Reva Siegel

Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is a specialist in constitutional law and antidiscrimination law, and frequently draws on legal history to explore contemporary issues of inequality and the role of social movements in shaping constitutional law.

Scholarship

One of her most notable works is "She the People: The Nineteenth Amendment, Sex Equality, Federalism, and the Family," 115 Harv. L. Rev. 947 (2002), which argues that the history leading up to the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing woman suffrage, should serve as the foundation for a more robust jurisprudence of sex equality.

Siegel's most recent work focuses on popular constitutionalism and Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, how social movements shape constitutional law, the rise of the New Right, and the popularization of antiabortion arguments that focus on protecting women.

Career

Siegel graduated from Yale Law School in 1986, where she was an editor of "The Yale Law Journal". She joined the Yale faculty in 1994 after teaching at the Boalt Hall School of Law. She serves on the boards of the American Society for Legal History, the Center for WorkLife Law, and the Harvard Law & Policy Review. She is an active member of the American Constitution Society and faculty advisor to the ACS chapter at Yale Law School.

Selected works

Articles

" [http://yalelawjournal.org/112/8/1943_robert_c_post_reva_b_siegel.html Legislative Constitutionalism and Section Five Power: Policentric Interpretation of the Family and Medical Leave Act] ," 112 Yale L.J. 1943 (2003) (with Robert Post)

"Popular Constitutionalism, Departmentalism, and Judicial Supremacy", 92 Cal. L. Rev. 1027 (2004) (with Robert Post)

"Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change: The Case of the de facto ERA", 94 Cal. L. Rev. 1323 (2006) (Brennan Center Jorde Symposium on Constitutional Law)

"Principles, Practices, and Social Movements," 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 927 (2006) (with Jack Balkin)

" [http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=12011 Mommy Dearest?] ", The American Prospect, Oct. 3, 2006 (with Sarah Blustain)

Books

Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (5th ed., 2006) (with Paul Brest, Sanford Levinson, Jack Balkin, and Akhil Amar)

The Constitution in 2020 (forthcoming) (edited with Jack Balkin)

External links

* [http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/RSiegel.htm Reva Siegel faculty profile]