David Yalof

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David Alistair Yalof is an American academic. He is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, where he specializes in constitutional law, judicial politics and executive branch politics.[1]

[edit] Education

Yalof is a 1984 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In his senior year at Bronx Science, Yalof won the National Forensic League National Speech and Debate Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate[2].

After high school, Yalof went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) from University of Virginia in 1988, a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School in 1991, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1997.[3]

[edit] Books

1999: Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) (ISBN 0-226-94545-6). The book was the winner of the APSA's Richard E. Neustadt Prize for the Best Book on the Presidency published in 1999. [4]

2002: The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion with Kenneth Dautrich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) (ISBN 0-521-01181-7)

2007: Constitutional Law: Civil Liberty and Individual Rights, 6th Edition with William Cohen and David Danelski (St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2007)

2008: American Government: Historical, Popular and Global Perspectives with Kenneth Dautrich (Belmont, Cal.: Cengage, 2008)

2008: The Future of the First Amendment: The Digital Media, Civic Education and Free Expression Rights in the Nation's High Schools with Kenneth Dautrich and Mark Hughes Lopez (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)