Knight Chair Jack Balkin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute. He is the author of more than 140 articles in different fields, including constitutional theory, Internet law, freedom of speech, reproductive rights, jurisprudence, and the theory of ideology. He founded and edits the blog Balkinization and has written widely on legal issues for The New York Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Atlantic, and Slate, among others. 

Balkan is the founder and director of Yale’s Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and new information technologies. He also directs the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, and the Knight Law and Media Program at Yale.

His books include The Cycles of Constitutional Time; Democracy and Dysfunction (with Sanford Levinson); Living Originalism; Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World; Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (7th ed. with Brest, Levinson, Amar, and Siegel); Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology; The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life; What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said;  What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, and Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation (Yale University Press 2024).