Todd D. Rakoff (born 1946) is an American legal scholar. He is the Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at

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Education and career

Rakoff is the brother of

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, a judge of the

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. He graduated from

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in 1967 with a

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in social studies. He received a

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(B.Phil.) from

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in 1969 then a M.S.Ed. in urban education from the

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in 1971. In 1975, Rakoff graduated from

. After clerking for Judge

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of the

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and practicing for the law firm of

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, he joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1979.

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