Paul A. Gowder

Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law

Paul Gowder is the Frederic P. Vose Professor of Law at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law. He is the author of three books: The Rule of Law in the Real World, The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation, and The Networked

Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms. His research spans fields including political and legal philosophy, racial justice, constitutional theory, platform governance, and classical Athenian law. A member of the Global Rule of Law Commission of the European Public Law Organization and the American Law Institute, he holds a Ph.D. from Stanford in political science and a J.D. from Harvard. Formerly, he was a legal aid and civil rights lawyer.