Yale Law School
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT  06520-8215
(203) 432-6791
reva.siegel@yale.edu
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  

Deputy Dean of Intellectual Life & Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law and Professor of  American Studies, Yale Law School 1994 - Present.

Subjects: Constitutional Law; Legislative and Popular Constitutionalism; Antidiscrimination Law; American Legal History; Equality, Citizenship & Sovereignty

Felix Frankfurter Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, 2006
Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, 2001-02
Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 1998-99
Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School, 1993-94

Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 1994; Acting Professor of Law, 1988-94
Law Clerk to Honorable Spottswood W. Robinson, III, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, 1986-87

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Yale Law School, J.D., 1986
Yale University, M.Phil. in American Studies, 1982
Yale College, B.A., 1978

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

BOARDS    

Chair, Faculty Bd., Yale Chapter, American Constitution Society 
Board,  Harvard Law & Policy Review (ACS Journal), 2007-
Steering Committee, Women’s Faculty Forum, Yale University
Board,  American Society for Legal History, 2005-07
Board,  Law and History Review, 2000-
Board, Center for Worklife Law, 2007-
Board,  National Constitutional Center, 1999-
Board, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 1994-
Editor, SSRN, Law & Humanities, Legal History, Yale Public Law & Legal Theory 
   
PUBLICATIONS 

THE CONSTITUTION IN 2020 (forthcoming 2009), co-edited with Jack Balkin, including our essay on Remembering How to Do Equality and an essay co-authored with Robert Post on Democratic Constitutionalism

PROCESSES OF CONSTITUTIONAL DECISIONMAKING, with Brest, Levinson, Balkin & Amar, Aspen Publications, 5th ed. (2006). 

DIRECTIONS IN SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAW, co-edited with Catharine A. MacKinnon,  Yale University Press, 2004.  Collection of 40 essays, including my introductory essay, A Short History of Sexual Harassment 
 
ARTICLES 

Parents Involved: Anticlassification, Antisubordination, Antibalkanization, OHIO STATE L.J. (forthcoming 2009)

Dignity and the Politics of Protection: Abortion Restrictions Under Casey/Carhart, 117 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2008)

2007 Brainerd Currie Lecture. The Right's Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Women-Protective Antiabortion Argument, 57 Duke L.J. (forthcoming 2008)

Roe Rage: Backlash and Democratic Constitutionalism, 42 Harv.C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 373 (2007) (co-authored with Robert Post)

Sex Equality Arguments for Reproductive Rights: Their Critical Basis and Evolving Constitutional Expression, 56 Emory L. J. 815-42 (2007)

2006 Baum Lecture. The New Politics of Abortion: An Equality Analysis of Woman-Protective Abortion Restrictions, 2007 U. Ill. Law Rev 991-1053 (2007)

Originalism As a Political Practice: The Right’s Living Constitution, 75 Ford. L. Rev. 546-74 (2006) (co-authored with Robert Post)  
    
2005-06 Brennan Center Symposium Lecture, Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change: The Case of the de facto ERA, 94 Cal. L. Rev 1323-1419 (2006)
      
Democratic Constitutionalism: A Reply to Professor Barron, 1 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev.(Online) (Sept. 18, 2006), http://www.hlpronline.com/2006/06/post_siegel_01.html. (co-authored with Robert Post)
 
“You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby”: Rehnquist’s New Approach to Pregnancy Discrimination in Hibbs, 58 Stan. L. Rev. 1871-98 (2006)

 Principles, Practices, and Social Movements, 154 U.Penn.L. Rev. 927-50 (2006) (co-authored with Jack Balkin)

Questioning Justice: Law and Politics in Judicial Confirmation Hearings, Yale Law Journal (The Pocket Part), Jan. 2006, http://www.thepocketpart.org/2006/01/post_and_siegel.html. (co-authored with Robert Post)

 Roe as Sex Equality Opinion in What Roe Should Have Said (J.M. Balkin ed. NYU Press 2005)
 
The Jurisgenerative Role of Social Movements in U.S.Constitutional Law (for publication with the papers of the Seminario en Latino América de Teoria Constitucional y Politica (SELA), June 10-12, 2004, Oaxaca, México)

Popular Constitutionalism, Departmentalism, and Judicial Supremacy, 92 Calif. L. Rev. 1027-43 (2004) (co-authored with Robert Post)
   
Gender and the United States Constitution: Equal Protection, Privacy, and Federalism, in Constituting Women: Comparative Perspectives (eds. Ruth Rubio-Marin & Beverley Baines, Cambridge Press 2004)

Equality Talk: Antisubordination and Anticlassification Values in Constitutional Struggles Over Brown, 117 Harv. L.  Rev. 1470-1547 (2004)

 The American Civil Rights Tradition-- Anticlassification or Antisubordination?, in Issues in Legal Scholarship, The Origins and Fate of Antisubordination Theory: A Symposium on Owen Fiss's "Groups and the Equal Protection Clause," Vol. 2 BePress 2003) (http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss/2/), reprinted in 58 U. Miami L. Rev 9-33 (2004) (co-authored with Jack M. Balkin)

Legislative Constitutionalism and Section Five Power: Policentric Interpretation of the Family and Medical Leave Act, 112 Yale L.J.1943-2059 (2003) (co-authored with Robert Post)

Protecting the Constitution from the People: Juricentric Restrictions on Section Five Power, 78 Ind. L.J. 1-45 (2003)  (co-authored with Robert Post).

She the People: The Nineteenth Amendment, Sex Equality, Federalism, and the Family, 115 Harv. L. Rev. 947-1046 (2002)

Text in Contest: Gender and the Constitution from a Social Movement Perspective, 150 U. Penn. L. Rev. 297-351 (2001)

Equal Protection By Law: Federal Antidiscrimination Legislation After Morrison and Kimel, 110 Yale L.J. 441-526 ( 2000) (co-authored with Robert Post)

Discrimination in the Eyes of the Law: How “Color Blindness” Discourse Disrupts and Rationalizes Social Stratification, 88 Calif. L. Rev. 77-118 (2000), reprinted in Prejudicial Appearances (Duke Press 2001)

Collective Memory and the Nineteenth Amendment: Reasoning About “the Woman Question” in the Discourse of Sex Discrimination in History, Memory, and the Law (Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearnes eds. 1999)

The Racial Rhetorics of Colorblind Constitutionalism: The Case of Hopwood v. Texas in Race and Representation: Affirmative Action (Robert Post & Michael Rogin eds.1998)
 
Valuing Housework: Nineteenth-Century Anxieties about the Commodification of Domestic Labor, in Special Issue: Changing Forms of Payment, 41 American Behavioral Scientist 1437-51 (1998)

Civil Rights Reform in Historical Perspective: Regulating Marital Violence in Redefining Equality (Neil Devins & David Douglas eds.1998)

Why Equal Protection No Longer Protects: The Evolving Forms of Status-Enforcing State Action, 49 Stan. L. Rev.1111-1148 (1997)

“The Rule of Love”: Wife Beating as Prerogative and Privacy, 105 Yale L.J. 2117-2206 (1996)

 In the Eyes of the Law: Reflections on the Authority of Legal Discourse in Law’s Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (Peter Brooks & Paul Gewirtz eds., 1996)

 Modernizing Wife Beating in Yale Law Report (Fall 1996)

 Abortion in A Companion to American Thought (R. Fox & J. Kloppenberg eds., 1995)

Abortion As a Sex Equality Right:  Its Basis in Feminist Theory in Mothers in Law: Feminist Theory and the Legal Regulation of Motherhood (Martha Fineman & Isabel Karpin eds., 1995)

The Modernization of Marital Status Law:  Adjudicating Wives' Rights to Earnings, 1860 - 1930, 82 Geo. L.J. 2127-2211 (1995)

Home As Work:  The First Woman's Rights Claims Concerning Wives' Household Labor, 1850 - 1880, 103 Yale L.J. 1073-1217 (1994)

Reasoning From the Body: An Historical Perspective on Abortion Regulation and Questions of Equal Protection, 44 Stan. L. Rev. 261-381 (1992)

Book Review, 3 Berkeley Women's L.J. 171 (1988) (reviewing S. Lehrer, Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women, 1905 - 1915 (1987))

Employment Equality Under the Pregnancy Discrimination Amendment of 1978, 94 Yale L.J. 929 (1985)

IN PROGRESS:

Comment on Heller ("A Constitution Worth Fighting For"), 122 HARV. L. REV. (forthcoming 2008)

The Constitution's Histories: Compact, Custom, Collective Memory, and Common Law

Constitutional Patriotism and Constitutional Culture (co-authored with Robert Post)