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.
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
News
Can We Fix What’s Wrong with Social Media?
A look at how Yale Law School alumni, faculty, and students are grappling with some of the most difficult questions in the online environment.
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Saturday, June 25, 2022
In The Press
The Trump Court Limited Women’s Rights Using 19th-Century Standards — A Commentary by Reva Siegel
The Washington Post
Reva Siegel is Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Professor Daniel Markovits ’00 (center) was among the Law School faculty and students who attended the Seminar in Latin America on Constitutional and Political Theory in Santiago, Chile.
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Marchers in Washington, D.C. protest to end gun violence in 2021.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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Monday, March 1, 2021
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Monday, July 27, 2020
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Friday, July 22, 2022
In The Press
Religious Doctrine, Not the Constitution, Drove the Dobbs Decision — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
The New York Times
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL is Clinical Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
In The Press
How the Overturning of Roe V. Wade Could Impact IVF
KING 5
Clinical Lecturer in Law and Director of the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice Priscilla Smith ’91 is quoted about the potential impact of personhood bills on fertility treatments.
Monday, July 11, 2022
In The Press
Supreme Court Turns to History: How Does Past Speak to the Present?
The Christian Science Monitor
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Jack Balkin and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law Reva Siegel are quoted about the extent to which history and tradition are a focus for the current Supreme Court.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
In The Press
The New Threat to Good Schooling For Minority Americans
The Washington Post
Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law Justin Driver’s scholarship is cited in regards to possible legal challenges to Plyler v. Doe, the 1982 case that gave undocumented children access to public schools.
Friday, July 8, 2022
In The Press
The Supreme Court Has Sided with Doctors in An Opioids Case. What This Means for Future Cases
KJZZ/ Fronteras Desk
Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law Abbe Gluck ’00 discussed recent Supreme Court decisions that sided with two doctors convicted of illegally dispensing drugs without a legitimate medical purpose.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
In The Press
Opinion: The Dangerous Election Theory the Supreme Court May Be Poised to Endorse
CNN
Scholarship by Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Reed Amar ’84 and Vikram Amar ’88 is cited in regards to the “Independent State Legislature” theory which is set to be tested in the upcoming Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper.
Student Profile Videos
Rafael Bezerra Nunes
A student perspective on getting an LLM at Yale Law School, constitutional law, and the graduate programs community.
Janine Balekdjian
A student perspective on constitutional law, gender law, and the Journal of Law and Feminism at Yale Law School.
Sam Adkisson
A student perspective on clinics, student organizations, and the intellectual community at Yale Law School.
You can make a difference… The history of the last 40 years happened because people like you entered the fray and chipped away at problems that they were told were politically impossible to fix.”
Michael Posner
Honorary Doctor of Laws, 2014 Commencement Address