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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jack M. Balkin is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Law, Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Safety Research. The scientist's work covers several pertinent topics including American Constitutional Law and Politics, Law, Rights, and Freedoms, Law, AI, and Intellectual Property, Judicial and Constitutional Studies, Legal Systems and Judicial Processes, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, and Artificial Intelligence in Law.

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  • Sanford Levinson
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  • A. Feder Cooper
  • Katherine Lee

Balkin has contributed numerous publications, with a significant number appearing in the SSRN Electronic Journal, which stands as the most frequent venue with 14 publications. Other publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), Michigan Law Review, Arkansas Law Review, and Yale University Press eBooks.

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Michigan Law Review
  • Arkansas Law Review
  • Yale University Press eBooks

Selected recent papers by Jack M. Balkin include:

  • How to Regulate (and Not Regulate) Social Media, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Lawyers and Historians Argue About the Constitution, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Rot and Renewal: The 2020 Election in the Cycles of Constitutional Time, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

In the area of book publications, Balkin has published works with New York University Press eBooks and Yale University Press. Titles under New York University Press eBooks include "What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said" (2022), "Legal Canons" (2020), and "Cybercrime" (2020). From Yale University Press, titles include "Memory and Authority" (2024) and "What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said" (2020).

  • What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said
  • Legal Canons
  • Cybercrime
  • Memory and Authority
  • What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said

Among professional recognitions, Balkin was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory

    Jack M Balkin

  • Understanding the constitutional revolution

    Jack M. Balkin;Sanford Levinson

  • Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology

    Jack Balkin

  • Some Realism about Pluralism: Legal Realist Approaches to the First Amendment

    Jack M Balkin

  • The American Civil Rights Tradition: Anticlassification or Antisubordination

    Jack M. Balkin;Reva B. Siegel

  • The Constitution of Status

    Jack M Balkin

  • The Canons of Constitutional Law

    Jack M. Balkin;Sanford Levinson

  • Abortion and Original Meaning

    Jack M. Balkin

  • Old-School/New-School Speech Regulation

    Jack M Balkin

  • Understanding Legal Understanding: The Legal Subject and the Problem of Legal Coherence

    Jack M Balkin

  • The Future of Free Expression in a Digital Age

    Jack M. Balkin

  • Bush V. Gore and the Boundary between Law and Politics

    Jack M Balkin

  • Virtual Liberty: Freedom to Design and Freedom to Play in Virtual Worlds

    Jack M Balkin

  • Digital Speech and Democratic Culture: A Theory of Freedom of Expression for the Information Society

    Jack M Balkin

  • Legal Entitlements as Auctions: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Beyond

    Ian Ayres;Jack M. Balkin

  • 2016 Sidley Austin Distinguished Lecture on Big Data Law and Policy: The Three Laws of Robotics in the Age of Big Data

    Jack M. Balkin

  • How mass media simulate political transparency

    Jack M Balkin

  • Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society: Big Data, Private Governance, and New School Speech Regulation

    Jack M Balkin

  • Information Fiduciaries and the First Amendment

    Jack M Balkin

  • The state of play : law, games, and virtual worlds

    J. M. Balkin;Beth Simone Noveck

  • What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision

    Jack M. Balkin

  • Free Speech is a Triangle

    Jack M. Balkin

  • The Three Laws of Robotics in the Age of Big Data

    Jack M Balkin

  • Framework Originalism and the Living Constitution

    Jack M Balkin

  • Populism and Progressivism as Constitutional Categories

    Jack M Balkin

  • Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance

    Sanford Levinson;J. M. Balkin;Richard Taruskin

Frequent Co-Authors

Reva B. Siegel
Reva B. Siegel Yale University
Robert C. Post
Robert C. Post Yale University
Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman Yale University
Cass R. Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University
Ian Ayres
Ian Ayres Yale University

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