 | Robert C. Post |
Robert C. Post, who has joined the Yale ,faculty as the first David Boies Professor of Law, focuses his teaching and writing on constitutional law, and is a specialist in the area of First Amendment theory and constitutional jurisprudence.
A 1977 graduate of the Yale Law School, he has been teaching since 1983 at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall).
Post is the author of "Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management" and co-author of "Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law." He edited or co-edited "Civil Society and Government," "Human Rights in Political Transitions: Gettysburg to Bosnia," "Race and Representation: Affirmative Action," "Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation" and "Law and Order of Culture." He also has written numerous articles for academic journals.
Post earned his B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University. While at the Yale Law School, he served as note editor of the Yale Law Journal. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard.
The Yale alumnus was a law clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Boalt Hall faculty, Post was an associate in the firm Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., serving in its litigation section. He served as general counsel to the American Association of University Professors 1992-1994 and to Governor Wilson's Independent Panel on Redistricting in 1991.
Post has been honored with the Koret Israel Prize and with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He received the 1998 Hughes-Gossett Award for best article in the Journal of Supreme Court History. He is the councilor of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he is a fellow, and is a member of the American Law Institute.
The David Boies Professorship was established by friends and partners of Boies, who graduated from the Yale Law School in 1966. Called "perhaps the highest profile lawyer in America" by Time magazine, David Boies has been involved in a number of prominent cases in recent years. He was special trial counsel for the Justice Department in its antitrust suit against Microsoft and the lead counsel for former Vice President Al Gore in connection with the litigation relating to the Florida vote count in the 2000 presidential election. He also defended Napster and its online music file sharing business. More recently, he was the plaintiff's lead counsel in a class-action lawsuit involving price collusion at the Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses.
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