Haywood Jefferson Powell (born April 25, 1954) is a law professor at

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. 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

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, a post which he accepted in 2010. Before joining The George Washington University Law Faculty, Powell had been a professor of Law at

since 1987. In 1999 the Duke Bar Association presented Powell with the ''Excellence in Small Section Teaching'' Award, and in the academic year 2001–2002, he was Duke University's ''Scholar/Teacher of the year''. More recently, he has been named Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Divinity. Powell is currently a Professor of Law at Duke University, where he teaches constitutional law and leads the school's First Amendment Clinic. Powell has published several books in the fields of constitutional law and legal history. He has published with presses as diverse as University of Chicago Press, Duke University Press,

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, and others. He also coauthored a multimedia work, ''The Contracts Experience'' a tool for teaching contracts law. Powell served in both the

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and

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s as a deputy assistant attorney general and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice under President

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, and as special counsel to the Attorney General of

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. He has briefed and argued cases in both federal and state courts, including ''

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'' before the

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. A graduate of St. David’s College (now the

University of Wales, Lampeter University of Wales, Lampeter ( cy, Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest Academic degree, degree awarding institution in Wale ...

) and of the

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and

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s, Professor Powell also has a

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in Christian theological ethics from Duke University and held a joint appointment in the Divinity School at Duke.

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