Craig Green

Craig Green is the Steven M. Goldstein professor of law and the Editor in Chief of Law & History Review. He received a PhD from Princeton’s history department in 2018, while simultaneously teaching full time at Temple Law School. His dissertation Creating American Land analyzed relationships among union, states, territories, and Native Lands in the 1700s, claiming that such categories were mutually constitutive and contemporaneously developed under U.S. constitutional law. He has analyzed similar issues in Beyond States, 90 U. Chi. L. Rev. 213, United/States, 119 Mich. L. Rev. 1, and Who Were the Real Founders?, 121 Colum. L. Rev. 2269.

Professor Green has examined various aspects of the modern Supreme Court and Presidency, including Telling the Truth about Loper Bright, 99 So. Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming), Ending the Korematsu Era, 105 Nw. U. L. Rev. 983, An Intellectual History of Judicial Activism, 58 Emory L.J. 1195, and Repressing Erie’s Myth, 96 Calif. L. Rev. 595. He has been invited to deliver lectures about related topics on four continents.

Professor Green is an accomplished teacher of subjects ranging from Civil Procedure to Native American Constitutional Law, from Legal History to Administrative Law, and from Federal Courts to Reproductive Justice. He received Temple Law School’s teaching award in 2009 and 2015, he was the youngest recipient of Temple University’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2010, and the law school nominated him for Temple’s highest teaching prize in 2016.

Before entering the academy, Professor Green was a law clerk for Judge Louis H. Pollak and Judge Merrick B. Garland. He was a Bristow Fellow with the Solicitor General’s Office, and he worked for the Civil Appellate Staff in the Department of Justice. He has filed successful briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and several courts of appeals.