Jamal Greene | |
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.jpg) Greene speaks at an event hosted by theSenate Democratic Caucus in 2016 | |
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| Occupation(s) | law professor, author |
| Relatives | Brenda M. Greene (mother) Talib Kweli (brother) |
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| Education | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
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| Institutions | Columbia University |
Jamal K. Greene is an American legal scholar whose scholarship focuses onconstitutional law. He is the Dwight Professor of Law atColumbia Law School.[1][2] Greene was one of four inaugural co-chairs ofFacebook'sOversight Board, a body that adjudicates Facebook's content moderation decisions.[3][4]
Greene was raised inPark Slope,Brooklyn,New York City.[5][6] His mother,Brenda Greene, is anEnglish professor atMedgar Evers College of theCity University of New York, and his father is an administrator atAdelphi University. His brother is the rapperTalib Kweli.[7][8] Greene attendedHunter College High School, where he was acenter fielder for the school baseball team.[2] He obtained aB.A. fromHarvard College in 1999, where he was a sports writer forThe Harvard Crimson.[2][9] One of his last pieces for that publication reflected on his experience as a "black kid from Brooklyn" spending four years "in the Ivy bubble".[10]
After graduation, Greene worked atSports Illustrated.[7] He received aJD fromYale Law School in 2005[1] and clerked for JudgeGuido Calabresi of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, from 2005 to 2006, and for JusticeJohn Paul Stevens of theSupreme Court of the United States, from 2006 to 2007.[2][7]
In 2008, Greene joined the Columbia Law School faculty.[2]
In 2020, he was named to Facebook'sOversight Board, an entity established to provide occasionalprecedential decisions regarding selected appeals of content decisions made by the company.[3] He left the Board in January 2023.[11]
Greene is the author ofHow Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession With Rights Is Tearing America Apart (2021). The book argues thatUnited States constitutional law inappropriately grants strong protection to a small set ofconstitutional rights, as opposed to more limited protection to a broader set of rights.[12][13] He further argues that this approach has hardened positions and reduced the ability for those with differing views to compromise.[13] The work praisesproportionality review as an alternative to American constitutional adjudication.[12]
His additional writings in articles and book chapters include: "Selling Originalism"; "Giving the Constitution to the Courts", a review of Keith E. Whittington'sPolitical Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, The Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History; "BeyondLawrence: Metaprivacy and Punishment"; "Lawrence and the Right to Metaprivacy"; "Divorcing Marriage from Procreation"; "Judging Partisan Gerrymanders Under the Elections Clause"; "Hands Off Policy: Equal Protection and the Contact Sports Exemption of Title IX"; and "Disappearing Dilemmas: Judicial Construction of Ethical Choice as Strategic Behavior in the Criminal Defense Context".[14][15][16]
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