Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Academic Freedom Podcast Returns
Conversation with Brian Soucek about his book, institutional neutrality, and DEI
Keith E. Whittington
Latest from Keith E. Whittington
Birthright Citizenship, the Common Law, and the 39th Congress
A new paper with Ben Keener on the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
More on Birthright Citizenship and Intellectual Diversity Mandates
Final articles now in "print"
On the Original Legal Meaning of "Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof"
The allegiance reading has no basis in the historical usage of this language in American law
On Scholarly Engagement
Some thoughts on a Balkinization post on the birthright citizenship debate
Birthright Citizenship is Our Law
New piece on birthright citizenship in English and American law
The Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship
Problems ahead for the Trump administration
Texas A&M Removes Plato from Introductory Philosophy Class
New "gender ideology" rule has predictable results
Against Trump's New Higher Education "Compact"
A joint statement and a solo analysis of the Compact's problems
The New Wave of Faculty Terminations
My two recent pieces in Chronicle of Higher Education
Donald Trump, Constitutionalism, and the Third Face of Power
How to speak a new constitution into being
On the Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship
My new paper on the original meaning of the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
On the Status of Judicial Independence in the American Constitutional Order
My new paper on judicial independence as a constitutional construction.
Justice Sotomayor on Supreme Court Term Limits
A bit of cold water on a popular Court "reform" from a justice on the left-wing of the Court
On the Politics of University Autonomy
My new paper thinking through the political calculus of independent universities
The Value of Institutional Neutrality for Free Inquiry
My new article in the First Amendment Law Review's symposium on campus free speech
Diversity Statements and the First Amendment
My new article on diversity statements in faculty hiring and the First Amendment
Academic Freedom Podcast on the University Endowment Tax
An explainer from Brian Galle
Academic Freedom Podcast on Restricting International Students at Harvard University
A conversation with Eugene Volokh on the First Amendment issues of the Trump administration's actions
Academic Freedom Podcast on the Federal Funding Freeze Aimed at Harvard University
An explainer from Cass Sunstein
Academic Freedom Podcast on Rescinding Harvard's Tax Exempt Status
Can Trump do that, and what would it mean?
New Academic Freedom Podcast on the Columbia Situation
A conversation with David Cole
Diversity Statements Coming to an End at the University of California
Is the experiment over?
New Episodes of the Academic Freedom Podcast
Conversations on campus free speech with Timothy Zick, Jennifer Ruth, and Michael Berube
The Academic Freedom Podcast is Back!
The podcast relaunches with a conversation with Cary Nelson
Webinar Today on My New Book on the Impeachment Power
Hosted by the Society for the Rule of Law
Will Be Talking about Impeachment and Campus Free Speech in DC
Check it out live or online
What are the Limits on Faculty Speech?
My response to Harvard's Dean Lawrence Bobo
My New Book on Academic Freedom Now Available
You Can't Teach That! is in fine bookstores now
The Best of Reason: Commander in Chains: 7 Scenarios If Trump Is Jailed and Wins the Election
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
Commander in Chains: 7 Scenarios If Trump Is Jailed and Wins the Election
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
What If Trump is Convicted?
My new article in the print issue of Reason on how things could get weird
Indiana Bill Would Mandate "Intellectual Diversity" in the Classroom
This approach to doing so poses serious academic freedom problems
A Call for Institutional Neutrality
An open letter released today from the AFA, HxA, and FIRE
What Can Professors Say in Public?
My new article on the First Amendment and controversial faculty speech
Against Political Statements by Academic Departments
Universities should not be in the political activism business
