Dr. Kenneth Mack

Biography

Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and an Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History. His notable publication, 'Representing Race: Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer' (Harvard University Press, 2012), was selected as a Washington Post Book of the Year and recognized at the National Book Festival. He co-edited 'Legal History: Boundaries' (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024), and 'The New Black: Changed – Race in America' (New Press, 2013). His scholarship has appeared in prestigious journals such as the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. A former Radcliffe Fellow, Mack has taught at several prominent institutions including Stanford and Georgetown. He received the Harvard Law School Student Government Teaching and Advising Award in 2020 and has been involved in various initiatives exploring the history of capitalism. Mack began his career as an electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories before transitioning into law and history. He has formerly worked as a law clerk for Honorable Robert L. Carter in New York and has practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

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