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Lorianne Updike Toler is a Visiting Associate Professor in Law at Yale Law School (Yale University), serving during the spring term. She previously held faculty positions at Northern Illinois University College of Law and taught as a visitor at Penn State Law and New England Law. Her expertise focuses on constitutional interpretation, comparative constitutionalism, and historical legal processes, particularly in the U.S., early state frameworks, and the Middle East/North Africa region. She has contributed to the Supreme Court’s historical jurisprudence through amicus briefs and scholarship.
- Education:
- M.St., University of Oxford, 2010
- J.D., Brigham Young University Law School, 2005
- B.A., Brigham Young University, 2000
Her research emphasizes the intersection of constitutional history and modern legal interpretation, including the Supreme Court’s use of historical precedent. She has published in leading journals such as The University of Chicago Law Review and International Journal of Constitutional Law.
Updike Toler founded ConSource.org, the first free online library of U.S. constitutional sources, and advised Libya’s post-revolution constitution-writing process. She co-founded the Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford) and led Libertas Constitutional Consulting (2010–2018). She has held fellowships including the Olin Searle Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (2020–21).
Her teaching spans constitutional history, professional responsibility, and international law. She collaborates with students on historical amicus briefs in appellate cases.
