Leadership & Staff
Yochai Benkler
Faculty Director
Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Sophie Jean
Program Coordinator
Sophie Jean is responsible for administrative support for the Program and is a member of the law school’s Faculty Support Services team. A graduate of McGill University, Sophie is a dedicated volunteer at the Boston Rape Crisis Center and a local support program for the incarcerated.
Sanjay Jolly
Executive Director & Program Fellow
Sanjay Jolly is an attorney, organizer, and scholar who studies the political economy of global information networks. He was previously the C. Edwin Baker Fellow at the media reform organization Free Press.
Research Fellows
Joey Alpert
Student Fellow (2023-24)
Joey Alpert is a third-year JD student at Harvard Law School, where he studies how antitrust issues in the private defense industry affect national defense spending and priorities. His research is inspired by his prior active duty service as a Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy, during which he earned a master’s degree in Defense and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College.
Aidan Calvelli
Student Fellow (2023-24)
Aidan Calvelli is a third-year JD student at Harvard Law School and an Articles Editor on the Harvard Law Review. He writes on the law of democracy, focusing on how inequality and polarization affect civic participation.
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Everest Fang
Student Fellow (2023-24)
Everest Fang is a second-year JD student at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on understanding how environmental, natural resources, and land-use law are co-constructed with political and economic power structures.
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Pierre-Christian Fink
Visiting Scholar (2022-24)
Pierre-Christian Fink is a historical sociologist who studies rulemaking and rule evasion in the postwar U.S. money market. He was previously a Visiting Scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.
Brian Highsmith
Academic Fellow (2023-25)
Brian Highsmith is an Academic Fellow at LPE@HLS and a PhD candidate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. After graduating from Yale Law School, he was a Skadden Fellow at the National Consumer Law Center. He previously worked on domestic economic policy, including in a U.S. Senate office and at President Obama’s National Economic Council.
Iman Masmoudi
Student Fellow (2023-24)
Iman Masmoudi is a third-year JD student at Harvard Law School who studies comparative Islamic and Anglo-American legal history from a distributive justice perspective. Before law school, she founded an ethical clothing cooperative in Tunisia and studied classical Islamic history at Cambridge and Harvard.
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Jacquelene Mwangi
Student Fellow (2023-24)
Jacquelene Mwangi is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School who studies the international politics of the digital economy. Her research focuses on distributional effects of global and local relations that make up the digital economy in developing nations.
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Chika Okafor
Academic Fellow (2022-24)
Chika Okafor is the inaugural Academic Fellow in Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School, where he is also a Lecturer on Law. As an economist and a lawyer with diverse policy experience, he uses the tools of economics, law, and public policy to explore foundational matters of justice.
Dan Rohde
Student Fellow (2023-24)
Dan Rohde is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School, where he researches the legal history of money and banking, particularly in Canada. His dissertation research focuses on the Bank of Canada, though he has also researched and published on Canadian money in the colonial period and legal historiography. Before entering Harvard Law School, Dan worked at a union-side law firm, at a legal clinic, and, before that, as an elementary school teacher.
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E.T. Stone
Student Fellow (2023-24)
E.T. Stone is a PhD candidate in Harvard University’s American Studies program whose research explores the role of private law in creating the conditions of possibility for relationships of care and cooperation in the United States. She holds a JD from Yale Law School.
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Sharon Block
Sharon Block is a Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, she served as the senior official delegated the duties of the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in President Joe Biden’s White House.
Nikolas Bowie
Nikolas Bowie is an assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School. He is a historian who teaches courses in federal constitutional law, state constitutional law, and local government law. His research focuses on critical legal histories of democracy in the United States.
Guy-Uriel E. Charles
Guy-Uriel Charles teaches and writes about election law, race and law, constitutional law, and civil procedure. He is the founding director of the Duke Law Center on Law, Race and Politics.
Andrew Manuel Crespo
Andrew Manuel Crespo is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches criminal law and procedure and serves as the Executive Faculty Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration.
Christine A. Desan
Christine Desan teaches about the international monetary system, the constitutional law of money, constitutional history, political economy, and legal theory. She is the co-founder of Harvard’s Program on the Study of Capitalism.
Ryan D. Doerfler
Ryan Doerfler is a Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the role of the judiciary within a democratic system.
Michael J. Klarman
Michael Klarman is the Charles Warren Professor of Legal History at Harvard Law School, where he joined the faculty in 2008.
Kenneth W. Mack
Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also the co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History.
Alexandra Natapoff
Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert. She writes about criminal courts, public defense, plea bargaining, wrongful convictions, and race and inequality in the criminal system.
Daphna Renan
Daphna Renan is the Peter B. Munroe and Mary J. Munroe Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on the U.S. presidency and the design of American democracy from the perspective of administrative and structural constitutional law.
Benjamin I. Sachs
Benjamin Sachs is the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School and a leading expert in the field of labor law and labor relations.
Laura Weinrib
Laura Weinrib is the Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
