Robert Charles Post (born October 17, 1947) is an American legal scholar who is currently a professor of law at

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where he served as the

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from 2009 to 2017.

Biography

Post received his

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four year ...

from

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in 1969 and earned his Juris Doctor from

in 1977. While at Yale, he served as an editor of the ''Yale Law Journal''. He then clerked for

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Judge David L. Bazelon and Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Post subsequently earned a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard University, worked briefly in private practice, and started his career in law teaching at Berkeley Law in 1983. Post moved from Berkeley to Yale in 2003 and succeeded

Harold Koh Harold Hongju Koh (born December 8, 1954) is an American lawyer and legal scholar who served as the legal adviser of the Department of State in the Obama administration. He was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on March 23, 20 ...

as Dean when Koh was appointed to serve as Legal Adviser to the U.S. State Department. Post has been quoted in the ''New York Times'' on the composition of the Supreme Court. He was elected to the

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in 2011. Post's academic interests include

constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in fe ...

First Amendment First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...

legal history Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations and operates in the wider context of social history. Certain jurists and histo ...

, and affirmative action. His ''Citizens Divided'' (2014) looks at the constitutional aspects of electoral finance.

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Biography

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