Philip L. Harvey

Associate Professor of Law and Economics. Professor Harvey earned his B.A. at Yale University in 1968, his Ph.D. in economics at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in 1976, and his J.D. at Yale Law School in 1988. Before attending law school, he was a tenured professor of economics at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Carter in the Southern District of New York and spent four years as a litigation associate with the law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton in New York City. He has been a visiting professor of law and economics at the Yale School of Organization and Manage­ment, the Joanne Woodward Professor of Public Policy at Sarah Lawrence College, and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Professor Harvey is the author of Securing the Right to Employment (1989) and coauthor, with Theodore Marmor and Jerry Mashaw, of America`s Misunderstood Welfare State (1990). His articles include "Human Rights and Economic Policy Discourse: Taking Economic and Social Rights Seriously" (Columbia Human Rights Law Review), "Combating Joblessness: An Analysis of the Principal Strategies that Have Influenced the Develop­ment of American Employment and Social Welfare Law during the 20th Century" (Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law), "Joblessness and the Law before the New Deal" (Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy), and "Monitoring Mechanisms for International Agreements Respecting Economic and Social Human Rights" (Yale Journal of International Law).