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Robert Post

Sterling Professor of Law

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Robert Post

Biography

Robert Post is Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). Dean Post’s subject areas are constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and equal protection. He has written and edited numerous books, includingDemocracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State (2012); For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (with Matthew M. Finkin, 2009); Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law (with K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Thomas C. Grey, and Reva Siegel, 2001); and Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (1995). He publishes regularly in legal journals and other publications; recent articles and chapters include “Theorizing Disagreement: Reconceiving the Relationship Between Law and Politics” (California Law Review, 2010); “Constructing the European Polity: ERTA and the Open Skies Judgments” in The Past and Future of EU Law: The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Miguel Poiares Maduro & Loïc Azuolai eds., 2010); “Roe Rage: Democratic Constitutionalism and Backlash” (with Reva Siegel, Harvard Civil-Rights Civil-Liberties Law Review, 2007); “Federalism, Positive Law, and the Emergence of the American Administrative State: Prohibition in the Taft Court Era” (William & Mary Law Review, 2006); “Foreword: Fashioning the Legal Constitution: Culture, Courts, and Law” (Harvard Law Review, 2003); and “Subsidized Speech" (Yale Law Journal, 1996). He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has an A.B. and Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

URL: http://www.law.yale.edu/RPost.htm

Activities

  • Seminario en Latinoamerica de Teoria Constitucional y Politica (SELA)
    Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Spain; Mexico; Peru; Puerto Rico; Paraguay 2008
    Participates in an ongoing seminar on law in Latin America: The Faculty Research Seminar: Seminario en Latinoamerica de Teoria Constitucional y Politica (SELA) convenes over 100 legal scholars annually to address specific themes. Seminar themes to date have included Equality, The Rule of Law, Fundamental Rights, Law as object and instrument of transformation, Violence, The limits of democracy, Law and Poverty, Executive Power, and Law and Culture. URL: http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/SE

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