Robert Post

Robert Post is Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at and Dean of Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the School of Law at University of California, Berkeley. Robert Post is a leading scholar of constitutional law, the First Amendment, and topics of legal history and equal protection. He has written and edited numerous books, including Democracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State (2012) and Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (1995). He co-authored For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic and Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law.  His work is featured regularly in legal journals and other publications, and Post won the 1998 Hughes-Gossett Award for best article in the Journal of Supreme Court History.  Post has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.  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.