Scott 

BREWER

Professor Scott Brewer is a Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University (1997) and a J.D. from Yale Law School (1988), where he was the Editor-in-Chief for Volume 97 of the Yale Law Journal. He was a law clerk for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals (1989-90) and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the United States Supreme Court (October Term 1990).

Professor Brewer writes and teaches about the nature and uses of arguments (including but not limited to legal arguments), the role of arguments in law (and specifically, contract law and the law of evidence), politics, and “everyday life.” He also teaches and writes about the central question of what constitutes a fulfilled life, as for example, in the course The Fulfilled Life and the Life of the Law, taught at Harvard Law School and in universities in Europe and Asia.