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...
20 Years Later: Kelo v. City of New London
J. Peter Byrne, Eric R. Claeys, Wesley W. Horton, Timothy Sandefur, Ilya Somin
In June of 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Kelo v. City of New...
Litigation Update: City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency
Jonathan H. Adler, Robin Kundis Craig, Andre Monette
The Supreme Court recently decided that they will review a case dealing with the Clean...
Racial Preferences in Economic Benefits: From Widely Accepted to Legally Indefensible
George R. La Noue
As the United States began to emerge from its long history of legal segregation and...
Deep Dive Episode 108 – Regulating Home-Sharing and Home-Based Businesses
Brooks Rainwater, Jonathan Riches
In this episode, Brooks Rainwater and Jon Riches discuss developments in state and local regulations...
Deep Dive Episode 108 – Regulating Home-Sharing and Home-Based Businesses
Regulatory Transparency Project Teleforum
TeleforumAnalyzing the Regulatory Thicket
Brooks Rainwater, Luke A. Wake
Regulation is a pervasive and increasingly a contentious issue in 21st Century America. The propriety...
Deep Dive Episode 53 – Analyzing the Regulatory Thicket
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TeleforumDeep Dive Episode 51 – Emerging Tech and Regulation
Ryan Hagemann, Caleb Watney, William Goodwin, Gregory S. McNeal, Brooks Rainwater
This Deep Dive episode brings you the audio from the final panel at the Pepperdine Law...
EPA and U.S. Army Corps Seek to Expand Jurisdiction Under the Clean Water Act
Deidre G. Duncan, Kerry L. McGrath
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) (jointly, the...