Richard H. Fallon Jr.

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Richard Henry Fallon Jr. (born January 4, 1952) is an American legal scholar and the Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

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Early life and education

Fallon was born in Augusta, Maine, on January 4, 1952, [1] and attended Yale College, graduating in 1975 with a bachelor of arts degree. He then accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he completed an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1977. Fallon returned to the United States and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1980. Fallon subsequently served as a law clerk for J. Skelly Wright and Lewis F. Powell, then began his teaching career at Harvard Law School in 1982, where he was appointed to a full professorship in 1987. [1] [2]

Career

In 2005, Fallon was named Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, succeeding Laurence Tribe, [3] [4] and later became the Story Professor of Law, [2] a position formerly held by Daniel Meltzer. Fallon is a member of the American Law Institute, [5] as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [6] Other awards Fallon has received include the 2019 Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, [7] and the 2021 Daniel J. Meltzer Award from the Association of American Law Schools. [8]

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