Martha Minow

Dean of the Faculty of Law

Research Interests

• Equality and Inequality
• Human Rights and Transitional Societies
• Law and Social Change
• Religion and Pluralism

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Civil Procedure
• Equality
• First Amendment
• Human Rights
• Law and Education
• Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations

Education

• University of Michigan A.B. 1975, History
• Harvard Graduate School of Education Ed.M. 1976
• Yale Law School J.D. 1979
• Wheelock College Ed.D. (Honorary) 1998
• University of Toronto S.J.D (Honorary) 2006

Appointments

• Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Senior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
• Assistant Professor of Law, 1981
• Professor of Law, 1986
• Acting Director, Harvard University Program on Ethics and the Professions, 1993-94, 2000-01
• William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Law, 2003-2004
• Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, 2005
• Dean of the Faculty of Law, 2009

Representative Publications

• Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy (Jody Freeman & Martha L. Minow eds., Harvard University Press 2009).
• Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference (Martha L. Minow, Richard Shweder & Hazel Markus eds., Russell Sage Foundation 2008).
• Minow, Martha L. “Living Up to Rules: Holding Soldiers Responsible for Abusive Conduct and the Dilemma of the Superior Orders Defence,” 52 McGill Law Review 1 (2007).
  Full text: WWW
• Minow, Martha L. “Tolerance in an Age of Terror,” 16 University of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 453 (2007).
  Full text: WWW
• Minow, Martha L. “Should Religious Groups Ever Be Exempt From Civil Rights Laws?” 48 Boston College Law Review 781 (2007).
  Full text: WWW
• Minow, Martha L. “Outsourcing Power: How Privatizing Military Efforts Challenges Accountability, Professionalism, and Democracy,” 46 Boston College Law Review 989 (2005) (article review).
  (revised and updated version in Government by Contract, co-edited with Jody Freeman, 110 (Harvard University Press, 2009))
• Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (Martha L. Minow ed., Beacon Press 2002).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
• Minow, Martha L. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (Beacon Press 1998).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  (Awarded the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit, 2000)
• Minow, Martha L. Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law (Cornell University Press 1990).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)

Bibliography

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