Jack Balkin
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| Born |
August 13, 1956 Kansas City, Missouri |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Constitutional law |
| Institutions | Yale Law School |
| Alma mater | A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University; Ph.D. in philosophy from Cambridge University |
| Known for | author of several books; blogs at Balkinization; frequent guest on BloggingHeads.tv |
Jack M. Balkin (born August 13, 1956) is an American legal scholar. He is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Balkin is the founder and director of the Yale Information Society Project (ISP), a research center whose mission is "to study the implications of the Internet, telecommunications, and the new information technologies for law and society." He also directs the Knight Law and Media Program and the Abrams Institute for Free Expression at Yale Law School.
Balkin publishes the legal blog, Balkinization, and is also a correspondent for The Atlantic.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Balkin received his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Cambridge. He clerked for Judge Carolyn Dineen King of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1982 to 1984 he was a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He taught at the University of Missouri at Kansas City from 1984 to 1988 and at the University of Texas from 1988 to 1994. He joined the Yale faculty in 1994. He has also taught at Harvard University, New York University, Tel Aviv University, and Queen Mary College at the University of London. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
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