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.
25 of 250 - The Echoes of 9/11 in Law, Policy, and Security Today
Darrell Blocker, Jonathan Fredman, Mary Habeck, Adam R. Pearlman
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it also remembers the 25th anniversary of the September...
What Would the Founders Think of the War in Iran?
Sohan Dasgupta, Martin Flaherty, Jeremy A. Rabkin
In this Federalist Society America 250 series, experts analyze modern legal and policy debates through...
Plenary Session 1: Congressional Primacy at the Founding and Today
Featuring: Dr. Nicholas P. Cole, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford Mr. Yuval Levin, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute...
The Return of the Monroe Doctrine? Venezuela, Ecuador, and American Foreign Policy
John C. Harrison, Jeremy A. Rabkin, John C. Yoo
Nearly two centuries after President James Monroe announced a landmark foreign-policy principle in his 1823 address to...
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...
2023 Judge Rudolph T. Randa Lecture and Award
Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter
Milwaukee, WITopics
New Civil Rights Report on FEMA Hurricane Response
Every year, by law, the United States Commission on Civil Rights publishes a statutory enforcement...
What Happened to Natural Law in American Jurisprudence?
Kody Cooper
A Review of The Decline of Natural Law: How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and...
Mistaken Heritage: How a Statutory Misreading Has Denied Congress’ Intended Beneficiaries Protection for Half a Century
Dan Morenoff
When the Voting Rights Act (VRA) came up for renewal of its pre-clearance mechanism for...
The Race Card in ARPA’s Food Supply Deck
George R. La Noue
It is an old aphorism that a prudent person should not watch the making of...