Richard H. Fallon Jr.

Richard H. Fallon Jr.
Fallon at Harvard Law School in 2023
BornJanuary 4, 1952
DiedJuly 13, 2025(2025-07-13) (aged 73)
EducationYale University (BA)
University of Oxford (MA)
Yale Law School (JD)
TitleJoseph Story Professor of Law
Spouse
Jenny Fallon
(m. 1982)
AwardsThomas M. Cooley Book Prize (2019)
Daniel Meltzer Award (2021)
Academic work
DisciplineConstitutional 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.