Chris Havasy is currently a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. His primary interests are in administrative law and separation of powers, with an emphasis on examining the relationships between administrative agencies and civil society. He has research and teaching interests in administrative law, constitutional law, legislation, statutory interpretation, corporate governance, and torts.

His current projects examine the political legitimacy of the administrative state; the intellectual history of radical administrative law and contemporary separation of powers; the use Enlightenment political thought in constitutional interpretation (with Josh Macey & Brian Richardson); and how corporate governance can learn from administrative law to improve the legitimacy of managerial decision-making (with Stavros Gadinis).  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 

Chris is also a Ph.D. Candidate in Government at Harvard University. Before entering his doctoral program, Chris worked at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the DOJ Criminal Division’s Office of Policy and Legislation, and the EEOC’s Appellate Services Division. Chris also has extensive pro bono experience in civil rights and criminal justice reform efforts.

He holds a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was an executive editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He also has a M.A. in Government from Harvard and a Sc.B. magna cum laude with Honors in Political Science and Honors in Biology from Brown University.