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Keith E. Whittington
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David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Founding Chair, Academic Freedom Alliance; Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution. All opinions are mine alone.
Have a chapter on when one should impeach a judge in a volume to appear next year
www.amazon.com/Beyond-Check...
Beyond Checks and Balances: The Political Purpose of the Separation of Powers (Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism)
Beyond Checks and Balances: The Political Purpose of the Separation of Powers (Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism)
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November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
New analysis from me on the many flaws and dangers of the proposed Compact.
thedispatch.com/article/trum...
An Unconstitutional ‘Deal’ for Higher Education
The Trump administration's Plan A didn't work. Plan B is even more coercive.
thedispatch.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A joint statement from Robert George (Princeton), Jeannie Suk Gersen (Harvard), Tom Ginsburg (Chicago), Robert Post (Yale), David Rabban (Texas) & Keith Whittington (Yale) on the Compact. A politically diverse group known for writing & work on campus issues.
tomginsburg.substack.com/p/on-the-com...
On the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education
By Professors Robert P. George (Princeton), Tom Ginsburg (Chicago), Robert Post (Yale), David Rabban (Texas), Jeannie Suk Gersen (Harvard), and Keith Whittington (Yale)
tomginsburg.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I argue that private universities should generally adopt free expression policies that mirror the 1st Amend, indicate scope & limits of that approach, identify core principles that such a commitment would require & consider the rationale for a 1st Amend regime & its primary alternatives.
October 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In the latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, with a symposium in honor of Larry Alexander

digital.sandiego.edu/jcli/vol27/i...
The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues | Vol 27 | Iss 1
digital.sandiego.edu
October 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Plenty of those need to be cleaned up in revisions
October 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM