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, January 23, 2023
News
Reproductive Rights and Dobbs
A Q&A with Professor Reva Siegel on the impacts of the Dobbs decision.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Monday, January 30, 2023
Gregory Briker ’24 and Professor Justin Driver with the Stanford Law Review issue in which their article appeared.
News
Force Multiplier
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Professor Guido Calabresi at a celebration of his 75th birthday in 2007.
News
Guido’s Tales
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
In The Press
To Fight Defamation Suit, Fox News Cites Election Conspiracy Theories
The Washington Post
Floyd Abrams Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law David Schulz ’78 comments on the Fox News defense strategy in a high-profile lawsuit over the network promoting conspiracy theories about voting machines in the 2020 presidential election.
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
In The Press
Antitrust Group, Economists Back DOJ, AGs Against Google
Law360
Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law David Dinielli comments on amicus briefs supporting antitrust enforcement actions against Google. The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic’s Tech Accountability & Competition Project filed the briefs on behalf of a group of behavioral economists.
Monday, January 30, 2023
In The Press
The Latest Crusade to Place Religion Over the Rest of Civil Society — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
The New York Times
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL is a Clinical Lecturer in Law and a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School.
Sunday, January 22, 2023
In The Press
The 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Constitutional Crisis Hotline
Clinical Lecturer in Law Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law Reva Siegel discuss how Roe v. Wade should be commemorated after the Supreme Court overruled the landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health last year. Jed Shugerman ’02 and Julie Suk ’03 host the conversation.
Thursday, January 19, 2023
In The Press
Victimhood and Vengeance
The New York Review
Clinical Lecturer in Law and a Senior Research Scholar Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL reviews three books on the contemporary rise of Christian nationalism.
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
In The Press
Debating the Validity of the Electoral College
MSNBC
Sterling Professor of Law Akhil Amar ’84 discusses the Electoral College.
Student Profile Videos
Steve Lindsay
A student perspective on the Federalist Society and constitutional law at Yale Law School.
Now it is time to pivot and ask, where are your extraordinary gifts needed? How do you make this legal world that you are entering a better world? One where no one is shut out; one where the weak and vulnerable are not exploited; one that produces fair results based on the merits of the issues before it.”
Visiting Lecturer Stephen Bright
2012 Commencement Address