Kent Greenawalt is a University Professor at Columbia Law School. His interests include constitutional law and jurisprudence, with special emphasis on church and state, freedom of speech, legal interpretation, and criminal responsibility.

Greenawalt was the deputy U.S. solicitor general from 1971 to 1972. He was law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan when he served on the Supreme Court, and, subsequently spent part of a summer as an attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in Jackson, Miss.

From 1966 to 1969, Greenawalt served on the New York City Bar Association’s civil rights committee.

He has been a fellow several times at Clare Hall, Cambridge; All Souls College, University of Oxford; and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.