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Constitutional Law

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.

Faculty

Course Offerings

Activities

A variety of the Law School’s centers and workshops, lecture series, and special events deal specifically with constitutional law issues.

Special events like the Global Constitutionalism Seminar offer an unparalleled opportunity for students to sit in on discussions with some of the world’s foremost jurists from around the world.

Student organizations like chapters of the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society often provide spirited debate during public events held at the Law School.

Students can also experience the Constitution in action through work at law firms, volunteering for political campaigns, and working in the Law School’s clinical programs.

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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.

The Yale Law Journal

Nov
21

Applying to 1L Jobs: The Process and Details

12:10PM - 1:00PM
Applying to 1L Jobs: The Process and Details
Nov
21

Arrogance, Showing Off, and Hiding the Ball: The Dangers of Judicial Rhetoric for American Democracy

12:10PM - 1:15PM
Arrogance, Showing Off, and Hiding the Ball: The Dangers of Judicial Rhetoric for American Democracy
Nov
21

Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals Semifinals

6:00PM - 8:00PM
Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals Semifinals
Nov
22

Conference on the Scholarship of Professor Gordon Wood, Day 1

9:00AM - 5:15PM
Conference on the Scholarship of Professor Gordon Wood, Day 1
Nov
22

Legal Challenges to the Trump Administration

12:10PM - 1:00PM
Legal Challenges to the Trump Administration
Nov
23

Conference on the Scholarship of Professor Gordon Wood, Day 2

9:00AM - 12:00PM
Conference on the Scholarship of Professor Gordon Wood, Day 2

The small size of the Law School and the amazing faculty allowed me to work and develop my research one-on-one with professors. Having a professor supervise my work was undoubtedly one of the most amazing and enriching experiences I had at YLS.