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.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
News
Students Create Supreme Court Reform Website
A new website created by several Yale Law students provides a way to learn about the history of the Supreme Court and includes detailed reform options.Friday, September 11, 2020
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Friday, August 28, 2020
Friday, September 11, 2020
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Event
THE SUPREME COURT IN CRISIS: Structural Reform for a Broken Institution (Session 2)
12:00PM
Webinar (12 pm to 1:30 pm EST)
Monday, July 27, 2020
1:10:05
Monday, October 19, 2020
In The Press
Originalism in a diverse America: How does Amy Coney Barrett’s judicial philosophy square with who was left out of the Constitution?
The Washington Post
Professor of Law Justin Driver is quoted in a Washington Post article about constitutional originalism.
Friday, October 16, 2020
In The Press
The Supreme Court We Need — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
The New York Review of Books
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL is Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
In The Press
Republican Judges Are Quietly Upending Public Health Laws — A Commentary by John Fabian Witt ’99
The New York Times
John Fabian Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
In The Press
The size of the Supreme Court is only part of the problem — A Commentary by Judith Resnik
CNN.com
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Founding Director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
In The Press
Making the Supreme Court Safe for Democracy — A Commentary by Samuel Moyn and Ryan D. Doerfler
The New Republic
Samuel Moyn is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a Professor of History at Yale University. Ryan D. Doerfler is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
In The Press
Mike Pence Does Not Respect Life
Slate
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law Reva Siegel is quoted in a Slate article about Vice President Pence.
Student Profile Videos
Rafael Bezerra Nunes
A student perspective on getting an LLM at Yale Law School, constitutional law, and the graduate programs community.
Jahnavi Sindhu
A student perspective on the LLM program, constitutional law, and the community at Yale Law School.
At Yale Law School, we think hard about law, with freedom to challenge basic assumptions embedded within our legal institutions and to construct new frameworks.”
Monica Bell
Class of 2009, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology