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Prof. Jack M. Balkin
Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. 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.
Professor Balkin 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, New York University, the Buchman Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and the University of London. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and writes political and legal commentary at the weblog Balkinization (http://balkin.blogspot.com/). He has also written widely on legal issues for such publications as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, The New Republic Online, and Slate.
Professor Balkin is the founder and director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and the new information technologies, and the director of Yale's Knight Law and Media Program. He is the author of over ninety articles and the author or editor of nine books. His work ranges over many different fields, including cultural evolution, telecommunications and Internet law, reproductive rights, freedom of speech, rhetoric, jurisprudence and legal reasoning, the theory of ideology, and musical and legal interpretation.
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