Gordon Silverstein

Gordon Silverstein is Assistant Dean at Yale Law School, where he is helping to develop and implement a PhD in Law degree program, as well as administering Yale Law School's other graduate programs, including the LLM, JSD and MSL degree programs. Silverstein is the author of Imbalance of Powers: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy and Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics, which was awarded the 2009 C. Herman Pritchett Award for...See more

Gordon Silverstein is Assistant Dean at Yale Law School, where he is helping to develop and implement a PhD in Law degree program, as well as administering Yale Law School's other graduate programs, including the LLM, JSD and MSL degree programs. Silverstein is the author of Imbalance of Powers: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy and Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics, which was awarded the 2009 C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book published in the field of law and courts that year. Silverstein also has published work focused on comparative constitutionalism, with a focus on Singapore, Hong Kong and Europe. See less