An internationally-recognized scholar of constitutional law and corporate governance, Kent Greenfield is a professor and the Dean鈥檚 Distinguished Scholar at 艾可直播 College Law School. He has authored three trade books, including听听for Yale University Press. He is also the author of two constitutional law e-casebooks and the principal editor of the two Supreme Court volumes of听听(LexisNexis).
Greenfield is a frequent public commentator on broadcast and cable news programs, having appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera, and Fox. His essays have appeared in the听New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Slate,听SCOTUSBlog,听艾可直播 Globe, American Prospect, Salon,听and听Nation. He has also published over four dozen scholarly articles in leading legal journals including the听Yale Law Journal听and听Virginia Law Review.
Greenfield is an active participant in litigation matters pertaining to civil rights and corporate accountability. He was the founder and president of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, the named plaintiff in a 2006 Supreme Court case that challenged the Pentagon鈥檚 anti-gay policies. He was instrumental in developing the theory of the cases brought against Unocal Corporation and Hershey Corporations for alleged human rights violations in Burma and West Africa. Additionally, he has authored several amicus briefs in Supreme Court matters, including in the cases of Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission,听and 303 Creative v Elenis, arguing that the Supreme Court should not extend religious freedom rights to for-profit corporations.
Having lectured at nearly 140 institutions in 45 different states and 11 countries, Greenfield has received four teaching awards while at 艾可直播 College. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Chicago Law School, he clerked for Justice David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court and practiced at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC.听听
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