Martha Minow
300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University; Former Dean, Harvard Law School
Chair, GBH Board of Trustees
Martha Minow is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University, and former dean of Harvard Law School. She teaches Constitutional Law, Nonprofit Organizations Law, and courses on AI and law. A graduate of the University of Michigan (1975), where she majored in history, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (1976), and Yale Law School (1979), where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, Minow has also received honorary degrees from 11 institutions from three countries. Her research addresses constitutional law and democracy, the news media, societies grappling with mass violence and conflict, legal treatments of members of religious minorities and persons with disabilities, as well as and new technologies and law. Her books include Saving the News (Oxford University Press) and Between Vengeance and Forgiveness (Beacon Press). Minow served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Court of Appeals Judge David Bazelon. She served on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and assisted in launching Imagine Coexistence, a program of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees; she led policy development for the federally-funded National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (Center for Applied Special technology), advancing university design of K-12 teaching materials. She currently is a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation; She served as Chair of the MacArthur Foundation, and served on boards several other foundations. She is one of the daughters of former Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow.
