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Paul Brest is the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California. He received an A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1962 and an LL.B from Harvard Law School in 1965. Paul served as law clerk to Judge Bailey Aldrich and Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, and practiced with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in Jackson, Mississippi, doing civil rights litigation before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1969, where his research and teaching focused on constitutional law and problem solving/decision making. From 1987 to 1999, he served as the dean of Stanford Law School. Together with Hal Harvey, Paul is co-author of Money Well Spent: A Strategic Guide to Smart Philanthropy (Bloomberg Press, 2008). He is also co-author of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (5th ed. 2007) and Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment (Oxford University Press, 2010) He teaches a course on Judgment and Decisionmaking in the Public Policy Program at Stanford. Paul holds honorary degrees from Northeastern Law School and Swarthmore College, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Currently teaching
GSBGEN 367: Problem Solving for Social Change
(Autumn)
EDUC 377G: Problem Solving for Social Change (Autumn) LAW 242N: Discussion (1L): Universities in Crisis (Autumn) LAW 7846: Elements of Policy Analysis (Autumn, Winter, Spring) LAW 7508: Problem Solving and Decision Making for Public Policy and Social Change (Autumn) COLLEGE 102: Citizenship in the 21st Century (Winter) LAW 810K: Policy Practicum: Improving Constructive Discourse and Civic Engagement at Stanford (Spring) RELIGST 23X: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) CSRE 31: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) PUBLPOL 3: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) LAW 7136: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) HISTORY 3C: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) PSYCH 31A: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) SOC 13: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) COMM 3: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) PHIL 30: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) POLISCI 31: Democracy and Disagreement (Winter) GSBGID 503: The University in Crisis (Spring) GSBGEN 390: Individual Research (Autumn, Spring) |