint and Freedom in the ‘Age of Obama,’ in The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? 27 (Gregory S. Parks & Matthew…

Kenneth Mack, The Transformations of Morton Horwitz, Harv. L. Bull., July 1, 2013.

Kenneth Mack, Holder, Eric, in African American National Biography (Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham eds., 2d ed. 2013).

Laura Kalman, Jed Shugerman, Bill Simon, Kenneth Mack, Serena Mayeri, Norman Spaulding, Sarah Gordon, John Fabian Witt & Amelia Kessler, ‘Lawyers Make Law?’: Bob Gordon…

Kenneth W. Mack, A Black Writer on Individualism, Identity and Indifference in Trump’s America, Wash. Post, Dec. 22, 2019, at B11 (reviewing Clifford Thompson, What…

Kenneth W. Mack, The Contradictory Conservatism of Clarence Thomas, Wash. Post (Sept. 26, 2019, 10:07 PM)(reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)).

Kenneth W. Mack, A Defense of Black Lives Matter from the Activist in the Blue Vest, Wash Post, Nov. 2, 2018, at B07 (reviewing DeRay…

Kenneth W. Mack, Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical, Boston Rev., Feb. 29, 2016 (reviewing Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of…

Kenneth W. Mack, A Case of Police Brutality That Helped Change Race Relations, Wash. Post, Feb. 3, 2019, at B06 (reviewing Richard Gergel, The Blinding…

Kenneth W. Mack, Second Mode Inclusion Claims in the Law Schools, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 1005 (2018).

Kenneth W. Mack, Foreword: A Short Biography of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 67 SMU L. Rev. 229 (2014).

Kenneth W. Mack, Dissent and Authenticity in the History of American Racial Politics, in Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers and…

Kenneth W. Mack, Civil Rights History: The Old and the New, 126 Harv. L. Rev. F. 258 (2013) (Responding to Risa Goluboff, Lawyers, Law, and…

Kenneth W. Mack, The Obama Phenomenon: How Past and Present Resonate (Dec. 19, 2011).

Kenneth W. Mack, Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905, 24 Law & Soc.

Kenneth W. Mack, The Role of Law in the Making of Racial Identity: The Case of Harrisburg’s W. Justin Carter, 18 Widener L.J. 1 (2008).

Kenneth W. Mack, Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement, 27 Law & Hist. Rev. 657 (2009).

Kenneth W. Mack, The Two Modes of Inclusion, 129 Harv. L. Rev. F. 290 (2016).

Kenneth W. Mack, Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (Harvard Univ. Press 2012).

Kenneth W. Mack, A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-1960, in…

Kenneth W. Mack, A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-1960, in…

Kenneth W. Mack, A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-1960, 87…

Kenneth W. Mack, Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1942, 93 J. Am. Hist. 37 (2006).