Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard University. The title “University Professor” is Harvard’s highest academic honor, awarded to fewer than 75 professors in the University’s history. Tribe began teaching at Harvard Law School in 1968 and went on to teach and mentor dozens of prominent figures in the legal and political firmament, including President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Elena Kagan, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Representatives Jamie Raskin and Adam Schiff, and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain. Throughout his career, he clerked for the California and U.S. Supreme Courts, helped write the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands, has prevailed in three-fifths of appellate cases he has argued (including 35 in the U.S. Supreme Court), co-founded the American Constitution Society, and was appointed in 2010 by President Obama to serve as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice and in 2021 by President Biden to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. He has written 115 books and articles, including “American Constitutional Law,” which has been cited more than any other legal text since 1950. Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold wrote: “[N]o book, and no lawyer not on the [Supreme] Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law.”