Reva Siegel is Deputy Dean and the 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) and Directions in Sexual Harassment Law (edited with Catharine A. MacKinnon, 2004). 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, with special attention to questions of abortion.  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.  

Education
J.D., Yale, 1986
M.Phil., Yale, 1982
B.A., Yale, 1978

Courses Taught
Antidiscrimination Law
Constitutional Law
Democratic Constitutionalism
Equality, Citizenship, and Sovereignty