Subdivision
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| | 1 | Name: | 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? : |
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| | | 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. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Robert D. Putnam | | | Institution: | Harvard University; Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Robert D. Putnam is Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. He has received numerous scholarly honors, including the Skytte Prize, the most prestigious global award in political science. He has written fourteen books, translated into more than twenty languages, including Bowling Alone and Making Democracy Work, both among the most cited publications in the social sciences in the last half century. His recent books include: (with David E. Campbell, 2012) American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which won the American Political Science Association’s 2011 Woodrow Wilson award as the best book in political science, and (with Shaylyn Romney Garrett, 2020) The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. He has consulted for the last three American presidents, the last three British prime ministers, the current French president, and hundreds of grassroots leaders and activists in many countries. He is now working on three major projects: (1) Inequality and opportunity: a growing class gap among American young people and the implications for social mobility; (2) The changing role of religion in the United Kingdom and the US; and (3) The social consequences of hard times in the United Kingdom and the US. He was awarded the 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. | |
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