Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.

Ronald S. Sullivan, Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. is the Jesse Climenko Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the director of the Criminal Justice Institute.

His areas of interest include criminal law, criminal procedure, legal ethics, and race theory. Prior to teaching at Harvard, Professor Sullivan served on the faculty of the Yale Law School, where, after his first year teaching, he won the law school’s award for outstanding teaching. Professor Sullivan is the faculty director of the Harvard Trial Advocacy Workshop and faculty director, emeritus, of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute. He also is a founding fellow of the Jamestown Project at Yale. From 2009-2019, Professor Sullivan served as faculty dean of Winthrop House at Harvard College, the first African American ever appointed to that position in Harvard’s history.

In 2008, Professor Sullivan served as Criminal Justice Advisory Committee Chair for then-Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and later was as a member of the National Legal Advisory Group for the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign.

Professor Sullivan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College and Harvard Law School,  where he served as president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association and as general editor of the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal.