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...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Adams versus Jefferson and Madison [Session 8]
John Adams and the Alien and Sedition Acts versus Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions (1798).
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Adams versus Jefferson and Madison [Session 8]
John S. Baker
Session 8 Readings:The Alien and Sedition ActsVirginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)Novus Ordo Seclorum, Ch. 4,...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Declaration-related Rhetoric [Session 5]
Declaration-related Rhetoric
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Declaration-related Rhetoric [Session 5]
John S. Baker
Session 5 Reading:Thomas Paine, Common Sense (January 1775) (Summary) versusJohn Adams, Thoughts on Government (April 1776);Patrick Henry, “Give...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Defending the Republic through Rhetoric [Session 3]
Defending the Republic through Rhetoric: Cicero and Justice Scalia
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Defending the Republic through Rhetoric [Session 3]
John S. Baker
Session 3 Readings:The Five parts of Rhetoric, as outlined by Cicero.Our Republican Constitution, CH. 2...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Introduction [Session 1]
Do we live in a Democracy, a Republic, or a blended Democratic Republic?
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Introduction [Session 1]
John S. Baker
Session 1 Readings:Our Republican Constitution, pp. 18-28.Novus Ordo Seclorum, pp. 1-8. REASONED ARGUMENT: THE COUNTER...
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The Founding Isn't The Problem — It's The Solution
Traditionally, the Fourth of July has been a day for thankful celebration of the precious...