Dr. Jack Balkin

Biography

Jack M. Balkin is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, where he also serves as the founder and director of Yale's Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies the law of new information technologies. He directs the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Knight Law Media Program at Yale. Balkin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute. He has authored over 150 articles and several books on topics such as constitutional theory, internet law, freedom of speech, and jurisprudence. His works include 'Memory Authority: Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation' (Yale, 2024) and 'Democracy and Dysfunction' (with Sanford Levinson) (Chicago, 2019). He has been a visiting professor at multiple esteemed institutions, including Harvard University and New York University. Balkin's scholarship is widely recognized, and he continuously engages in public discourse about the intersections of law and technology, particularly in relation to artificial intelligence and constitutional interpretation.

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