Akhil Reed Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School.
Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 after clerking for Judge Stephen Breyer, 1st U.S Circuit Court of Appeals.
Of his many publications, Amar is co-editor of a leading constitutional law casebook, “Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking.” He is the author of several books, including The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles, Yale University Press, 1997; The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction, Yale University Press, 1998; and America's Constitution: A Biography, Random House, 2005. His book The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of our Constitutional Republic, Basic Books, 2015 was released last year. Amar’s next book The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era will be published in September 2016.
Amar was awarded the Devane Medal—Yale’s highest award for teaching excellence in 2008. He served as a consultant on the popular show The West Wing and his work has also been showcased on several TV shows, including The Colbert Report, Charlie Rose and The MHP Show. Amar has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic and Slate.
Amar received his J.D. in 1984 from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of The Yale Law Journal, and his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale College in 1980.
Philip Bobbitt is a leading constitutional scholar and influential writer on constitutional law and theory. His early work including Constitutional Fate and Constitutional Interpretation first identified the six fundamental forms of constitutional argument. His later work has concerned the nature of the constitutional order and its relationship to international security. His recent teaching, essays, and best-selling books address the most challenging issues of the day, including presidential impeachment, responses to terrorism, and coming changes in world order.
Bobbitt has written 10 books, including the award-winning The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History. His most recent work is a new edition of the authoritative Impeachment: A Handbook, written in 1974 by former Columbia Law Professor Charles Black. Impeachment, he notes, will not tell law students what to think about constitutional problems, but “how to think’’ about them.
Bobbitt, who began teaching at the Law School in 2007, has served in the federal government through seven presidential administrations. He was formerly Associate Counsel to the President for intelligence and international security; the Legal Counsel to the Senate's Iran-Contra committee; the Counselor on International at the State Department; and the senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council. He has been a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law and most recently, a member of the External Advisory Board of the CIA.
Caroline Fredrickson served as the President of the American Constitution Society from 2009-2019, where she helped grow ACS, which now has lawyer chapters across the country, student chapters in nearly every law school in the United States, and thousands of members throughout the nation. She was an eloquent spokesperson for ACS and the progressive movement on issues such as civil and human rights, judicial nominations and the importance of the courts in America, marriage equality, voting rights, the role of money in politics, labor law, and anti- discrimination efforts, rule of law, congressional oversight, and separation of powers, among others. This fall, she joined Georgetown Law as a Visiting Professor.
Fredrickson has published works on many legal and constitutional issues and is a frequent guest on television and radio. She regularly contributes opinion pieces for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other news outlets. She is also the author of Under The Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over, The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections, and most recently, The AOC Way.
Before joining ACS, Fredrickson served as the Director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office and as General Counsel and Legal Director of NARAL Pro-Choice America. In addition, she served as the Chief of Staff to Senator Maria Cantwell, and Deputy Chief of Staff to then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle. She served as Special Assistant to President Clinton for Legislative Affairs.
One of the nation’s leading appellate attorneys, Caitlin J. Halligan has argued six cases and served as counsel of record in more than 45 matters in the U.S. Supreme Court, and has handled scores of cases in the federal appellate courts, the New York Court of Appeals, and other state appellate courts. She has been praised for her “impressive track record” by Chambers USA, and named a “Litigation Star” and one of the “Top 250 Women in Litigation” by Benchmark Litigation.
Caitlin served as solicitor general for the State of New York from 2001 to 2007, after serving as deputy solicitor general. Before that she served as the first chief of the New York attorney general’s Internet Bureau, where she developed cutting-edge law enforcement and policy initiatives regarding online consumer fraud, securities trading, and privacy practices. Caitlin also served as general counsel to the New York County District Attorney’s Office. She currently teaches a seminar on states and public law as a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, and previously taught a course on statutory interpretation and administrative law at Columbia Law School. She speaks frequently on topics that include appellate advocacy, the Supreme Court’s docket, and the impact of litigation brought by state attorney general offices.
Caitlin earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, and her B.A., cum laude, from Princeton University. She clerked for the Honorable Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Honorable Patricia Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Sanford Levinson joined the University of Texas Law School in 1980. Previously a member of the Department of Politics at Princeton University, he is also a Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. Levinson is the author of approximately 400 articles, book reviews, or commentaries in professional and popular journals. He has also written six books: Constitutional Faith (1988, winner of the Scribes Award, 2d edition 2011); Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (1998); Wrestling With Diversity (2003); Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It)(2006); Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance (2012); An Argument Open to All: Reading the Federalist in the 21st Century (2015); and, with Cynthia Levinson, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and teh Flaws that Affect Us Today (forthcoming, September 2017). He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association in 2010.
He has been a visiting faculty member of the Boston University, Georgetown, Harvard, New York University, and Yale law schools in the United States and has taught abroad in programs of law in London; Paris; Jerusalem; Auckland, New Zealand; and Melbourne, Australia. He was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1985-86 and a Member of the Ethics in the Professions Program at Harvard in 1991-92. A member of the American Law Institute, Levinson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
Jennifer Selendy is a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer, and the Secretary of The Trebuchet. She has been named a "Distinguished Leader" by the New York Law Journal, a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation, one of the “Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America” by Lawdragon, and noted for her skill in complex commercial litigation by The Legal 500.
In addition to representing plaintiffs in high-stakes disputes, Jennifer also specializes in complex defense work and is frequently tapped for sensitive internal and governmental investigations into antitrust, financial misconduct, and employment-related matters. She has represented private equity and investment companies in precedent-setting litigation, represents renewable energy companies and related interests in cutting edge litigation aimed at protecting competition in power generation for the benefit of consumers, and has extensive expertise in RICO, bankruptcy, domestic and international arbitration, and cross-border disputes.
Jennifer received her law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School after completing an M.Phil. in International Relations at Oxford (St. Antony’s) as a Marshall Scholar. Jennifer maintains an active public interest practice, focusing on poverty and women’s rights, climate change, and education. Since 2012, she has served as the board chairman for the National Center for Law & Economic Justice. Jennifer is also the co-founder and board chairman of The Speyer Legacy School, an independent K-8 school for gifted children that focuses on educating low-income, high-achieving children in New York City.