Haywood Jefferson Powell (born April 25, 1954) is a law professor at Duke University. Before his return to Duke, he served in the Office of Legal Council at the United States Justice Department in Washington, D.C. Before this second tenure in the Justice Department, Powell was the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., a post which he accepted in 2010. Before joining The George Washington University Law Faculty, Powell had been a professor of Law at Duke University since 1987. In 1999 the Duke Bar Association presented Powell with the Excellence in Small Section Teaching Award, and in the academic year 20012002, he was Duke University's Scholar/Teacher of the year. More recently, he has been named Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Divinity. Powell is currently the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches constitutional law.
