Paul Brest,

Paul Brest is the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California.  Mr. Brest received an A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1962 and an LL.B from Harvard Law School in 1965. He served as law clerk to Judge Bailey Aldrich and Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, and practiced with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in Jackson, Mississippi, doing civil rights litigation before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1969, where his research  and teaching focused on constitutional law and problem solving/decision making.  From 1987 to 1999, he served as the dean of Stanford Law School.  Mr. Brest is co-author of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (4th ed. 2000), and currently teaches a law school course on Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment.  He holds honorary degrees from Northeastern Law School and Swarthmore College, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.