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, September 16, 2019
News
Justice Kagan Delivers 2019 Anderson Lecture
In a wide-ranging conversation, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan spoke to a packed auditorium at Yale Law School on September 11, 2019, during the 2019-2020 Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship Lecture.
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
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Wednesday, September 18, 2019
In The Press
What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy
The New York Times
Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law Lincoln Caplan reviewed Eric Foner’s book How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
In The Press
Religious Crusaders at the Supreme Court’s Gates — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
NYTimes.com
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL is the Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
In The Press
Symposium: Textualism’s moment of truth — A Commentary by William N. Eskridge, Jr. ’78
SCOTUSblog
Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr. ’78 is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School.
Friday, August 30, 2019
In The Press
Civil Rights Turned Topsy-Turvy — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
The New York Times
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL is the Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence at Yale Law School.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
In The Press
Five Decisions That May Sway High Court On LGBT Protections
Law360
Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Sciences Vicki Schultz is quoted on cases coming before the Supreme Court that will test whether sex discrimination extends to bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
In The Press
The Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Appetite — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
The New York Times
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL is the Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence at Yale Law School.
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