Martha Minow

Martha Minow is the former Dean of Harvard Law School and has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981. Her courses have included: civil procedure, constitutional law, international criminal justice, family law, governance of artificial intelligence, jurisprudence, nonprofit organizations, law and education and the public law workshop. She has authored several books and articles and is known as an expert and an advocate for religious and racial minorities, for children, women and those with disabilities. Professor Minow has received numerous honors for her work.

President Obama named her to the Board of Legal Services Corporation in 2010, the bi-partisan organization sponsored by the government that offers civil legal help to low-income people, where she served as Vice Chair. She helped launch Imagine Co-existence, a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees program to advance peaceful growth in post-conflict areas. She partnered with the Department of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology for five years to increase curriculum-access for students with disabilities. chair of the board of Massachusetts public media (GBH), Minow previously chaired the Board of Trustees of the MacArthur Foundation and co-chaired and the Access to Justice Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  She serves on the boards of philanthropies, including the Carnegie Corporation and the SCE Foundation and co-chairs the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Professor Minow completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and then received a master's degree in education from Harvard and a law degree from Yale. She clerked for Judge David Bazelon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court of the United States.