Robert Post

Robert Post is a professor of constitutional law and former Dean of Yale Law School. He is a leading scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech. Post is a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a co-Reporter for the forthcoming Restatement (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy. He has served on the boards of the American Constitution Society and of the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut. He has also served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center, as a member of the Executive Council of the American Association of Law Schools, and as General Counsel of the American Association of University Professors. Post’s books include Citizens Divided: A Constitutional Theory of Campaign Finance Reform (2014), which was originally delivered as the Tanner Lectures at Harvard; Democracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State (2012), which was originally delivered as the Rosenthal Lectures at Northwestern University; For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (with Matthew M. Finkin, 2009), which has become the standard reference for the meaning of academic freedom in the United States; and Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law (2001), which was originally delivered as the Brennan Lectures at Berkeley.