Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. He is the founder and director of Yale’s Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and new information technologies. He also directs the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Knight Law and Media Program at Yale.
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Books
Selected Essays
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Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society: Big Data, Private Governance, and New School Speech Regulation, SSRN, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3038939.
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Constitutional Rot, in Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America, Cass R. Sunstein, ed. (Dey Street Books, forthcoming 2018), SSRN, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2992961.
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Constitutional Rot and Constitutional Crisis, __ Maryland L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2018), SSRN, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2993320.
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The Three Laws of Robotics in the Age of Big Data, 78 Ohio State L.J. __ (forthcoming 2017), SSRN, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2890965
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Democracy and Dysfunction: An Exchange, 50 Indiana L. Rev. 281 (2016), SSRN, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2820202 (with Sanford Levinson).
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Republicanism and the Constitution of Opportunity, 94 Tex. L. Rev. 1427 (2016), pdf, SSRN, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2783064.
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Which Republican Constitution?, 32 Const. Comm. 31 (2016), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2761513.
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Cultural Democracy and the First Amendment, 110 Nw. L. Rev. 1053 (2016), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2676027.
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Information Fiduciaries and the First Amendment, 49 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1183 (2016), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2675270.
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To Alter or Abolish, 89 S. Cal. L. Rev. 399 (2016)(with Sanford Levinson), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2761525
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History, Rights, and the Moral Reading, 96 B.U. L. Rev. 1425 (2016), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2762382
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The Construction of Original Public Meaning, 31 Const. Comm. 71 (2016), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2653991.
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The Digital Transformation of Education, in EDUCATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA: TOWARD A DIGITAL FUTURE, Greenhow, C., Sonnevend, J. & Agur, C. eds., (MIT Press forthcoming 2016)(with Julia Sonnevend), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2759022.
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The Path of Robotics Law, 6 Calif. L. Rev. Circuit 45 (2015), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2586570.
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The Framework Model and Constitutional Interpretation, in in Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law, David Dyzenhaus and Malcom Thorburn, eds., (Oxford University Press, 2016), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2607105.
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Constitutional Change and Interpretation in the United States: The Official and the Unofficial, Jus Politicum, No. 14 (June 2015), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594925.
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The Last Days of Disco: Why The American Political System is Dysfunctional, 94 B.U. L. Rev. 1159 (2014), pdf, SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2403508.
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Why Are Americans Originalist?, in LAW, SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY: SOCIO-LEGAL ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF ROGER COTTERRELL, David Schiff and Richard Nobles, eds. (Ashgate Publishing 2014), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2379587.
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Old School/New School Speech Regulation, 127 Harv. L. Rev. 2296 (2014), pdf, SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2377526.
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The New Originalism and the Uses of History, 82 Fordham L. Rev. 641 (2013), pdf, SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2303980.
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Verdi’s High C, 91 Tex. L. Rev. 1687 (2013), pdf, SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2240496.
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The Court Affirms the Social Contract, in The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court’s Decision and Its Implications (Nathaniel Persily, Gillian E. Metzger, and Trevor W. Morrison, eds., Oxford University Press 2013), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2234739.
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Must We be Faithful to Original Meaning?, 7 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 57 (2013), pdf, SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2258678.
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The American Constitution as “Our Law”, 25 Yale J. L. & Human. 113 (2013), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2247584.
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Sanford Levinson’s Second Thoughts About Constitutional Faith, 48 Tulsa L. Rev. 169 (2012), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2198740.
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The Dangerous Thirteenth Amendment, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 1459 (2012)(with Sanford Levinson), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2115222.
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The First Amendment is an Information Policy, 41 Hofstra L. Rev. 1 (2012), SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2213465.
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Room for Maneuver: Julie Cohen’s Theory of Freedom in the Information State, 6 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 79 (2012), pdf, SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2134553.
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The Roots of the Living Constitution, 92 B.U. L. Rev. 1129 (2012), pdf, SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2049498.
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The Distribution of Political Faith, 71 Univ. of Md. L. Rev. 1144 (2012), pdf, SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2083246.
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Nine Perspectives on Living Orignalism, 2012 Univ. of Ill. L. Rev. 815 (2012), pdf, SSRN, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2015088.
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For more essays see the bibliography