Biography
Jess Bravin, a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, has covered the Supreme Court since 2005 and is now on sabbatical to write a book and teach at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. Bravin’s earlier postings include United Nations correspondent, national legal affairs reporter, and editor of the WSJ/California weekly. He is the author of “The Terror Courts,” an account of military trials at Guantanamo Bay, and “Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme,” and a contributor to “Violence in America: An Encyclopedia,” “Crimes of War 2.0” and “A Concise Introduction to Logic” (2nd ed.). Bravin has held the John Jacobs Fellowship at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and Graduate School of Journalism, delivered the John Field Simms Sr. Memorial Lecture in Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, and served on the municipal Ethics Commission in Takoma Park, Md. Educated at Harvard and Berkeley, Bravin served on the UC Board of Regents and the city of Berkeley’s Police Review Commission while in law school.
