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Richard H. Fallon Jr. is the Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and an Affiliate Professor in Harvard University's Government Department. He joined Harvard's faculty in 1982 as an Assistant Professor, became a full Professor in 1987, and holds dual academic appointments. Fallon graduated from Yale University (History, 1975), Yale Law School (1980), and Oxford University (B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, 1977 as a Rhodes Scholar). Before academia, he clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell.
His research focuses on Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and related jurisprudential issues. Notable works include Implementing the Constitution (2001), The Dynamic Constitution (2013), Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court (2018), and The Nature of Constitutional Rights (2019). Fallon co-edits Hart & Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System and Constitutional Law: Cases-Comments-Questions.
He has received the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award twice (2001, 2006) and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fallon’s recent scholarship examines non-Article III tribunals, judicial review’s legitimacy, and administrative law’s evolution. His work bridges historical analysis and functionalist approaches to constitutional interpretation.
