J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004
M.S., Oxford University, 2000
M.A., Duke University, 1998
B.A., Brown University, 1997
Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the field of constitutional law and is the author of “The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education” (forthcoming, September 2025).
An elected member of the American Law Institute and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, President Biden appointed Driver to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. A recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize, Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews. He has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
His first book — "The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind” — was selected as a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times Book Review. “The Schoolhouse Gate” also received the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law and was a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award.
Before joining the Yale faculty, Driver taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the University of Texas, and the University of Virginia. He is a graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), Duke (where he received certification to teach public school), and Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review). After graduating from Harvard, Driver served as a law clerk at U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and at the Supreme Court of the United States.
