Professor of Law

• Civil Rights Litigation, 
• Civil Procedure II, 
• Criminal Law I, 
• US Foreign Relations, 
• Constitutional Law I

AB, summa cum laude, Princeton University
JD, magna cum laude, Harvard Law School

John Parry's scholarly work focuses broadly on legal structures that restrain or permit the exercise of state power on individuals, with a particular emphasis on the ability of courts to mediate state authority. Before coming to Lewis & Clark, Parry was assistant and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He also practiced with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., where he litigated a variety of constitutional and criminal issues. He is a former law clerk to the Hon. James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former chair of the Supreme Court Office of the Harvard Law Review. Parry's articles and essays have appeared in a number of law reviews and edited collections, and he is currently completing a manuscript for the University of Michigan Press with the working title “Understanding Torture.”