Lael D. Weinberger

Lael D. Weinberger is an attorney and historian. He is currently the the Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law at Harvard Law School. He was the Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellow at Harvard from 2019-20. He is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Chicago. He earned a law degree with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School. He also has degrees in law and history from Oak Brook College of Law, Northern Illinois University, and Thomas Edison State College. Lael clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and for Chief Justice Daniel Eismann on the Idaho Supreme Court. He has published articles, reviews, and book chapters on constitutional law, corporate law, and law and religion, appearing in venues including the University of Chicago Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Newsweek, Christianity Today, and Claremont Review. Lael co-authored (with Robert Renaud) A Tale of Two Governments, a book about the separation of church and state.