Haywood Jefferson Powell (born April 25, 1954)date & year of birth, full name according to LCNAF CIP data is an American lawyer, author, and law professor at Duke University.
Education A graduate of St. David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) and of the Yale Law School and Yale Divinity Schools, Powell also has a Ph.D. in Christian theological ethics from Duke University and held a joint appointment in the Divinity School at Duke.
Career
Government positions Powell served in both the federal and state governments as a deputy assistant attorney general and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Bill Clinton, and as special counsel to the Attorney General of North Carolina. He has briefed and argued cases in both federal and state courts, including Shaw v. Reno before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Law professor Following a second tenure Justice Department, Powell served the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. from 2010 to 2012. Before joining The George Washington University Law Faculty, Powell had been a professor of law at Duke University since 1989. In 1999, the Duke Bar Association presented Powell with the Excellence in Small Section Teaching Award, and in the academic year 2001–2002, he was Duke University's Scholar/Teacher of the year. More recently, he has been named Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Divinity. Powell is currently a professor of law at Duke University, where he teaches constitutional law and leads the school's First Amendment Clinic.
Published works Powell has published several books in the fields of constitutional law and legal history executive power, and constitutional interpretation. +YearTitlePublisher1993The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism: A Theological Interpretation1999The Constitution and the Attorneys General2002A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and PoliticsUniversity of Chicago Press2008Constitutional Conscience: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision2014The President as Commander in Chief: An Essay in Constitutional Vision2016Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of the U.S. Drone WarOxford University Press2022The Practice of American Constitutional LawCambridge University Press
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