Kent Greenfield
Cognoscenti contributor
Kent Greenfield is a professor of law at Boston College Law School. A former Supreme Court law clerk, he is an expert in constitutional law and corporate law. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic.
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A message to my law students: 'Fight for our democracy'
Kent Greenfield is a professor of law at Boston College Law School. His final lecture of the semester is usually an upbeat summation and send-off, but not this year.
How the Supreme Court can save itself — and the rest of us
After runaway victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Donald Trump is on track to win the Republican nomination. In early February, the Supreme Court will hear Trump’s appeal of a...
What the college presidents got wrong about the First Amendment
Harvard, Penn and MIT are private institutions with the right to establish speech policies that embody their core values. Disagreements will arise about the meanings of specific phrases or words,...
America is purple. Our Supreme Court is red. Here's how to fix it
There’s no shortage of possible Supreme Court reforms. Expand the Court. Impose ethics reforms. Term limits or retirement ages. Boston College law professor Kent Greenfield has a different idea: a...
Amy Coney Barrett May Be An ‘Originalist.’ But It’s Not 1787, And The Text Isn’t Always The Text
There has never been a difficult constitutional question in our history that could be decided by the text alone, writes Kent Greenfield. The constitution is written at a level of...
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We Can't Mute Trump, But We Can Turn Off Fox News
The focus on the president's racist messaging is under-inclusive, writes Kent Greenfield. Fox News deserves blame, too.
Presidential Power And The Obligations Of Faithfulness
In our system where presidential powers are vague and evolving, norms provide a pivotal set of constraints to presidential will, writes Kent Greenfield. When they are ignored, they vanish.
'We Are Not The Enemy Of The People': Cog Contributors Respond To Attacks On The Press
In a show of solidarity, news organizations across the U.S. -- including this one -- have come together to stand up against anti-media rhetoric.
How Badly Does The GOP Want Kavanaugh? So Much That They'll Ignore Trump's Treason
If Trump knowingly won with the help of a foreign power, his entire presidency is illegitimate. If he is illegitimate, writes Kent Greenfield, so are his Supreme Court appointments.