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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Reva B. Siegel is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences, with a particular focus on political science, international relations, sociology, law, and gender studies. Their research encompasses several main topics including legal systems and judicial processes, American constitutional law and politics, feminist theory and gender studies, reproductive health and technologies, law, rights, and freedoms, judicial and constitutional studies, and gun ownership and violence research.

Their scholarly publications cover a range of themes, as evidenced by recent papers including the following:

  • Memory Games: Dobbs's Originalism As Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism-and Some Pathways for Resistance (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Equal Protection in Dobbs and Beyond: How States Protect Life Inside and Outside of the Abortion Context (2023, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law)
  • Why Regulate Guns? (2020, The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics)
  • Conscience Wars in the Americas (2020, Latin American Law Review)
  • Conscience Wars in the Americas (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Siegel has frequent co-authorship relationships with several researchers including Douglas NeJaime, Melissa E. Murray, Joseph Blocher, Mary Ziegler, and Serena Mayeri, highlighting established collaborative work in related areas.

The scholar has published in a variety of academic journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
  • The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics
  • Latin American Law Review
  • The Supreme Court Review

In addition to articles, Reva B. Siegel has authored book publications through Yale University Press, including the title What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said published in 2020.

Among honors received, Siegel was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Reasoning from the body: a historical perspective on abortion regulation and questions of equal protection.

    Reva B Siegel

  • The American Civil Rights Tradition: Anticlassification or Antisubordination

    Jack M. Balkin;Reva B. Siegel

  • "The Rule of Love": Wife Beating as Prerogative and Privacy

    Reva B. Siegel

  • Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change: The Case of the De Facto Era. 2005-06 Brennan Center Symposium Lecture

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  • Roe Rage: Democratic Constitutionalism and Backlash

    Robert C Post;Reva B Siegel

  • Equality Talk: Antisubordination and Anticlassification Values in Constitutional Struggles Over Brown

    Reva B Siegel

  • Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change: The Case of the de facto ERA

    Reva B Siegel

  • Popular Constitutionalism, Departmentalism, and Judicial Supremacy

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  • She the People: The Nineteenth Amendment, Sex Equality, Federalism, and the Family

    Reva B. Siegel

  • Why Equal Protection No Longer Protects: The Evolving Forms of Status-Enforcing State Action

    Reva B Siegel

  • Home As Work: The First Woman's Rights Claims Concerning Wives' Household Labor, 1850-1880

    Reva B Siegel

  • Directions in Sexual Harassment Law

    Catharine A. MacKinnon;Reva B. Siegel

  • Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller

    Reva B. Siegel

  • The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence

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  • Principles, Practices, and Social Movements

    Jack M. Balkin;Reva B. Siegel

  • Originalism As a Political Practice: The Right’s Living Constitution

    Robert C Post;Reva B Siegel

  • Text in Contest: Gender and the Constitution from a Social Movement Perspective

    Reva B. Siegel

  • Popular Constitutionalism, Departmentalism, and Judicial Supremacy

    Robert C Post;Reva B Siegel

  • Legislative Constitutionalism and Section Five Power: Policentric Interpretation of the Family and Medical Leave Act

    Robert C. Post;Reva B. Siegel

  • The New Politics of Abortion: An Equality Analysis of Woman-Protective Abortion Restrictions

    Reva B Siegel

  • Sex Equality Arguments for Reproductive Rights: Their Critical Basis and Evolving Constitutional Expression

    Reva B Siegel;Reva B Siegel

  • Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling

    Linda Greenhouse;Reva B. Siegel

  • Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law

    Cynthia Fuchs Epstein;Robert C. Post;K. Anthony Appiah;Judith Butler

  • Discrimination in the Eyes of the Law: How Color Blindness Discourse Disrupts and Rationalizes Social Stratification

    Reva B. Siegel

  • Equal Protection by Law: Federal Antidiscrimination Legislation After Morrison and Kimel

    Robert C Post;Reva B Siegel

  • Roe’s Roots: The Women’s Rights Claims that Engendered Roe

    Reva B Siegel

  • 2005-06 Brennan Center Symposium Lecture - Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change: The Case of the De Facto Era

    Reva Siegel;Reva Siegel

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Post
Robert C. Post Yale University
Jack M. Balkin
Jack M. Balkin Yale University
Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh Yale University

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