Laurence Tribe
American lawyer and Harvard Law School professor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is an American legal scholar who is a University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He previously served as the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School.
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Born | Laurence Henry Tribe (1941-10-10) October 10, 1941 (age 82) |
Awards | American Philosophical Society’s Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence (2013)[1] |
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Education | Harvard University (AB, JD) |
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Discipline | Constitutional law |
Notable students | Barack Obama[2] Ted Cruz John Roberts[3] Elena Kagan[4] Merrick Garland[5] Kathleen Sullivan[2] Jamie Raskin Adam Schiff |
Laurence Tribe's opening statement to the Supreme Court in Bowers v. Hardwick Recorded March 31, 1986 |
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A constitutional law scholar,[6][7] Tribe is co-founder of the American Constitution Society. He is also the author of American Constitutional Law (1978), a major treatise in that field, and has argued before the United States Supreme Court 36 times.[8] Tribe was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010.[9]