Robert Post is Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). Professor Post’s subject areas are constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and affirmative action. He has written dozens of articles in legal journals and other publications, including “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); “Foreword: Fashioning the Legal Constitution: Culture, Courts, and Law” (Harvard Law Review, 2003); and “Subsidized Speech" (Yale Law Journal, 1996). He has also written and edited numerous books, including For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (with Matthew M. Finkin, 2009); Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law (with K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Thomas C. Grey, and Reva Siegel, 2001); and Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (1995). He has an A.B. and Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Education
Ph.D., Harvard, (History of American Civilization), 1980
J.D., Yale, 1977
B.A., Harvard, 1969

Courses Taught
Constitutional Law
First Amendment
Interpretation in Law and Literature
Legislative and Popular Constitutionalism
Rethinking Sovereignty