"The Importance of Constitutional Norms in America" with Robert Post (Cancelled)
Editor's note: Post will not be able to attend due to weather on the East Coast.
Join us for a conversation, followed by Q&A, with former Dean of Yale Law School Robert Post.
* Students interested in pre-law are encouraged to attend.
Post is a Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and served as the school's 16th dean, from 2009 until 2017. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
Post’s subject areas are constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and equal protection. He has written and edited numerous books, including "Citizens Divided: A Constitutional Theory of Campaign Finance Reform" (2014), which was originally delivered as the Tanner Lectures at Harvard in 2013. 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); 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 is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society