Gordon Silverstein

Following his undergraduate education at Cornell University -- where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the financially and editorially independent Cornell Daily Sun -- Silverstein worked as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal in New York and Hong Kong and The San Francisco Chronicle before going to Harvard University where he earned his PhD. He has also held faculty positions in law, political science and administrative science at Rice University, Dartmouth College, the University of Minnesota, Lewis & Clark College and the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he served as a Program Director for the non-profit, non-partisan New America Foundation in Washington DC.

As Assistant Dean at Yale Law School, Silverstein is helping to develop and implement a PhD in Law degree program as well as administer Yale Law's Schools other post-graduate programs including the LLM, JSD and MSL degree programs. Silverstein has long experience teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in public and constitutional law, civil liberties, comparative constitutionalism, national security law and the separation of powers among others. In addition to his two books, he has published articles and book chapters on a range of topics including comparative constitutionalism, the rule of law, law and courts in Singapore, Hong Kong and Europe, American political thought and American foreign policy in edited volumes, academic journals and in magazines and online venues including The American Prospect, the Washington Monthly and The New Republic-Online.