Keith Whittington

Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor and the Director of the Center for the Study of Free Speech and Academic Freedom at Yale Law School, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He writes about American constitutional law, politics and history and American political thought. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law and Harvard Law School and is a member of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin and completed his Ph.D. in political science at Yale University.
 
His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, among other outlets, and he is a regular contributor to "The Volokh Conspiracy" blog. He is the author of several books, including Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech; Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present; and You Can’t Teach That: The Battle over University Classrooms.