• Constitutional Law
• Federal Courts
• Criminal Law 
• Law of Democracy
• Comparative Constitutional Methodology

Education

• Yale Law School, J.D., 2005
• Harvard College, B.A., economics, 1999

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Detailed Biography:

Jamal Greene, a constitutional law expert, focuses on the political construction of constitutional law. He examines how political framing, such as the rhetoric associated with originalism, affects constitutional practice.

Greene earned his J.D. from Yale in 2005, and then clerked for the Hon. Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New Haven, for the 2005-06 term. He followed that by clerking for Justice John Paul Stevens at the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2006-07 term. Greene was a summer associate in 2004 at Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, and at Beldock, Levine & Hoffman, LLP.

After graduating from Harvard in 1999, he was a reporter for three years at Sports Illustrated.

He then enrolled at Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor for the Yale Law Journal and served as a teaching assistant for Contracts, Distributive Justice and the Constitution, and Constitutional Litigation. He turned his writing skills to legal scholarship, and won the Burton H. Brody Prize for best paper on constitutional privacy, the Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Prize and the Edgar M. Cullen Prize for the best paper by a first-year law student.

Recent Publications:

• Selling Originalism (in progress)
•  "Giving the Constitution to the Courts," Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2008), a review of Keith E. Whittington's Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, The Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History 
•  "Beyond Lawrence: Metaprivacy and Punishment," Yale Law Journal (2006)
•  "Lawrence and the Right to Metaprivacy," Yale Law Journal (The Pocket Part, May 2006) 
• Comment, "Divorcing Marriage from Procreation," Yale Law Journal (2005)
•  Note, "Judging Partisan Gerrymanders Under the Elections Clause," Yale Law Journal (2005)
•  "Hands Off Policy: Equal Protection and the Contact Sports Exemption of Title IX," Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (2005)
•  Note, "Disappearing Dilemmas: Judicial Construction of Ethical Choice as Strategic Behavior in the Criminal Defense Context," Yale Law & Policy Review (2005) (with co-authors).