Dr. Jamal Greene

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Jamal Greene is a constitutional law expert whose scholarship focuses on the structure of constitutional argument. He teaches courses on constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, law and the political process, and the Amendment process in the federal courts. Greene served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice from January 2023 to December 2024. He is the author of the book 'Rights Went Wrong: How Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart' (HMH, March 2021) and has written numerous law review articles on topics including constitutional rights adjudication, constitutional theory, and originalism. His work critically examines landmark Supreme Court cases and argues for a more nuanced understanding of constitutional analysis. During the 2018–2019 academic year, Greene served as a senior visiting scholar at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, where he oversaw new scholarly research on free speech in the context of new communications platforms. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and held various positions at Columbia Law School, including Vice Dean for Intellectual Life. Greene is a sought-after media commentator on Supreme Court matters and has contributed to publications such as New York Magazine and Slate.

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