Caleb Yong

Caleb Yong researches and writes on freedom of speech, internet regulation, constitutional law and theory, and immigration and citizenship law. His writing has appeared in such venues as the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, the Journal of Social Philosophy, and Social Theory and Practice.

Caleb obtained his JD from Yale Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Justice Scott L. Kafker of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He also practiced law as an associate at McDermott, Will & Schulte in Washington, D.C., focusing on administrative law and appellate litigation.

Prior to law school, Caleb was trained in political theory and philosophy, receiving a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he won the Sir Ernest Barker Prize for best dissertation in political theory from the Political Studies Association. He then served as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, Harvard University, Goethe University Frankfurt, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. He received a BA from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in the history of political thought from the University of Cambridge. He can be reached at caleb (dot) yong (at) yale (dot) edu.