| Laurence Tribe | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 10, 1941 Shanghai, China |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Constitutional law |
| Institutions | Harvard Law School |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Notable students | Kathleen Sullivan Barack Obama John G. Roberts |
Laurence Henry Tribe (born in Shanghai, October 10, 1941) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. He also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
Tribe is generally recognized as one of the foremost constitutional law scholars and Supreme Court practitioners in the United States. He is the author of American Constitutional Law (1978), the most frequently cited treatise in that field, and has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court 34 times.
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Biography
Education
Tribe attended Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California. He holds an A.B. in Mathematics, summa cum laude from Harvard College (1962), and a J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1966). Tribe was a champion policy debater at Harvard, and later a college coach and high school summer institute teacher.
Career
Tribe served as a law clerk to Matthew Tobriner on the California Supreme Court from 1966-67, and as a law clerk to Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967-68. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in 1968, receiving tenure in 1972.
In addition to his stature as a scholar, Tribe is noted for his extensive support of liberal legal causes. He has argued many high-profile cases, including one for Al Gore during the disputed U.S. presidential election, 2000. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Tribe's client in Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986, holding that a Georgia state law criminalizing sodomy, as applied to consensual acts between persons of the same sex, did not violate fundamental liberties under the principle of substantive due process. However, he was vindicated in 2003, when the Supreme Court overruled Bowers in Lawrence v. Texas. He wrote the ACLU's amicus curiae brief supporting Lawrence, who was represented by Lambda Legal.
Tribe continues to strongly support liberal political causes. He is one of the co-founders of the liberal American Constitution Society, the law and policy organization formed to counter the conservative Federalist Society.
He actively supported the candidacy of President Barack Obama, and describes Obama as "the best student I ever had."[1] Alongside Harvard's Cass Sunstein, Tribe served as judicial adviser to Obama's campaign.[2]
Family
Tribe has two children, Mark and Kerry, who are both internationally recognized visual artists.
Cases
A complete list of the 34 cases Tribe has argued in the U.S. Supreme Court as of the end of 2005 is as follows:
| Case | Citation | Year | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 'Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia | 448 U.S. 555 | 1981 | win |
| Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness | 452 U.S. 640 | 1981 | loss |
| Crawford v. Board of Education | 458 U.S. 527 | 1982 | loss |
| Larkin v. Grendel’s Den | 459 U.S. 116 | 1982 | win |
| White v. Massachusetts Council | 460 U.S. 204 | 1983 | win |
| Pacific Gas & Electric v. California | 461 U.S. 190 | 1983 | win |
| Hawaii Housing Auth. v. Midkiff | 467 U.S. 229 | 1984 | win |
| Northeast Bancorp v. Fed. Reserve | 472 U.S. 159 | 1985 | win |
| Board of Education v. National Gay Task Force | 470 U.S. 159 | 1985 | win |
| Fisher v. City of Berkeley | 475 U.S. 260 | 1986 | win |
| Bowers v. Hardwick | 478 U.S. 186 | 1986 | loss |
| Pennzoil v. Texaco | 481 U.S. 1 | 1986 | win |
| Schweiker v. Chilicky | 487 U.S. 412 | 1988 | loss |
| Granfinanciera v. Nordberg | 492 U.S. 33 | 1989 | loss |
| Sable Communications v. FCC | 492 U.S. 115 | 1989 | draw |
| Adams Fruit v. Barrett | 494 U.S. 638 | 1990 | win |
| Rust v. Sullivan | 500 U.S. 173 | 1991 | loss |
| Cipollone v. Liggett | 505 U.S. 504 | 1992 | win |
| TXO v. Alliance Resources | 509 U.S. 443 | 1993 | win |
| Honda Motor Co. v. Oberg | 512 U.S. 415 | 1994 | loss |
| U.S. v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone | 516 U.S. 415 | 1996 | draw |
| Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party | 520 U.S. 351 | 1997 | loss |
| Vacco v. Quill | 521 U.S. 793 | 1997 | loss |
| Amchem Products v. Windsor | 521 U.S. 591 | 1997 | win |
| Baker v. General Motors | 522 U.S. 222 | 1998 | win |
| AT&T v. Iowa Utilities Board | 525 U.S. 366 | 1999 | loss |
| Ortiz v. Fibreboard | 527 U.S. 815 | 1999 | win |
| Bush v. Gore I | 531 U.S. 70 | 2000 | loss |
| New York Times Co. v. Tasini | 533 U.S. 438 | 2001 | loss |
| U.S. v. United Foods | 533 U.S. 405 | 2001 | win |
| FCC v. NextWave | 537 U.S. 293 | 2002 | win |
| State Farm v. Campbell | 538 U.S. 408 | 2003 | loss |
| Nike v. Kasky | 539 U.S. 654 | 2003 | loss |
| Johanns v. Livestock Marketing Association | 544 U.S. 550 | 2005 | loss |
Tribe has argued 26 cases in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals:
| Case | Citation | Circuit | Year | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide Church of God v. California | 623 F.2d 613 | 9th Cir. | 1980 | loss |
| Grendel's Den v. Goodwin | 662 F.2d 102 | 1st Cir. | 1981 | win |
| Pacific Legal Foundation v. State Energy Resources | 659 F.2d 903 | 9th Cir. | 1981 | win |
| U.S. v. Sun Myung Moon | 718 F.2d 1210 | 2d Cir. | 1983 | loss |
| Romany v. Colegio de Abogados | 742 F.2d 32 | 1st Cir. | 1984 | win |
| Westmoreland v. CBS | 752 F.2d 16 | 2d Cir. | 1984 | loss |
| Colombrito v. Kelly | 764 F.2d 122 | 2d Cir. | 1985 | win |
| Texaco v. Pennzoil | 784 F.2d 1133 | 2d Cir. | 1986 | loss |
| U.S. v. Bank of New England | 821 F.2d 844 | 1st Cir. | 1987 | loss |
| U.S. v. Gallo | 859 F.2d 1078 | 2d Cir. | 1988 | loss |
| U.S. v. GAF Corporation | 884 F.2d 670 | 2d Cir. | 1989 | loss |
| U.S. v. Western Electric Company | 900 F.2d 283 | D.C. Cir. | 1999 | win |
| Fineman v. Armstrong World Industries | 980 F.2d 171 | D.C. Cir. | 1992 | draw |
| U.S. v. Western Electric Company | 993 F.2d 1572 | D.C. Cir. | 1993 | win |
| Lightning Lube v. Witco Corporation | 4 F.3d 1153 | 3d Cir. | 1993 | draw |
| Hopkins v. Dow Corning Corporation | 33 F.3d 1116 | 9th Cir. | 1994 | win |
| Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone v. U.S. | 42 F.3d 181 | 4th Cir. | 1994 | win |
| Georgine v. Amchem Products, Inc. | 83 F.3d 610 | 3d Cir. | 1996 | win |
| BellSouth Corp. v. F.C.C. | 144 F.3d 58 | D.C. Cir. | 1998 | loss |
| SBC Communications v. F.C.C. | 154 F.3d 226 | 5th Cir. | 1998 | loss |
| City of Dallas v. F.C.C. | F.3d 341 | 5th Cir. | 1999 | draw |
| U.S. West v. Tristani | 182 F.3d 1202PDF (90.5 KB) | 10th Cir. | 1999 | loss |
| U.S. West v. F.C.C. | 182 F.3d 1224PDF (220 KB) | 10th Cir. | 1999 | win |
| Southwest Voter Registration v. Shelley | 344 F.3d 914PDF (23.0 KB) | 9th Cir. | 2003 | loss |
| Pacific Gas and Elec. v. California | 350 F.3d 932PDF (144 KB) | 9th Cir. | 2003 | loss |
| General Electric v. E.P.A. | 360 F.3d 188PDF (49.8 KB) | D.C. Cir. | 2004 | win |
Publications
- Books
- The Invisible Constitution (2008)
- American Constitutional Law (treatise) (1978, 1979, 1988, and 2000)
- On Reading the Constitution (1991) (co-author with Michael Dorf)
- Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)
- Constitutional Choices (1985)
- God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History (1985)
- The Supreme Court: Trends and Developments (1979, 1980, 1982, 1983)
- When Values Conflict: Essays on Environmental Analysis, Discourse, and Decision (1976) (ed.)
- The American Presidency: Its Constitutional Structure (1974)
- Channeling Technology Through Law (1973)
- Environmental Protection (1971) (co-author with Louis Jaffe)
- Technology: Processes of Assessment and Choice (1969)
- Articles
- 'The Curvature of Constitutional Space: What Lawyers Can Learn From Modern Physics' (1989) 103 Harvard Law Review 1
See also
References
- ^ Schoenberg, Shira (November 14, 2007). "Law expert: Obama will preserve Constitution". Concord Monitor. http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071114/NEWS01/711140429/1217/NEWS98.
- ^ Egelko, Bob (2008-10-20). "Next president will shape Supreme Court". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/19/MNES13IOES.DTL&type=politics.
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