Dr. Laura Weinrib

Biography

Laura Weinrib is the Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and a Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a legal historian whose research focuses on the transformation of constitutional categories through social movements and how these movements pursue political economic change. Her notable work includes 'Taming Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise' (Harvard University Press, 2016), in which she traces the emergence of a court-centered concept of civil liberties that has become a defining feature of American democracy. Weinrib has published extensively on American legal history, constitutional law, labor law, and the intersection of law and literature. Her current research involves writing a history of unions, corporations, and money in politics during postwar America. Weinrib is a graduate of Harvard Law School and received her PhD in history from Princeton University. Before joining Harvard's faculty in 2019, she was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and has served as a fellow in legal history at New York University.

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