Neil S. Siegel, David W. Ichel Distinguished Professor of Law

Contact Info:

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• LAW 342.01, FEDERAL COURTS Synopsis

  TBA, MW 08:30 AM-10:20 AM

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2001

J.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2001

Field Examination in American Constitutional Theory, 1999

Field Examinations in Law & Economics, 1997

M.A., Duke University, 1995

B.A., summa cum laude, Duke University, 1994

Specialties:

American Politics

Research Interests:

Neil S. Siegel is Assistant Profesor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. His teaching and research center on constitutional law, federal courts, and related areas, including constitutional theory and strategic analysis of constitutional law. Professor Siegel clerked for Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the U.S. Supreme Court's October 2003 Term. During the previous two years, he served first as a law clerk to then-Chief Justice J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Duke, and a law degree and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social Policy from UC Berkeley. He is currently Special Counsel to U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Siegel, N; Bradley, C, Historical Gloss, Constitutional Conventions, and the Judicial Separation of Powers, Georgetown Law Journal, vol. 105 (2017), pp. 255-322 [3573] .
2. Siegel, N; Siegel, R, Sex Equality's Past--and Future: Pregnancy, Contraception, and Abortion (2017) .
3. Siegel, N, Reciprocal Legitimation in the Federal Courts System, Vanderbilt Law Review, vol. 70 (2017), pp. 1183-1247 .
4. Siegel, N, Norms and Conventions Meet Donald Trump, Oxford Human Rights Hub (2017) .
5. Siegel, N, The U.S. Constitution, Constitutionational Conventions, and President Trump, Oxford Human Rights Hub (2017) .