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1Name:  Mr. Larry D. Kramer
 Institution:  William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
 Year Elected:  2005
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1958
   
 
In the fall of 2012 Larry Kramer became President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, stepping down as Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean of the Stanford Law School. He graduated from Brown University in 1980 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1984. After law school, he clerked for Judge Henry Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the United States Supreme Court. Dr. Kramer joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School in 1986, becoming a full professor in 1989. He left Chicago for the University of Michigan in 1990 and went from there to New York University in 1994. He became the Russell D. Niles Professor of Law in 2001 and the Associate Dean for Academics and Research in 2003. Dr. Kramer left NYU to assume the deanship of Stanford in 2004. He has written extensively in the areas of constitutional law and history, federal courts, conflict of laws, and civil procedure. He served as Reporter to the Federal Courts Study Committee, and before becoming dean, consulted regularly with the New York office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw. His current research interests are primarily in the areas of constitutional law and history.
 
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2005 (1)