R. Kent Greenawalt (June 25, 1936 — January 27, 2023[1]) was a legal scholar who was University Professor at Columbia Law School.
His primary interests involved constitutional law, especially First Amendment jurisprudence, and legal philosophy.
After law school, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice John Harlan.
[2] Like fellow Columbia Law graduates Constance Baker Motley and Jack Greenberg, Greenawalt was heavily involved in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Greenawalt taught at Columbia from 1965 until his death in both the law school and department of philosophy.