Nikolas Bowie

Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Nikolas Bowie is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is a historian who teaches courses in federal constitutional law, state constitutional law, and local government law. His research focuses on critical legal histories of democracy in the United States. With Daphna Renan, he is the author of "Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People"(W.W. Norton & Co., September 2026). Professor Bowie received a BA in history from Yale and a JD and PhD in history from Harvard. He clerked for Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the US Supreme Court.