Nationality American Role Law professor Fields Constitutional law Parents Thelma Post, Ted Post | Institutions Yale Law School Siblings Laurie Post Name Robert Post | |
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Born November 17, 1947 (age 76)
New York City ( 1947-11-17 ) Alma mater Harvard College
Yale Law School Education Harvard University (1980), Yale Law School (1977) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books Citizens Divided, Democracy - Expertise - and Acad, Constitutional domains Similar People Nancy L Rosenblum, Ted Post, Michael Paul Rogin, Seyla Benhabib | ||
Forum 12 robert post the constitutional dimensions of academic freedom
Robert Charles Post (born October 17, 1947) is dean (2009-2017) and a professor of law at Yale Law School.
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- Forum 12 robert post the constitutional dimensions of academic freedom
- compelled commercial speech with yale law dean robert post
- Biography
- References
compelled commercial speech with yale law dean robert post
Biography
Post received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1969 and earned his J.D. degree from Yale in 1977. While at Yale, he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He then clerked for D.C. Circuit Judge David Bazelon and Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Post subsequently earned a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard University, worked briefly in private practice, and started his career in law teaching at Berkeley Law in 1983. Post moved from Berkeley to Yale in 2003 and succeeded Harold Koh as Dean when Koh was appointed to serve as Legal Adviser to the U.S. State Department. Post has been quoted in the New York Times on the composition of the Supreme Court.
Post's academic interests include constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and affirmative action. His Citizens Divided (2014) looks at the constitutional aspects of electoral finance.