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Revision as of 04:22, 13 March 2011 by The Rhymesmith (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Paul Brest is an American scholar of constitutional law, the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and a former dean of Stanford Law School. He is an influential theorist on the role of non-profit organizations in society.
Education
Brest attended Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, and clerked for Judge Bailey Aldrich of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Justice John M. Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has done civil rights litigation in Mississippi with the NAACP, and has blogged for the Huffington Post.