Speaker Profile
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Jack M. Balkin Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Yale Law School. |
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Professor Balkin received his Ph.D in philosophy from Cambridge University, and his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University. He served as a clerk for Judge Carolyn D. King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine, and Moore in New York City before entering the legal academy. He has been a member of the law faculties at the University of Texas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a visiting professor at Harvard University, the Buchman Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and the University of London. Professor Balkin is founder and director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, an interdisciplinary center devoted to the study of law and the new information technologies. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) as well as a founding member of the Conference on Law, Culture, and the Humanities. A prominent legal theorist and constitutional scholar, Professor Balkin's work ranges over many different fields, from philosophy to politics, from theories of cultural evolution to legal and musical interpretation. His books include Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life, Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (4th ed., with Brest, Levinson and Amar), and What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said. He lives in Branford, Connecticut. |
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