Biography
Professor Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Siegel writes widely on constitutional law, analyzing how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. This short bio highlights recent publications of relevance to the conference. Others are available at https://law.yale.edu/reva-siegel
- Siegel has written on questions of reproductive justice from an equality perspective throughout her career, and with Professors Melissa Murray and Serena Mayeri, coauthored an equal protection amicus in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Brief of Equal Protection Constitutional Law Scholars Serena Mayeri, Melissa Murray, and Reva Siegel as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., No. 19-1392, 2021 WL 4340072 (2021). (For discussion of the equal protection argument of the brief, see Equal Protection in Dobbs and Beyond: How States Protect Life Inside and Outside of the Abortion Context, 43 J. of Gender & the Law 67 (2023) (with Serena Mayeri & Melissa Murray); Equality Emerges as a Ground for Abortion Rights In and After Dobbs (with Cary Franklin) in Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion (Lee Bollinger & Geoffrey R. Stone eds. forthcoming 2023); see also Answering the Lochner Objection: Substantive Due Process and the Role of Courts in a Democracy, 96 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 1902 (2021) (with Douglas NeJaime)).
- Siegel is a critic of the Dobbs’s history and tradition claims. See Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance, 101 Texas L. Rev. 1127 (2023); How “History and Tradition” Perpetuates Inequality: Dobbs on Abortion’s Nineteenth-Century Criminalization, 60 Hous. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023); see generally The Politics of Constitutional Memory, 20 J. L. & Pub. Policy 19 (2022).
- Siegel also writes on the Second Amendment, including Guided by History: Protecting the Public Sphere from Weapons Threats under Bruen, 98 N.Y.U. Rev. (forthcoming 2023) (with Joseph Blocher); Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy, 135 Harv. L. Rev. F. 449 (2022) (with Joseph Blocher); When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere: A New Account of Public Safety Regulation Under Heller, 115 Nw. L. Rev. 139 (2021) (with Joseph Blocher) and Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 191 (2008).
- Professor Siegel is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History. She serves on the board of Advisors and the Board of Academic Advisors of the American Constitution Society and on the General Council of the International Society of Public Law.
