Jack Balkin

Jack Balkin

Jack M. Balkin (born August 13, 1956) is an American legal scholar. He is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Balkin is the founder and director of the Yale Information Society Project (ISP), a research center whose mission is "to study the implications of the Internet, telecommunications, and the new information technologies for law and society." He also directs the Knight Law and Media Program and the Abrams Institute for Free Expression at Yale Law School.

Balkin publishes the legal blog, Balkinization, and is also a correspondent for The Atlantic.

Read more about Jack Balkin:  Education and Early Career, Memetics, Ideology, and Transcendence, Ideological Drift and Legal Semiotics, Partisan Entrenchment, Constitutional Interpretation, Democratic Culture

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