Dr. Robert Yablon

Biography

Robert Yablon is a Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a Faculty Co-Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative. His research interests encompass political election law, constitutional law, federal-state courts, and statutory interpretation. He teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Jurisdiction, and Law and Democracy. Professor Yablon has contributed to prestigious publications including the NYU Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Iowa Law Review. He has received honors for his teaching, including the Classroom Teacher of the Year Award from UW Law students and the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019. After completing his B.S. in Economics and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he pursued a master's degree in Social Policy at the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Articles Editor for the Yale Law Journal. His legal career includes clerking for Judge William Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, as well as working in private practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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