How We Are Involved
About Constitutional Law
The Law School is renowned as a center for scholarship in constitutional law, and prominent scholars are well represented on the School’s faculty. Opportunities to study, research, and write on this topic are plentiful, and the Law School provides a range of opportunities—from lecture series and special events, to an exhaustive list of courses—for students to focus on various aspects of constitutional law.
Activities
A variety of the Law School’s centers and workshops, lecture series, and special events deal specifically with constitutional law issues.
Publications & Journals
The Yale Law School faculty produce some of the world’s foremost works on constitutional theory and student journals offer articles by prominent scholars, practitioners, and students on the theory and practice of constitutional law.
Tuesday, August 08, 2023
News
Leadership Program Reading Groups Confront Challenging Questions
Reading groups are an important component of The Tsai Leadership Program and have covered topics like leading in crisis, domestic extremism, identity, and failure.
Thursday, September 07, 2023
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Student reading groups can provide an intimate setting for challenging conversations.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023
In The Press
Does the Constitution Prevent Trump from Running for President in 2024?
CT Public / The Wheelhouse
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman ’67 discusses the 14th Amendment.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
In The Press
William Eskridge on 303 Creative v. Elenis Decision and Impact
C-SPAN/Washington Journal
Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law William Eskridge ’78 discussed the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative v. Elenis decision.
Thursday, August 17, 2023
In The Press
‘This Is an Existential Threat’: Will AI Really Eliminate Actors and Ruin Hollywood? Insiders Sound Off
Variety
Sterling Professor of Law Robert Post ’77 discusses filmmaking and artificial intelligence.
Thursday, August 17, 2023
In The Press
Pittsburgh Journalist Sues Allegheny County Over Jail 'Gag Order' Policies
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic has helped bring a lawsuit against Allegheny County by a journalist that claims a county jail “gag order” violates jail staff’s First Amendment right.
Thursday, July 6, 2023
In The Press
For Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Law Is in the Details — A Commentary by Stephen L. Carter ’79
Stephen L. Carter ’79 is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
In The Press
Aim Lower — A Commentary by Lara Bazelon and James Forman Jr. ’92
New York Magazine — Intelligencer
Lara Bazelon is a professor of law and the director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinical Programs at the University of San Francisco School of Law. James Forman Jr. ’92 is J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Student Profile Videos
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A perspective on the MENALSA and Muslim Law Students communities and interests including tech, national security civil liberties issues, and journals.
I will remember most about my time here the wonderful conversations and interactions with my peers and with my professors. This is a wonderful community, very welcoming, and an amazing place to have studied the law.”
Allison Turbiville
Class of 2015