International Journal of Communications Law & Policy

Prof. Jack M. Balkin
E-mail: jack (DOT) balkin (AT) yale (DOT) edu

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School . Professor Balkin received his Ph.D in Philosophy from Cambridge University , and his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University . He served as a clerk for Judge Carolyn D. King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine, and Moore in New York City before entering the legal academy. He has been a member of the law faculties at the University of Texas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a visiting professor at Harvard University , New York University, the Buchman Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and the University of London . Professor Balkin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He writes political and legal commentary at the weblog Balkinization (http://balkin.blogspot.com/). He has also written widely on legal issues for such publications as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Hartford Courant, Washington Monthly, The New Republic Online, and Slate. Professor Balkin is the founder and director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School , an interdisciplinary center that studies law and the new information technologies. His work ranges over many different fields, including cultural evolution, telecommunications and Internet law, reproductive rights, freedom of speech, rhetoric, jurisprudence and legal reasoning, the theory of ideology, and musical and legal interpretation. His books include Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life, Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (5th ed., with Brest , Levinson, Amar and Siegel), Legal Canons (with Sanford Levinson), What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said.