The ''Yale Law & Policy Review'' (''YLPR'') is a biannual student-run

law review A law review or law journal is a scholarly journal or publication that focuses on legal issues. A law review is a type of legal periodical. Law reviews are a source of research, imbedded with analyzed and referenced legal topics; they also provide ...

founded in 1982 at the

Yale Law School Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...

. ''YLPR'' publishes scholarship at the intersection of law and policy authored by lawmakers, judges, practitioners, academics, and students. ''YLPR'' also publishes shorter, timely pieces on its online forum, ''Inter Alia.'' Past contributors include Supreme Court Justices

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until Death and state funeral of Ruth Bader ...

John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens (April 20, 1920 – July 16, 2019) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the second-oldes ...

, and

Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President George H. W. Bush nominated him to succeed Thurgood Marshall. Afte ...

; President

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...

; Vice President

Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American former politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as ...

; Secretaries of State

Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator represent ...

and

Cyrus Vance Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 57th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Prior to serving in that position, he was the United ...

; Senators

Bill Bradley William Warren Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American politician and former professional basketball player. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was a United States Senate, United States senator from New ...

Chris Coons Christopher Andrew Coons (born September 9, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States Senate, United States senator from Delaware, a seat he has held since 2010. A member ...

Tom Daschle Thomas Andrew Daschle ( ; born December 9, 1947) is an American politician and lobbyist who represented South Dakota in the United States Senate from 1987 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he led the Senate Democratic Caucus during the ...

John Edwards Johnny Reid Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who represented North Carolina in the United States Senate from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the vice presidential nominee under ...

Bill Frist William Harrison Frist (born February 22, 1952) is an American physician, businessman, conservationist and policymaker who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as ...

Ted Kennedy Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts who served as a member of the United States Senate from 1962 to his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and ...

Frank Lautenberg Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (; January 23, 1924 June 3, 2013) was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as United States Senator from New Jersey from 1982 to 2001, and again from 2003 until his death in 2013. He was ori ...

Joe Lieberman Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; February 24, 1942 – March 27, 2024) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Originally a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Dem ...

Arlen Specter Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican fr ...

, and

Tom Udall Thomas Stewart Udall ( ; born May 18, 1948) is an American diplomat, attorney, and politician who had served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator for N ...

; Governor

Michael Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis ( ; born November 3, 1933) is an American politician and lawyer who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the s ...

, Ambassador

John Negroponte John Dimitri Negroponte (; born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat. In 2018, he was a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Shapi ...

; and Professors

Richard Epstein Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at Ne ...

Harold Koh Harold Hongju Koh (born December 8, 1954) is an American diplomat, lawyer, legal scholar, politician, and writer. Except for his periods of government service, he has taught at Yale Law School from 1985 to the present, including as the law school ...

, Robert Post, and

Cass Sunstein Cass Robert Sunstein (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar known for his work in U.S. constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and behavioral economics. He is also ''The New York Times'' best-selling author of ...

. The 2007 ''ExpressO'' Guide to Top Law Reviews ranked the journal first among law and society law reviews based on the number of manuscripts received.

Notable authors and articles

* Deepak Gupta and

Lina Khan Lina Maliha Khan (born March 3, 1989) is an American legal scholar who served from 2021 to 2025 as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). She is also a professor at Columbia Law School. While a student at Yale Law School, she became known ...

(2017). "Arbitration as Wealth Transfer" Yale law & Policy Review. 35: 495. *

William Jefferson Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attor ...

(2014). "The Voting Rights Umbrella". Yale Law & Policy Review. 33: 383. *

Janet Napolitano Janet Ann Napolitano (; born November 29, 1957) is an American politician, lawyer, and academic administrator. She served as president of the University of California from 2013 to 2020, on the faculty at the Goldman School of Public Policy at t ...

(2014). "Only Yes Means Yes: An Essay on University Policies regarding Sexual Violence and Sexual Assault". Yale Law & Policy Review. 33: 387. *

Dana Remus Dana Ann Remus (born 1974/1975) is an American lawyer who served as White House counsel for U.S. president Joe Biden from January 2021 to July 2022. Prior to her appointment as White House counsel, Remus was general counsel for Joe Biden's 2020 ...

(2012). "The Institutional Politics of Federal Judicial Conduct Regulation." Yale Law & Policy Review. 31: 33. *

Owen Fiss Owen M. Fiss (born 1938) is an American legal scholar who is a Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale Law School. Biography Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Fiss received his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1959, B.Phil. from Oxford University in 196 ...

(2012). "Even in a Time of Terror". Yale Law & Policy Review. 31: 1. *

and

Linda Greenhouse Linda Joyce Greenhouse (born January 9, 1947) is an American legal journalist who is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has cove ...

(2011). "A Conversation with Justice Stevens". Yale Law & Policy Review. 30: 304. * Marin K. Levy;

Kate Stith Kate Stith, also known as Kate Stith-Cabranes, is the Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law and the former acting dean of Yale Law School. Her appointment was announced on March 23, 2009, by Yale University President Richard Levin, when former dea ...

; and Jose A. Cabranes (2009). "The Costs of Judging Judges by the Numbers". Yale Law & Policy Review. 28: 313. * William H. Pryor, Jr. (2006). "The Religious Faith and Judicial Duty of an American Catholic Judge". Yale Law & Policy Review. 24: 347. * Dan M. Kahan and Donald Braman (2006). "Cultural Cognition and Public Policy". Yale Law & Policy Review. 24: 149. *

Hillary Rodham Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator represent ...

(2005). "Brown at Fifty: Fulfilling the Promise". Yale Law & Policy Review. 23: 213. * Robert Post (2005). "Affirmative Action and Higher Education: The View from Somewhere". Yale Law & Policy Review. 23: 25. *

John Podesta John David Podesta Jr. (born January 8, 1949) is an American political consultant who served as Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy from 2024 to 2025, having previously served as the Senior Advisor to the President ...

and

Raj Goyle Rajeev Kumar Goyle (born June 9, 1975) is a Democratic politician from Kansas, who represented the 87th District in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for . Early life, education and caree ...

(2005). "Lost in Cyberspace? Finding American Liberties in a Dangerous Digital World." *

(2004). "Looking Beyond Our Borders: The Value of a Comparative Perspective in Constitutional Adjudication". Yale Law & Policy Review. 22: 329. * Judith S. Kaye (2004). "Delivering Justice Today: A Problem-Solving Approach". Yale Law & Policy Review. 22: 125. * Charles J. Ogletree Jr. (2002). "From Pretoria to Philadelphia: Judge Higginbotham's Racial Justice Jurisprudence on South Africa and the United States". Yale Law & Policy Review. 20: 383. * Shira A. Scheindlin and John Elofson (1998). "Judges, Juries, and Sexual Harassment". Yale Law & Policy Review. 17: 813. * Stacey Y. Abrams (1998). "Devolution's Discord: Resolving Operational Dissonance with the UBIT Exemption". Yale Law & Policy Review.17: 877. *

Judith Resnik Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster. She was the fourth woman, ...

and

Emily Bazelon Emily Bazelon (born March 4, 1971) is an American journalist. She is a staff writer for ''The New York Times Magazine,'' a senior research fellow at Yale Law School, and co-host of the ''Slate'' podcast ''Political Gabfest''. She is a former se ...

(1998). "Legal Services: Then and Now". Yale Law & Policy Review. 17: 291. *

Robert W. Sweet Robert Workman Sweet (October 15, 1922 – March 24, 2019) was an American jurist and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Education and career Sweet was born on October 15, 1922 ...

(1998). "Civil Gideon and Confidence in a Just Society". Yale Law & Policy Review. 17: 503. *

Joseph Lieberman Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; February 24, 1942 – March 27, 2024) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he was its nomine ...

(1997). "The Politics of Money and the Road to Self-Destruction". Yale Law & Policy Review. 16: 425. *

Michael S. Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis ( ; born November 3, 1933) is an American politician and lawyer who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the s ...

(1992). "Hawaii and Massachusetts: Lessons from the States". Yale Law & Policy Review. 10: 397. *

Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) is an American politician, lawyer, and human rights activist. Norton is a congressional delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she has represented the District of Columbia since 1991 as ...

(1990). "The End of the Griggs Economy: Doctrinal Adjustment for the New American Workplace". Yale Law & Policy Review. 8: 197. *

Harold Hongju Koh Harold Hongju Koh (born December 8, 1954) is an American diplomat, lawyer, legal scholar, politician, and writer. Except for his periods of government service, he has taught at Yale Law School from 1985 to the present, including as the law school ...

(1988). "Overview: Four Dichotomies in American Trade Policy". Yale Law & Policy Review. 6: 4. * Susan Rose-Ackerman (1988). "Public Policy in the Public Interest". Yale Law & Policy Review. 6: 505. *

(1986). "Affirmative Action Goals and Timetables: Too Tough? Not Tough Enough!," Yale Law & Policy Review. 5: 402. *

Marian Wright Edelman Marian Wright Edelman ( Wright; born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for civil rights and children's rights. She is the founder and president emerita of the Children's Defense Fund. She influenced leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, an ...

and James D. Weill (1985). "Investing in our Children". Yale Law & Policy Review. 4: 331. * Edward M. Kennedy (1985). "Reconsidering Social Welfare Policy: Introduction". Yale Law & Policy Review. 4: 1. * Maxine F. Singer (1984). "Genetics and the Law: A Scientist's View". Yale Law & Policy Review. 3: 315. * Albert Gore, Jr. and Steve Owens (1984) "The Challenge of Biotechnology". Yale Law & Policy Review. 3: 336. *

Stephen L. Carter Stephen Lisle Carter (born October 26, 1954)"Carter, Stephen L. 1954 ...

(1984). "The Bellman, the Snark, and the Biohazard Debate". Yale Law & Policy Review. 3: 358. * Richard Neely (1984). "The Primary Caretaker Parent Rule: Child Custody and the Dynamics of Greed". Yale Law & Policy Review. 3: 168. * Catherine A. MacKinnon (1983). "Not A Moral Issue". Yale Law & Policy Review. 3: 321. *

Cyrus R. Vance Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 57th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Prior to serving in that position, he was the United ...

(1982). "Reforming the Electoral Reforms". Yale Law & Policy Review. 1: 151.

Notable alumni and former editors

Academia

Bruce Ackerman Bruce Arnold Ackerman (born August 19, 1943) is an American legal scholar who serves as a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. In 2010, he was named by ''Foreign Policy'' magazine to its list of top global thinkers. Ackerman was also identified ...

, Sterling Professor at Yale Law School and American constitutional law scholar (appears in Vol. 1:1) * Monica Bell, Yale Law School professor (appears in Vol. 24:1) * Aslı Ü. Bâli, Yale Law School professor (appears in Vol. 13.2) * William Baude, Harry Kalven Jr. Professor of Law at the

University of Chicago Law School The University of Chicago Law School is the Law school in the United States, law school of the University of Chicago, a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It employs more than 180 full-time and part-time facul ...

(appears in Vol. 23.2) *

, Yale Law professor (appears in Vol. 1:1) *

Jill Fisch Jill E. Fisch is the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton Schoo ...

, Professor of Business Law at the

University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Carey Law, or Penn Law; previously University of Pennsylvania Law School) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Phi ...

(appears in Vol. 2.2) *

Paul Gewirtz Paul D. Gewirtz (born May 12, 1947) is an American lawyer currently serving as the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School and director of the Yale Paul Tsai China Center. Education Gewirtz received his Bachelor of Arts ...

, Yale Law professor (appears in Vol. 1:1) *

Abbe Gluck Abbe R. Gluck is an American lawyer who serves as the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and faculty director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. She is also professor of internal medicine at Yale Medical School and ...

, Yale Law professor and Special Counsel on President Biden's COVID-19 team (appears in Vol. 16:1) * Zachary D. Kaufman, legal academic and social entrepreneur (Editor-in-Chief Vol. 27:1, 27:2) * Cristina Rodriguez, co-Chair of the

Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (PCSCOTUS), also known informally as the Supreme Court commission, was a Presidential Commission established by U.S. President Joe Biden to investigate the idea of reformin ...

and Yale Law professor (appears in Vol. 16:1) * Benjamin Sachs, Professor of Labor and Industry at

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United ...

Stephen E. Sachs Stephen Edward Sachs (born 1979 or 1980) is an American legal scholar who is the Antonin Scalia Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is a scholar of constitutional law, civil procedure, conflict of laws, and originalism. Early life and ed ...

, Antonin Scalia Professor of Law at

(appears in Vol. 24.1, 25.1, 26.1) *

Reva Siegel Reva B. Siegel (born 1956) is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Siegel's writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality, and to analyze how courts interact with representative government ...

professor

Business

Joseph Tsai Joseph Chung-Hsin Tsai ( zh, t=蔡崇信, poj=Chhòa Chông-sìn; born January 1964) is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire business magnate, lawyer, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder and chairman of the Chinese multinational technology company ...

, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Chinese multinational technology company

Alibaba Group Alibaba Group Holding Limited, branded as Alibaba (), is a Chinese Multinational corporation, multinational technology company specializing in E-commerce in China, e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology. Founded on 28 June 1999 in Hangzho ...

(appears in Vol 5:1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2).

Judiciary

Ronnie Abrams Ronnie Abrams (born June 3, 1968) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Early life and education Abrams is one of two children born to Efrat Abrams and Floyd Abrams, a Fi ...

, federal district judge of the

Southern District of New York The Southern District of New York is a federal judicial district that encompasses the counties of New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan. Federal offices or agencies operating in the distri ...

(appears in Vol. 10.1, 10.2) *

Roy Altman Roy Kalman Altman (born 1982) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Biography Altman received a Bachelor of Arts in 2004 from Columbia University, where he was quarterback ...

, federal district judge of the Southern District of Florida (appears in Vol. 23.2) * David Barlow, federal district judge of the

District of Utah During the American Civil War in the early 1860s, the District of Utah was a subordinate district of the U.S. Army's Department of the Pacific. The district was composed of territorial areas that later became parts of the modern U.S. states of Ida ...

(appears in Vol. 14.2, 15.1, 15.2) *

Jacqueline Becerra Jacqueline Becerra (born 1970) is an American lawyer from Florida who has served as a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida since 2024. She previously se ...

, federal district judge of the Southern District of Florida (appears in Vol. 11.2, 12.1) *

Steven Colloton Steven Michael Colloton (born January 9, 1963) is the chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He has served as judge of the court since 2003 and became chief judge in March 2024. Early li ...

, federal appeals judge of the 8th Circuit (appears in Vol. 4:2) * John Cronan, federal district judge of the Southern District of New York (Editor-in-Chief Vol. 19.1, 19.2) *

Jesse Furman Jesse Matthew Furman (born 1972) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Early life and education Furman is the son of psychologist Gail (née Gorman) and real estate devel ...

, federal district judge of the Southern District of New York *

Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong ( Maame Abena Famanyame Ewusi-Mensah; born 1976) is an American attorney serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. She previously served as a ...

, federal district judge of the

Central District of California The United States District Court for the Central District of California (in case citations, C.D. Cal.; commonly referred to as the CDCA or CACD) is a federal trial court that serves over 19 million people in Southern and Central California, m ...

(appears in Vol. 17.1, 17.2, 18.2) * Pamela Harris, federal appeals judge of the 4th Circuit (appears in Vol. 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2) * Embry Kidd, federal appeals judge of the 11th Circuit (appears in Vol. 24.1) *

Leondra Kruger Leondra Reid Kruger (born July 28, 1976) is an American judge who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. A native of South Pasadena, California, she graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School. Kruger then ...

, Justice of the

Supreme Court of California The Supreme Court of California is the Supreme court, highest and final court of appeals in the judiciary of California, courts of the U.S. state of California. It is headquartered in San Francisco at the Earl Warren Building, but it regularly ...

, former Principal Deputy Solicitor General. (appears in Vol. 17.1, 17.2) *

Goodwin Liu Goodwin Hon Liu (; born October 19, 1970) is an American jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California since 2011. Before his appointment by Governor Jerry Brown, he was a professor of law and associate dean at t ...

, Justice of the Supreme Court of California, former

Berkeley Law The University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years, although it was never the official name. This cam ...

professor and

9th Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts for the following federal judicial districts: * District ...

nominee (appears in Vol. 13:2) * Eunice C. Lee, federal appeals judge of the

2nd Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in case citations, 2d Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory covers the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont, and it has appellate jurisdict ...

(appears in Vol. 13.1, 13.2) * Anna M. Manasco, federal district judge of the

Northern District of Alabama The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (in case citations, N.D. Ala.) is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are ap ...

(appears in Vol. 24.1, 25.1, 26.1) * Jeffrey A. Meyer, federal district judge of the

District of Connecticut The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (in case citations, D. Conn.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Connecticut. The court has offices in Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven. Appeals ...

(appears in Vol 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2) *

Jill A. Pryor Jill Anne Pryor (born in 1963) is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Pryor was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Education Pryor received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985 from the Col ...

, federal appeals judge of the 11th Circuit (appears in Vol 5.2)

Media

, journalist and staff writer for the

New York Times Magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. The magazin ...

(appears in Vol. 16:1) *

David Lat David Benjamin Lat (born June 19, 1975) is an American lawyer, author, and legal commentator. Lat is the founder of Above the Law, a website about law firms and the legal profession. Lat attended Harvard University and Yale Law School. After la ...

, founder and managing editor of the blog Above the Law *

Adam Liptak Adam Liptak (born September 2, 1960) is an American journalist, lawyer and instructor in law and journalism. He is the Supreme Court correspondent for ''The New York Times''. Liptak has written for ''The New Yorker'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''Rolling ...

, current

Supreme Court In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

correspondent for the ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'' (appears in Vol. 4:2) * Matt Levine, financial journalist & opinion columnist for

Bloomberg News Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg T ...

; author of ''Money Stuff'' newsletter. (appears in Vol 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1) *

Renato Mariotti Renato Mariotti is an American attorney, legal commentator, acting fill-in anchor for WGN-TV and former federal prosecutor. On October 26, 2017, he announced his candidacy for Illinois Attorney General, but he lost in the Democratic primary elect ...

MSNBC MSNBC is an American cable news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Launched on July 15, 1996, and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, the channel primarily broadcasts r ...

legal correspondent, former federal prosecutor and candidate for Illinois Attorney General (appears in Vol. 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2) *

Daniel H. Pink Daniel H. Pink (born July 23, 1964) is an American author. He has written seven ''New York Times'' bestsellers. He was host and a co-executive producer of the National Geographic Channel social science TV series ''Crowd Control''. From 1995 to 1 ...

, ''New York Times'' bestselling author of ''Drive'' and ''A Whole New Mind'' (Editor-in-Chief Vol 8:2, 9:1) *

Asha Rangappa Renuka Asha Rangappa (born November 15, 1974) is an American lawyer, former FBI agent, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, and a commentator on MSNBC and CNN. She was previously ...

CNN Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable ne ...

/MSNBC legal correspondent, former FBI Agent and associate dean of Yale Law School (appears in Vol. 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2)

Politics & Government

* Wally Adeyamo, United States

deputy secretary of the treasury The deputy secretary of the treasury of the United States advises and assists the Secretary of the Treasury in the supervision and direction of the United States Department of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury and its activities, and succ ...

(appears in Vol. 24:1) * Michael Barr, Vice Chair of the

Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of ...

(appears in Vol 10.1) *

Hunter Biden Robert Hunter Biden (born February4, 1970) is an American attorney and businessman. He is the second son of former president Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was a founding board member of BHR Partners, a Chine ...

, second son of President Joe Biden (appears in Vol. 14:2) *

Rob Bonta Robert Andres Bonta (born September 22, 1972) is a Filipino and American lawyer and politician who has served as attorney general of California since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the California Stat ...

Attorney General of California The attorney general of California is the state attorney general of the government of California. The officer must ensure that "the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced" ( Constitution of California, Article V, Section 13). ...

(appears in Vol. 13.2) *

Cornell William Brooks Cornell William Brooks (born 1961) is an American lawyer and activist. He was chosen to be the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in May 2014. He previously served as president of thNew Jersey Inst ...

, former President of the

NAACP The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du&nbs ...

* Luke Bronin, 67th mayor of

Hartford, CT Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 census. Hartford is the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region and the core city of ...

and former general counsel to CT Gov.

Dannel Malloy Dannel Patrick Malloy (; born July 21, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 88th governor of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he chaired the Democratic Governors Association from 2016 to 2017. In Ju ...

(Appears in Vol. 23.2) *Jonathan Cedarbaum, deputy counsel to President Biden and legal adviser to the National Security Council (appears in Vol. 12:1, 13.1) *

Brian Deese Brian Christopher Deese (born February 17, 1978) is an American economic and political advisor who was the 13th director of the National Economic Council (United States), National Economic Council, serving under President Joe Biden. He previous ...

, 13th Director of the National Economic Council, serving under President Joe Biden (appears in Vol. 24:1) * Addisu Demissie, political strategist and campaign manager (appears in Vol. 25:1) *

Steven Engel Steven Andrew Engel (born June 29, 1974) is an American lawyer. He served as the United States assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel in the First presidency of Donald Trump, first Trump administration. Engel, who previously ...

, former Assistant Attorney General (appears in Vol. 16.1) *

Cyrus Habib Kamyar Cyrus Habib (born August 22, 1981) is an American Jesuit, lawyer, and politician who served as both a state legislator from 2013 to 2017 and then as the 16th lieutenant governor of Washington from 2017 to 2021. He also served as the sta ...

, former Lieutenant Governor of Washington (appears in Vol 25.1) * Joshua Hawley,

United States Senator The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 U.S. state, states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress. Party affiliation Independent Senators Angus King of Maine and Berni ...

from Missouri (appears in Vol. 22:1) * Dawn Johnsen, former

Office of Legal Counsel The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) is an office in the United States Department of Justice that supports the attorney general in their role as legal adviser to the president and all executive branch agencies. It drafts legal opinions of the atto ...

employee, professor at Indiana University School of Law (appears in Vol. 2:1) * Matt Klapper, former chief of staff to U.S. Senator

Cory Booker Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States Senate, United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democ ...

and current chief of staff to Attorney General

Merrick Garland Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 86th United States attorney general from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Dist ...

. *Joshua Steinglass, Assistant

Manhattan District Attorney The New York County District Attorney, also known as the Manhattan District Attorney, is the elected district attorney for New York County, New York. The office is responsible for the prosecution of violations of New York state laws (federal la ...

, Senior Trial Counsel on the

Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York ''The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump'' was a Criminal procedure, criminal case against Donald Trump, a then-former president of the United States. Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records ...

(appears in Vol. 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1) *

Jake Sullivan Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan (born November 28, 1976) is an American attorney who served as the National Security Advisor (United States), U.S. national security advisor from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden. Sullivan previously served as Dire ...

, National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden (appears in Vol. 19:1) *

Gene Sperling Eugene Benton Sperling (born December 24, 1958) is an American lawyer who was director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He is the only person to ...

, Senior Advisor to President Joe Biden; director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy under Presidents

and

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ...

(appears in Vol. 1:2) *

Neera Tanden Neera Tanden (born September 10, 1970) is an American political consultant and former government official who is the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank. Tanden was director of the United States Domesti ...

White House Staff Secretary The Staff Secretary ("Staff Sec") is a position in the White House Office responsible for managing paper flow to the President and circulating documents among senior staff for comment. It has been referred to as "the nerve center of the White H ...

and Senior Advisor to Joe Biden, former president of the

Center for American Progress The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a public policy think tank, research and advocacy organization which presents a Modern liberalism in the United States, liberal viewpoint on Economic policy, economic and social issues. CAP is headquarter ...

(appears in Vol. 14:1) * David Uhlmann, Assistant Administrator of the EPA and former

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

law professor (appears in Vol 5.1, 5.2) * Damian Williams,

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York is the United States Attorney, chief federal law enforcement officer in eight contiguous New York counties: the counties (coextensive boroughs of New York City) of New York County, ...

(appears in Vol. 23.2) *

Usha Vance Usha Bala Chilukuri Vance (née Chilukuri; born January 6, 1986) is an American lawyer who has been the Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States, second lady of the United States since 2025, being married to Vice President JD Vance. A ...

, Second Lady of the United States (appears in Vol 29.2)

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