Reva Siegel is Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law and Professor of American Studies at Yale University. 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 publications include Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (with Brest, Levinson, Balkin & Amar, 2006); Directions in Sexual Harassment Law (edited with Catharine A. MacKinnon, 2004); “Equality Talk: Antisubordination and Anticlassification Values in Constitutional Struggles over Brown,” Harvard Law Review (2004); “Legislative Constitutionalism and Section Five Power: Policentric Interpretation of the Family and Medical Leave Act,” Yale Law Journal (2003) (with Robert Post); “She the People: The Nineteenth Amendment, Sex Equality, Federalism, and the Family,” Harvard Law Review (2002); “Why Equal Protection No Longer Protects: The Evolving Forms of Status-Enforcing State Action” Stanford Law Review (1997); and “Reasoning From the Body: An Historical Perspective on Abortion Regulation and Questions of Equal Protection,” Stanford Law Review (1992).  She is currently co-editing a collection of essays by progressive legal scholars entitled the Constitution in 2020, and writing several articles examining the role of social movement conflict in guiding constitutional change.
 
Professor Siegel received her B.A., M.Phil, and J.D. from Yale University, clerked for Judge Spottswood Robinson on the D.C. Circuit, and began teaching at the University of California at Berkeley. She is on the boards of the American Society for Legal History, the Law and History Review, and the National Constitution Center, and is active in the American Constitution Society, in the national organization and as faculty advisor of Yale’s chapter.