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, April 04, 2019
News
NAACP and Rule of Law Clinic File New Challenge to 2020 Census Plans
The Rule of Law Clinic at the Law School helped the NAACP, Prince George’s County, Maryland, and other plaintiffs file new claims challenging parts of the U.S. Census Bureau’s final plan for conducting the 2020 Census.Monday, July 08, 2019
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
In The Press
Mueller is Right: It’s up to Congress to Act, and Impeachment Isn’t the Only Option — A Commentary by Bruce Ackerman ’67
Los Angeles Times
Bruce Ackerman ’67 is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science.
Monday, July 8, 2019
Thursday, July 11, 2019
In The Press
Trump Halts Bid to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census
U.S. New & World Report
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman ’67 is quoted in U.S. News & World Report about President Trump’s decision not to add the citizenship question to the next census.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
In The Press
ACA Case Places Age-Old Legal Doctrine In Spotlight
Law360
Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy Abbe Gluck ’00 explains the legal doctrine of severability in an analysis of the case that could overturn the Affordable Care Act.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
In The Press
It’s Not Nice to Lie to the Supreme Court — 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, June 27, 2019
In The Press
The Law That Makes It Easy to Go to War with Iran
The New Yorker
The work of Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman ’67 is quoted.
Friday, June 21, 2019
In The Press
Why a Radical Supreme Court Reform Is Catching On
GQ
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in a story about ideas for Supreme Court reform.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
In The Press
Abortion, Equal Protection, and the ERA — Courts Then and Now
Take Care
The new book Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories, coedited by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law Reva Siegel ’86, is the subject of a symposium.
Student Profile Videos
Steve Lindsay
A student perspective on the Federalist Society and constitutional law at Yale Law School.
Mariana Velasco Rivera
A student perspective on financial aid, constitutional law, and graduate programs.
Rafael Bezerra Nunes
A student perspective on getting an LLM at Yale Law School, constitutional law, and the graduate programs community.
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Heather Gerken
Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law