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Kenneth W. Mack is the Lawrence D. Biele Professor at Harvard Law School and affiliate professor of History at Harvard University. A scholar of the legal and constitutional history of American race relations, his work focuses on the connection between racial-professional identity and civil rights lawyering in the early twentieth century United States. Mack serves as the co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History.

Mack’s 2012 book, Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, a National Book Festival Selection, awarded honorable mention for the J. Willard Hurst Award by the Law and Society Association, and was a finalist for the Julia Ward Howe Book Award. He is also the co-editor of In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries and The New Black: What Has Changed — And What Has Not — With Race in America.

He has taught at Harvard, Stanford, and Georgetown Universities, and the University of Hawai’i, and has served as senior visiting scholar, Centre for History and Economics at University of Cambridge. He received the Harvard Law School Student Government Teaching and Advising Award and was appointed by President Obama to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. He is also a member of the American Law Institute.

Mack holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.