Lawrence M. Friedman Professor of Law

Professor Friedman teaches Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and State Constitutional Law. Before joining the New England Law faculty in 2004, he was a visiting assistant professor of law at Boston College Law School and a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School. Before teaching, he was an associate with Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston, focusing on environmental, land use, Internet, and government enforcement litigation. He recently completed a three-year term as a member of the Boston Bar Council and is president of the board of directors of Massachusetts Appleseed, a center for law and justice that has several ongoing projects related to educating homeless children, keeping kids in school, and reducing the incidence of juvenile delinquency. He served as a law clerk with the New Hampshire Superior Court and then as law clerk to the Hon. John T. Broderick, Jr., of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He has published numerous articles on constitutional law, the Massachusetts constitution, privacy law, and other topics.

 Selected Publications

The Case for Congress: Separation of Powers and the War on Terror (2009), with Professor Victor Hansen, available from Ashgate Publishing.

Justice Martha B. Sosman and the Jurisprudence of Rights and Remedies, 42 New Eng. L. Rev. 397 (2008)

Reactive and Incompletely Theorized State Constitutional Decision-making, 77 Miss. L.J. 265 (2007)

Reconsidering Rational Basis: Equal Protection Review Under the Wisconsin Constitution, 38 Rutgers L.J. 1071 (2007)

The Case Against Secret Evidence, 12 Roger Willliams U. L. Rev. 772 (2007), (with Victor M. Hansen)

Domestic Electronic Surveillance and the Constitution, 24 John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law 177 (2006)

Ordinary and Enhanced Rational Basis Review in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: A Preliminary Investigation, 69 Alb. L. Rev. 415 (2006)

Reckoning with Dissonance: Thoughts on State Constitutional Law and Constitutional Discourse, 40 New Eng. L. Rev. 437 (2006)

The Army and the Constitution: Time for Congress to Step In, in Jurist Forum (March2006), (with Victor M. Hansen)

Congress Should Champion the Advice of Military Lawyers, in Jurist Forum (September2006), (with Victor M. Hansen)

Public Opinion and Strict Scrutiny Equal Protection Review: Higher Education Affirmative Action and the Future of the Equal Protection Framework , 24 B.C. Third World L.J. 267 ( 2004)

The Constitutional Value of Dialogue and the New Judicial Federalism, 28 Hastings Const. L.Q. 93 (2000)

In Defense of Corporate Criminal Liability, 23 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 833 (2000)

Questions of Intent: Environmental Crimes and "Public Welfare" Offenses, 10 Vill. Envtl. L J. 1 (1999) (with H. Hamilton Hackney III).

On Human Rights, the United States and the People's Republic of China at Century's End, 4 J. Int'l Stud. 241 (1998).