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Justin Driver

Justin Driver

Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is a graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), Duke (where he received certification to teach public school), and Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review). After graduating from Harvard, Driver clerked for then-Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. A recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize, Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews. He has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in Slate, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. A member of the American Law Institute and of the American Constitution Society’s Academic Advisory Board, Driver is also an editor of the Supreme Court Review.  His debut book, The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind, has received widespread acclaim. The New York Times called it “indispensable,” and The Washington Post labeled it “masterful.” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky deemed it “magnificent” in the Michigan Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal declared it “destined to influence the field for years to come.” The Schoolhouse Gate was named a Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year by the Washington Post and an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review. In addition, the book received the Education Law Association’s Steven Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the field, and was a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and was shortlisted for Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award.