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, January 21, 2021
News
Free Exercise Clinic Launches Interactive Workshop Series
This spring, Yale Law School’s Free Exercise Clinic is launching an interactive workshop, and has invited students and faculty in the religious liberty clinics at Harvard, Stanford and Texas to join each of the seven class sessions.Saturday, January 16, 2021
In The Press
The Other Tragedy of January 6 — A Commentary by Robert Post ’77
The Atlantic
Robert Post is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Friday, January 08, 2021
In The Press
President Donald Trump is likely to pardon himself
BBC News
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman ’67 was interviewed by the BBC News, where he discussed the likelihood of President Trump pardoning himself.
Wednesday, December 09, 2020
In The Press
Another Victory For DACA Advocates In Court
WNPR
Clinical Associate Professor of Law Marisol Orihuela ’08 and Medha Swaminathan ’22 were interviewed on WNPR about the latest legal victory to protect DACA recipients. Plaintiffs are represented in part by the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic.
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Event
THE SUPREME COURT IN CRISIS: Structural Reform for a Broken Institution (Session 2)
12:00PM
Online
Monday, July 27, 2020
1:10:05
Thursday, January 21, 2021
In The Press
John Roberts Shouldn’t Preside Over Impeachment Trial. Nor Should Kamala Harris — A Commentary by Bruce Ackerman ’67
The Boston Globe
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale.
Monday, January 18, 2021
In The Press
Can The Senate Try An Ex-President?
NPR / Morning Edition
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Amar ’84 spoke to National Public Radio about whether the Senate can try an ex-president.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
In The Press
A $1 Verdict Could Actually Be Meaningful — A Commentary by Stephen Carter ’79
Bloomberg.com
Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
In The Press
The Other Tragedy of January 6 — A Commentary by Robert Post ’77
The Atlantic
Robert Post is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
In The Press
The Supreme Court After Trump — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
NYTimes.com
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL is Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
In The Press
Trump is understandably tempted to pardon himself. It won’t work. — A Commentary by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
The Washington Post
Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr. is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School.
Student Profile Videos
Janine Balekdjian
A student perspective on constitutional law, gender law, and the Journal of Law and Feminism at Yale Law School.
Steve Lindsay
A student perspective on the Federalist Society and constitutional law at Yale Law School.
Sam Adkisson
A student perspective on clinics, student organizations, and the intellectual community at Yale Law School.
At Yale, I treasured being part of a close community of students, faculty, alumni, practitioners, and staff committed to understanding and critiquing the law. I draw on lessons I learned from that community every day in my career as an economic justice lawyer.”
Casey Pitts
Class of 2008, Partner, Altshuler Berzon LLP