Keith Whittington

Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the faculty director of the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale University. He works on American constitutional history, politics and law, and on American political thought. He is the author of You Can’t Teach That! The Battle Over University Classrooms and Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech, among other works. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Texas School of Law, and he is a member of the American Academy of 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.