Education

Dartmouth College 1955-1959 B.A.
Oxford University  1959-1961 B.Phil. (Philosophy)
Harvard Law School 1961-1964 LL.B.

Academic Awards – At Dartmouth:  Summa Cum Laude; Valedictory Standing; Phi Beta Kappa (elected in Junior Year); Rufus Choate Scholar (all four years); Reynolds Fellowship.  At Oxford:  Fulbright Scholar.  At Harvard:  Magna Cum Laude; Prize Scholarships; Law Review.

Professional Experience

Law Clerk to Thurgood Marshall, then Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1964-1965

Law Clerk to William J. Brennan, Jr., then Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1965-1966

Special Assistant to John Doar, then Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, 1966-1968

Professor of Law, University of Chicago, 1968-1974

Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford University, Fall 1973

Professor of Law, Yale University, 1974-1982; Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law, Yale University, 1982-1992; Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University, 1992-present

Honors

Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1995

Doctor of Laws, University of Toronto, June 2004

Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad de Palermo, Argentina, June 2008

Fellowships

American Council of Learned Societies, 1995

Humboldt Fellowship, 1993-1995

Advisory and Consultative Positions

Editorial Board, Philosophy & Public Affairs

Editorial Board, Foundation Press, Inc.

Editorial Board, Yale Journal of Criticism

Editorial Board, Journal of Law and Liberation

Editorial Board, Yale Journal of Law and Humanities

Editorial Board, Law, Economics and Organization

Editorial Board, DOXA (Cuadernos De Filosofia Del Derecho), Universidad de Alicanta, SPAIN

Executive Committee, Board of Trustees, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Consultant, President's Commission on Campus Unrest, 1970

Consultant, Impeachment Inquiry, House of Representatives, Committee of the Judiciary, 1974

Vice President, American Society of Policy and Legal Philosophy, 1982

Advisory Board, Vanderbilt Institute of Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University

Board of Directors, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction

Advisory Board, Alexander Meiklejohn Institute for Legal Studies, Amherst College

Board of Visitors, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College

Chairperson, Board of Advisers, Constitutional Commission of Eritrea, 1995-1997

Advisory Board, Seminario Eduardo García Máynez & Isonomía, Mexico

Editorial Board, Ars Interpretandi (Journal of Legal Hermeneutics) CEDAM, Italy

International Advisory Board, Center for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

Contributing Editor, Boston Review