Martha Minow
- Faculty Associate, 1986-
- Senior Scholar, 1991-1992
Professor Minow received her J.D. from Yale University and her EdM from Harvard. At Harvard Law School, she has taught Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Legal Profession, and Jurisprudence. Her scholarship includes articles about discrimination law affecting women, children, disabled persons and members of ethnic, racial and religious minorities, legal responses to mass violence, and issues arising from the "war on terror." She has served on the Board of the American Bar Foundation, the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center, the Revson Foundation, the W.T. Grant Foundation, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and the International Independent Commission on Kosovo. Before entering teaching, Professor Minow was a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall and for Judge Bazelon. She is the author of several books, including Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law; Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence; Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference (co-edited with Richard Shweder and Hazel Markus); and Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good.
Professor Minow was a Senior Scholar in Ethics in 1991-92 and, at Dennis Thompson's request, served as Acting Director of the Ethics Center in 1993-94 and 2000-01. She is a charter member of the Faculty Committee and has served since the founding of the Center.
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