Paul Brest
Paul Brest · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Constitutional scholar of interpretation and antidiscrimination law; Stanford Law dean
1940, Jacksonville, Florida, United States
United States
Paul Brest is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Constitutional scholar of interpretation and antidiscrimination law; Stanford Law dean
Brest is an American legal scholar who reshaped the study of constitutional interpretation — coining the term 'originalism' in a critical 1980 essay — and of antidiscrimination law, and who served as dean of Stanford Law School. His mother was a Jewish refugee who was forced to emigrate from Vienna in 1938, and he is of documented Jewish descent.
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Constitutional scholar of interpretation and antidiscrimination law; Stanford Law dean
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