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, October 31, 2022
News
Conference Hosts Conversations on Threats to Transparency and the Media
The Access and Accountability Conference (AAC) returned for its sixth edition this year and gathered legal scholars, practitioners and journalists to discuss protecting newsgatherers, promoting transparency, and enabling government accountability
Thursday, November 03, 2022
Thursday, November 03, 2022
Monday, November 21, 2022
Fatima Goss Graves ’01 and Lecturer in Law Emily Bazelon ’00 held a discussion about the impact of the Dobbs decision.
Monday, November 14, 2022
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik speaks at the conference honoring the 40th anniversary of her influential paper “Managerial Judges.”
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
In The Press
Diversity on Trial: Affirmative Action’s Michigan Test
Bloomberg / UnCommon Law podcast
Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law Cristina Rodríguez ’00 discusses issues around affirmative action at colleges and universities.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
In The Press
A Controversial Election Theory at the Supreme Court Is Tied to a Disputed Document
NPR
Sterling Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar ’84 tells why a disputed version of a plan presented at the 1787 Constitutional Convention does not help answer the core questions raised in a Supreme Court case on redistricting.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
In The Press
In Clash Over Affirmative Action, Both Sides Invoke Brown v. Board of Education
The New York Times
Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law Justin Driver comments on the use of Brown v. the Board of Education by people on both sides of the issue of affirmative action.
Friday, October 28, 2022
In The Press
On Affirmative Action, What Once Seemed Unthinkable Might Become Real — 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.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
In The Press
Affirmative Action Isn’t Dead Yet — A Commentary by Justin Driver
The New York Times
Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
In The Press
A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent
The New York Review of Books
Clinical Lecturer in Law and a Senior Research Scholar Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL reviews Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America’s Schools by Stephen Breyer.
Student Profile Videos
Mariana Velasco Rivera
A student perspective on financial aid, constitutional law, and graduate programs.
Teddy Ray
A second-career student reflects on his YLS experience, including Complex Civil Litigation, and his hopes for afterward.
Saif Zihiri
A perspective on the MENALSA and Muslim Law Students communities and interests including tech, national security civil liberties issues, and journals.
The students at YLS are not only unique, incredibly smart, and passionate but also extremely caring and always determined to offer their support. I have made lifelong friends who have been there for me throughout my time here, and who will remain a very important part of my life forever.”
Evelin Caro Gutierrez
Class of 2022