Haywood Jefferson Powell (born April 25, 1954)[1] is an American law professor at Duke University.
Before his return to Duke, he served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Justice Department in Washington, D.C. Before this second tenure in the Justice Department, Powell was the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., a post which he accepted in 2010.
More recently, he has been named Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Divinity.
[3] Powell has published several books in the fields of constitutional law and legal history.
A graduate of St. David’s College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) and of the Yale Law School and Yale Divinity Schools, Powell also has a Ph.D. in Christian theological ethics from Duke University and held a joint appointment in the Divinity School at Duke.