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Aviam Soifer |
Aviam Soifer
BA, Yale University, 1969; MUS, Yale University, 1972; JD, Yale University, 1972
Dean Soifer began as dean of the law school in July 2003. He joined us after ten years at Boston College Law School, where he served as dean from 1993-1998. He teaches and writes primarily about constitutional law, legal history, and law and humanities, and he has received several awards for his scholarly publications. Dean Soifer previously was a professor at Boston University School of Law and at the University of Connecticut Law School. While a law student at Yale, Dean Soifer served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a director of the Film Society, and one of the originators of a clinical program in which law students represent residents of Connecticut's largest state mental hospital. After graduating, Dean Soifer clerked for Federal Judge Jon O. Newman. In 1999-2000, he spent a sabbatical year as a visiting colleague at the William S. Richardson School of Law. Dean Soifer has an extensive record of scholarly publications. His book, Law and the Company We Keep (Harvard University Press, 1995), was awarded the triennial Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Book Prize in professional studies in 1998. He received Boston College's Distinguished Senior Research Award in 2002, and he is a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin's Legal Studies Institute. He serves on several boards of trustees and advisory committees of public interest organizations dealing with medical care, human rights, and judicial and legal education in the United States and abroad. His recent articles and book chapters concern religious freedom, disability rights, constitutional history, and judging and judgment.
Selected Recent Publications:
Covered Bridges, 17 Yale J. of Law & the Humanities 55 (2005).
Ely the Transgressor, 117 Harv. L. Rev. 1743 (2004).
If History Mattered: John Marshall and Reframing the Constitution, 101 Mich.L.Rev. 2134 (2003).
