Robert C. Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will be the Luncheon Speaker at the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting. He will speak on academic leadership and scholarship. A Presidential Program will follow the Association Luncheon on the 100th Anniversary of the Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure of the American Association of University Professors.
Dean Post is an accomplished legal scholar whose areas of focus include the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, equal protection and legal history. He has published extensively on these topics, writing and editing numerous books, most recently Citizens Divided: A Constitutional Theory of Campaign Finance Reform (2014).
His work appears frequently in legal journals and other publications. Recent articles include Theorizing Disagreement: Reconceiving the Relationship Between Law and Politics (Calif. L. Rev., 2010) and Constructing the European Polity: ERTA and the Open Skies Judgments in The Past and Future of EU Law: The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Miguel Poiares Maduro & Loïc Azuolai eds., 2010).
Prior to joining Yale Law School in 2003, Dean Post taught for 20 years at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He served as an associate from 1980 to 1982 at the law firm Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. and as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court from 1978 to 1979. In addition, he was a law clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1977 to 1978.
In addition to his extensive service to Yale Law School, Dean Post is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served on the AALS Executive Committee from 2006 through 2008. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society.