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Richard H. Fallon, Jr. Wins the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize

August 17, 2018

Faculty Committee member Dick Fallon's new book, Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court (Harvard University Press, 2018), has won the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize given by the Georgetown Center on the Constitution. The Cooley Prize was established last year to draw academic and public attention to a book that makes an important scholarly contribution to our understanding of the Constitution.

Georgetown Law will award the $50,000 prize to Professor Fallon on April 11, 2019. The evening event will feature the inaugural Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture,...

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New Book from Nicholas Papaspyrou

June 26, 2018

Nicholas Papaspyrou (Graduate Fellow 1998-99), Assistant Professor of Public Law at the University of Athens, has a new book from Hart Publishing. Constitutional Argument and Institutional Structure in the United States develops ideas first explored in his dissertation at Harvard Law School and discussed with members of the Center during his fellowship at EJSCE.

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Martha Minow Named University Professor

June 20, 2018

Faculty Associate Martha Minow, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, and former Dean of Harvard Law School, has been named a University Professor. This is the University's highest faculty honor. 

Minow has twice served as Acting Director of the Center, during the academic years 1993-94 and 2000-01, while Professor Dennis F. Thompson was on sabbatical leave. Additionally, Minow was Senior Scholar in Ethics in 1991-92 and was a charter member of the Faculty Committee, serving in...

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Announcing the 2018-19 Ethics Pedagogy Fellows!

April 10, 2018

We are pleased to announce our new Ethics Pedagogy Fellows for the 2018-19 academic year.

Ashley Lee
Ashley Lee is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellow. Her dissertation research focuses on the Internet and youth political participation in comparative perspective. At Harvard, she has served as a teaching fellow for courses on educational philosophy, civics and ethics, developmental psychology, and comparative policy analysis. Previously, she has worked...

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