R. Kent Greenawalt

Like fellow Columbia Law graduates Constance Baker Motley and Jack Greenberg, Greenawalt was heavily involved in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He spent one summer working for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in Jackson, Mississippi and from 1966-69 served on the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He was also a member of the Due Process Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1969 to 1971. He then served as Deputy Solicitor General from 1971-72.

Greenawalt has taught at Columbia since 1965 in both the law school and department of philosophy. He has also taught at Princeton University. He was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (1972–73) and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (1979). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy from 1991-93. He was also the Chief Reporter for revisions to the Model Penal Code in 1970s.[2]

Greenawalt has three sons ranging in age from twenty-four to seventeen in 1995. He was widowed in 1988 after the passing of his wife Sanja Milić Greenawalt. He married Elaine Pagels, a scholar in religion and a widow with two children, in June 1995. [1]

• Conflicts of Law and Morality (1987)
• Religious Convictions and Political Choice (1988)
• Speech, Crime, and the Uses of Language (1989)
• Law and Objectivity (1992)
• Fighting Words (1995)
• Rationales for Freedom of Speech (1995)
• Private Consciences and Public Reasons (1995)
• Does God Belong in Public Schools? (2005)

• Constitutional law
• United States constitutional law
• United States Constitution