Garrett West is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His subject areas include torts, remedies, federal courts, and administrative law. His scholarship focuses on the uses of private law theory in public law and on the problems of constitutional interpretation and doctrinal coherence through constitutional change.
West received a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an Articles and Essays Editor on the Yale Law Journal, and a B.A. from Hillsdale College in 2015. After graduating from Yale, West practiced appellate litigation in Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, Judge Thomas Griffith, and Justice Samuel Alito.
Plenary Panel 2: Justice Alito's Jurisprudence
J. Joel Alicea, Stephanos Bibas, Sherif Girgis, Michael H. Park, E. Garrett West
This panel will examine Justice Samuel Alito’s jurisprudence as a whole, with particular attention to...
From Ratio to Auctoritas: The Decline of Reason and the Rise of Authority in American and Roman Law
Alexander T. MacDonald
Are we Rome? In the United States, the question is usually directed at our politics...
Certification of State-Law Questions by Federal Courts
Benjamin Beaton, Sarah Keeton Campbell, Jennifer Perkins, Rachel Wainer Apter
In Lindenberg v. Jackson National Life Ins. Co., 912 F.3d 348 (2018), the Sixth Circuit declared...
What is the Future of Textualism?
Nicholas Bagley, William Baude, Emily Bremer, Gregory G. Katsas, Christopher J. Walker
Recently, the application of Textualism by the Supreme Court of the United States--the predominant method...
The State of the Research on the Privileges or Immunities Clause
Jud Campbell, Lawrence Lessig, Ilan Wurman
Event Video: The State of the Research on the Privileges or Immunities Clause
Litigation Update: BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
Thomas M. Fisher, Karen Harned
In 2018, the City of Baltimore filed climate change litigation in state court against multiple...
Courthouse Steps Oral Argument Teleforum: Texas v. New Mexico
Tony Francois
As an act of original jusrisdiction, the Supreme Court appointed a river master to resolve...
Topics
Remarks from the 2020 Joseph Story Award
Chair of the 2020 Joseph Story Award, Brendan Anderson “The constitution is the will, the...
Courthouse Steps Decision: Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson
Theodore "Ted" Frank
The Class Action Fairness Act permits "any defendant" to remove a class action to federal...
The Upside-Down Constitution by Michael S. Greve
Robert R. Gasaway
“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics...