Mark V. Tushnet
Mark V. Tushnet is a professor at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed Visiting Professor of Law in 2005 and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law in 2006. Before that, he held the position of Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown Law Center. He served as a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall from 1972-73. He then was a member of the law faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison until joining the Law Center faculty in 1981. He is co-author of three casebooks, Federal Courts in the 21st Century: Policy and Practice; Constitutional Law; and co-author with Vicki Jackson of a coursebook on Comparative Constitutional Law. His other recent writings include The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education 1925-1950, which received the Littleton Griswold Award of the American Historical Association; Red, White and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law; Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961; Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991; and Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts. He was the secretary of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies from 1976–85, and is president of the Association of American Law Schools for 2004.
Education
Harvard College B.A. 1967
Yale University M.A. 1971, History
Yale Law School J.D. 1971
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