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Lincoln Caplan is a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, Yale University. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1976), an A.B. from Harvard University (1972), and was a Harvard Scholar at the University of Cambridge (1972–73). His research focuses on legal institutions, Supreme Court dynamics, legal writing, and the intersection of law and journalism. Caplan is the author of multiple acclaimed books, including American Justice 2016: the Political Supreme Court (2016), and contributes regularly to The American Scholar and Harvard Magazine. He has served as a Guggenheim Fellow, White House Fellow, and Fellow of Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center.
He teaches courses such as Shaping Legal Opinions: Journalism and Clashes in Law and The Art of Argument: How to Write about the Law. As a former editor at The New York Times and Legal Affairs magazine, Caplan bridges legal scholarship and public discourse. He currently serves as the writing tutor at Yale’s Davenport College.
