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Constitutional Law

How We Are Involved

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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 aspects of constitutional law are plentiful — through lecture series, special events, courses, and more.

Our Faculty

Course Offerings

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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  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, volunteer opportunities, and working in the Law School’s clinical programs.

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Publications & Journals

Yale Law School faculty members produce some of the widely cited work on constitutional theory and student-run journals run offer articles by prominent scholars, practitioners, and students on the theory and practice of constitutional law.

Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository

The Yale Law Journal

Student Journals and Publications

Feb
19

Dan Israel, “What's Left of the Left? Chile’s Constitutional Experiment and the Rise of Kast”

12:10PM - 1:30PM
Dan Israel, “What's Left of the Left? Chile’s Constitutional Experiment and the Rise of Kast”
Feb
19

3L Perspectives on the Clerkship-Application Process 

4:10PM - 5:00PM
3L Perspectives on the Clerkship-Application Process 
Feb
26

Jens Meierhenrich, “The Violence of Foreign, Comparative, and International Law”

12:10PM - 1:30PM
Jens Meierhenrich, “The Violence of Foreign, Comparative, and International Law”
Mar
5

Nicole Ramos, Advocacy & Refuge at the U.S.-Mexico Border When the Rule of Law Fails

12:10PM - 1:30PM
Nicole Ramos, Advocacy & Refuge at the U.S.-Mexico Border When the Rule of Law Fails
Apr
1

Foundations of American Legal Thought Public Lectures: Keith Whittington

12:10PM - 1:00PM
Foundations of American Legal Thought Public Lectures: Keith Whittington
Apr
15

Foundations of American Legal Thought Public Lectures: Reva Siegel

12:10PM - 1:00PM
Foundations of American Legal Thought Public Lectures: Reva Siegel

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