An expert in American legal history, John Fabian Witt joined Yale Law School in 2009 and was named the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law in March 2010. He is also a Professor of History at Yale. He previously taught at Columbia Law School for eight years and was a Harrington Faculty...

In this book discussion, Yale Law School’s Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law Reva Siegel ’86 and Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL discuss their book, “Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling.” Yale...

Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin '97 asks "What would the story of the mid-twentieth struggle for civil rights look like if legal historians de-centered the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, and the NAACP and instead considered the movement from the bottom-up?