Biography
Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. He is the founder and director of Yale’s Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and new information technologies. He also directs the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, and the Knight Law and Media Program at Yale.
Professor Balkin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute, and the founder and editor of the group blog, Balkinization. He is the author of over a hundred and forty articles in many different fields. His books include The Cycles of Constitutional Time; Democracy and Dysfunction (with Sanford Levinson); Living Originalism; Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World; Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (8th ed. with Levinson, Amar, Siegel, and Rodriguez); Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology; The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life; and What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said.
