Paul Brest
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Position: President
Organization: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Paul Brest is a Panel member.
Paul Brest is the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California. The foundation's grantmaking focuses on education, environment, performing arts, population, and global economic development. Mr. Brest was previously a professor at Stanford Law School, where he focused on constitutional law and problemsolving/decisionmaking, and he served as dean between 1987 and 1999. He is coauthor of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking and currently teaches a law school course on Problemsolving, Decisionmaking, and Professional Judgment. He also was a law clerk to Judge Bailey Aldrich and Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, and practiced with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in Jackson, Mississippi, doing civil rights litigation. Mr. Brest received an A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1962 and an LL.B from Harvard Law School in 1965. He holds honorary degrees from Northeastern Law School and Swarthmore College and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.