Professor Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Siegel’s writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution.
Her articles include: The “Levels of Generality” Game: History and Tradition in the Roberts Court, 47 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y (forthcoming 2024), Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It, 134 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2025) (with Mary Ziegler); The History of History and Tradition: The Roots of Dobbs’s Method (and Originalism) in the Defense of Segregation, 133 Yale L.J.F. 99 (2023); Guided by History: Protecting the Public Sphere from Weapons Threats under Bruen, 98 N.Y.U. Rev. 1795 (2023) (with Joseph Blocher); Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance, 101 Tex. L. Rev. 1127 (2023); Equal Protection in Dobbs and Beyond: How States Protect Life Inside and Outside of the Abortion Context, 43 Colum. J. of Gender & the Law 67 (2023) (with Serena Mayeri & Melissa Murray); The Politics of Constitutional Memory, 20 Geo. J. L & Pub. Pol’y 19 (2022); Answering the Lochner Objection: Substantive Due Process and the Role of Courts in a Democracy, 96 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 1902 (2021) (with Douglas NeJaime); The Constitutionalization of Disparate Impact—Court-Centered and Popular Pathways, 106 Cal. L. Rev. 2001 (2019); and Community in Conflict: Same-Sex Marriage and Backlash, 64 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1728 (2017). Her books include Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (8th ed. 2022) (with Sanford Levinson, Jack Balkin, Akhil Amar & Cristina Rodriguez); Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories (2019) (co-edited with Melissa Murray & Kate Shaw), and Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling (2d ed. 2012) (with Linda Greenhouse).
Professor Siegel is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History. She serves on the board of Advisors and the Board of Academic Advisors of the American Constitution Society and on the General Council of the International Society of Public Law.
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law Reva Siegel appeared on the podcast to speak about her recent paper for the Yale Law Journal with Mary Ziegler.
September 10, 2024 Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe collaboration between the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and the recently closed Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism was highlighted.
Scholars in the Majority World Initiative have produced eight new publications revealing new ways global social media platforms can be weaponized through online propaganda.
A new collection of essays explores how the advent of artificial intelligence stands to impact the digital public sphere.
