Nikolas Bowie
Nikolas Bowie | |
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| Occupation | Law professor |
| Title | Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law |
| Parent | Lani Guinier |
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| Alma mater | Yale College, Harvard Law School, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| Thesis | Corporate America: A History of Corporate Statehood Since 1629 (2018) |
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| Discipline | Law, History |
| Institutions | Harvard Law School |
Nikolas Bowie is an American legal scholar and historian. He is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the author of the textbook Federal Constitutional Law.
Early life and education
[edit]Bowie grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.[1] His mother was Harvard law professor Lani Guinier.[2][3]
Bowie attended Yale College, earning a BA in history in 2009,[4] then Harvard University where he earned his MA in history in 2011, JD in 2014 and PhD in history in 2018.[4] His dissertation was entitled Corporate America: A History of Corporate Statehood Since 1629.[1] In law school, he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and was on the winning team in the Ames Moot Court Competition as an oralist.[5]
Career
[edit]Bowie served as a law clerk for Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Supreme Court.[4] Bowie joined Harvard Law School as an assistant professor in 2018[1] and was promoted to professor in 2022.[5] Bowie is on the boards of the ACLU of Massachusetts, City of Cambridge Planning, Lawyers for Civil Rights, MassVote, and People’s Parity Project. Bowie also served on the postconviction and appellate panel of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the public defender agency of Massachusetts.[1][5][6]
Bowie is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.[4] He is the author of the textbook Federal Constitutional Law and of the forthcoming book Supremacy: How Rule by the Court replaced Government by the People with Daphna Renan.[7] He is frequently featured in the media as an expert on law.[8][9][10][11] He has also provided testimony in Congressional hearings on the Supreme Court.[12]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Nikolas Bowie '14 to join Harvard Law as assistant professor". hls.harvard.edu. January 18, 2018. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
- ↑ "Lani Guinier: The principle underlying her work was the principle of fair play". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
- ↑ Risen, Clay (2022-01-07). "Lani Guinier, Legal Scholar at the Center of Controversy, Dies at 71". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
- 1 2 3 4 "Nikolas Bowie". Harvard Law School. Retrieved June 19, 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Nikolas Bowie, constitutional law and legal history scholar, named professor of law". Harvard Law School. June 9, 2022. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
- ↑ "Dr. Nikolas Bowie, MassGov". hls.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
- ↑ "Who Decides What the Constitution Means? | The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences". gsas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
- ↑ Bowie, Nikolas; Renan, Daphna (2026-05-02). "Opinion | Who Will Stand Up to the Supreme Court Justices?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
- ↑ Bowie, Nikolas; Renan, Daphna (2022-06-08). "The Supreme Court Is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power and Congress should claw it back". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
- ↑ Bowie, Nikolas (2021-07-06). "How the Supreme Court Dominates our Democracy". The New York Times. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
- ↑ "Professor Cited by Dershowitz, Dershowitz is wrong". cnn.com. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
- ↑ "Legal Experts Testify on Proposal to Add Supreme Court Justices". cspan.org. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
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