Richard H. Fallon Jr.
Richard H. Fallon Jr. | |
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Fallon at Harvard Law School in 2023 | |
| Born | January 4, 1952 |
| Died | July 13, 2025 (aged 73) |
| Education | Yale University (BA) University of Oxford (MA) Yale Law School (JD) |
| Title | Joseph Story Professor of Law |
| Spouse |
Jenny Fallon (m. 1982) |
| Awards | Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize (2019) Daniel Meltzer Award (2021) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Constitutional law and federal courts |
| Institutions | |
Richard Henry Fallon Jr. (January 4, 1952 – July 13, 2025) was an American legal scholar and the Joseph Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Born in Maine and a two-time graduate of Yale, Fallon became a prolific scholar of constitutional law and federal courts, teaching and writing on those subjects at Harvard from 1982 until he died in 2025.