2024 Enlund Scholar-in-Residence
Professor Martha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where she served as dean for eight years. An expert on constitutional law, human rights, and legal advocacy for marginalized individuals and groups, Minow’s many books include SAVING THE NEWS: WHY THE CONSTITUTION CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT ACTION TO PRESERVE THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH (2021); WHEN SHOULD LAW FORGIVE? (2019) and IN BROWN’S WAKE: LEGACIES OF AMERICA’S CONSTITUTIONAL LANDMARK (2010). Her recent publications include “Distrust of Artificial Intelligence: Sources and Responses from Computer Science and Law,” with Cynthia Dwork,
Daedalus (2022), and “Social Media, Distrust, and Regulation,” with Newton Minow, Nell Minow and Mary Minow, Lee. C. Bolling and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds., in SOCIAL MEDIA, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, AND THE FUTURE OF OUR DEMOCRACY (2022).
Minow currently serves as chair of the board of directors for the MacArthur Foundation and co-chair of the Access to Justice project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She previously served on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Countering Violent Extremism and on the Independent International Commission Kosovo.
Her honors include the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women in Legal Education section of the American Association of Law Schools; the Freedom of the Press Career Achievement Award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Sargent Shriver Equal Justice Award; the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize, Brandeis University; and nine honorary degrees from schools in three countries.
The Enlund Scholar-in-Residence Program
Established in 1988, thanks to a gift from the late E. Stanley Enlund (JD ’42), the Enlund Scholar-in-Residence Program attracts the nation’s foremost legal minds. Enlund scholars provide the College of Law community of students, faculty, alumni and friends with differing perspectives on law, lawyers and social justice.
DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider. This event has been approved for up to
one hour of CLE credit.