John Garvey
Dean
Boston College Law School
John H. Garvey is the Dean of the Boston College Law School. He received his B.A. from Notre Dame 1970 and J.D. from Harvard University in 1974. Upon graduation from law school he clerked for Irving R. Kaufman on the Second Circuit. He later served as Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, and taught at Kentucky, Michigan, and Notre Dame before being appointed as dean of Boston College Law School in 1999. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Danforth Foundation. At age 34 he was elected to the American Law Institute. In addition, Garvey has served as chair of the Constitutional Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He currently serves as co-chair of the AALS Religion Law Section and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Irving R. Kaufman Public Service Fellowship Program at Harvard. He is also a member of the American Bar Association's Reading Committee. Garvey is the author of influential textbooks on constitutional theory and the first amendment. In 1996 he published What Are Freedoms For? (Harvard University Press), in 2002 Religion and the Constitution (Aspen), and in 2004 with T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Daniel A. Farber, Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader 5th edition (St. Paul, MN: West Thomson).
