Huge news in the academic world. My superstar former student Sherif Girgis has been appointed to a tenured full professorship at Harvard Law School. Sherif, who is currently a professor at the excellent Notre Dame Law School, is the lead co-author (with Ryan T. Anderson and me) of *What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense*. He is a powerful defender of the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions, and a critic of gender ideology.
Sherif was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton, where he received prizes for the best thesis in ethics and the best thesis in philosophy. He also received the International Dante Prize. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford where he completed the BPhil in philosophy. He received a JD degree from Yale Law School where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, then clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit for Judge Tom Griffith and on the Supreme Court of the United States for Justice Samuel Alito. He returned to Princeton where he earned his PhD in philosophy.
Congratulations to Harvard (and its distinguished Dean, John Goldberg--another former student of mine) for snagging a truly extraordinary young scholar and teacher. And congratulations to Sherif!
Professional update: This spring, I will join
@Harvard_Law School’s faculty as a tenured professor, teaching constitutional law, jurisprudence, and related subjects. 1/11