H. W. Perry, Jr.

Biography

Professor Perry has been a member of the faculty at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis. He is the field chair in Public Law and he teaches both in the Department of Government and the Law School. Professor Perry specializes in the U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional interpretation, and the intersection of law and politics. His works in progress include a study of decision making in the U.S. Department of Justice.

His book, Deciding to Decide: Agenda-Setting in the United States Supreme Court (Harvard, 1991), was awarded the Wilson Prize by the Board of Syndics of the Harvard Press and the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association, as well as the 2007 Wadsworth Publishing Award, Awarded by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. He has co-authored Civil Liberties (8th ed.) and has written articles on the Supreme Court and the U.S. Attorneys.

Awards/Honors:
He has received an Arts and Sciences Faculty Award from Washington University, a Levenson Teaching Award, a Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award from Harvard and the Texas Excellence Teaching Award.