Jamal Greene

Jamal K. Greene is an American legal scholar whose scholarship focuses on constitutional law. He is the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Greene was one of four inaugural co-chairs of Facebook's Oversight Board, a body that adjudicates Facebook's content moderation decisions.

Early life and education Greene was raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City. His mother, Brenda Greene, is an English professor at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, and his father is an administrator at Adelphi University. His brother is the rapper Talib Kweli. Greene attended Hunter College High School, where he was a center fielder for the school baseball team. One of his last pieces for that publication reflected on his experience as a "black kid from Brooklyn" spending four years "in the Ivy bubble".

After graduation, Greene worked at Sports Illustrated.

Writing Greene is the author of How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession With Rights Is Tearing America Apart (2021). The book argues that United States constitutional law inappropriately grants strong protection to a small set of constitutional rights, as opposed to more limited protection to a broader set of rights. He further argues that this approach has hardened positions and reduced the ability for those with differing views to compromise.