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.
Monday, July 26, 2021
News
Home Is Here
Yale Law School faculty, alumni, and students look back at a tumultuous four years fighting for a more just immigration system.
Friday, September 10, 2021
In The Press
60 Words, 20 Years
RadioLab
Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona Hathaway ’97 and Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh were interviewed about the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
Tuesday, August 03, 2021
In The Press
Context and Consequences: On Akhil Reed Amar’s “The Words That Made Us”
Los Angeles Review of Books
The new book by Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Reed Amar is reviewed.
Monday, June 7, 2021
Event
Bruen and a Progressive Approach to the Second Amendment
12:10PM
Private Location (rsvp to display)
Monday, March 1, 2021
4:19
Monday, July 27, 2020
1:10:05
Friday, September 17, 2021
In The Press
Texas Bounty Hunters, or a Private Army? — A Commentary by Paul W. Kahn ’80
Austin American-Statesman
Paul W. Kahn ’80 is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and the Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.
Friday, September 17, 2021
In The Press
How the Supreme Court Is Quietly Bolstering the Power of Religion
WNYC
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL discusses what recent Supreme Court rulings say about the current makeup’s views on religious liberties.
Sunday, September 12, 2021
In The Press
Where Roe v. Wade Stands After Texas Abortion Ban Allowed To Go Into Effect
ABC News
Clinical Lecturer in Law Priscilla Smith comments on the Texas abortion ban.
Friday, September 10, 2021
In The Press
60 Words, 20 Years
RadioLab
Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona Hathaway ’97 and Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh were interviewed about the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
Thursday, September 9, 2021
In The Press
God Has No Place in Supreme Court Opinions — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
The New York Times
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL is a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
In The Press
Most Extreme Abortion Law in U.S. Takes Effect in Texas
The Guardian
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law Reva Siegel and Melissa Murray ’02 comment on the new Texas abortion law.
Student Profile Videos
Janine Balekdjian
A student perspective on constitutional law, gender law, and the Journal of Law and Feminism at Yale Law School.
Rafael Bezerra Nunes
A student perspective on getting an LLM at Yale Law School, constitutional law, and the graduate programs community.
Yale Law School is about as perfect as a true and serious interdisciplinary hub for the law-related social sciences and humanities as one could possibly imagine.”
Taisu Zhang ’08
Professor of Law