Patrick Weil

Patrick Weil is a Visiting Professor of Law and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow at Yale Law School. He holds appointments as a senior research fellow at the French National Research Center (University of Paris1, Pantheon-Sorbonne) and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. His work focuses on comparative immigration, citizenship, and Church-State law and policy.

• Ph.D.: Political Science, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)
• M.B.A.: ESSEC Business School
• B.A.: Public Law, University of Paris1, Pantheon-Sorbonne

Research interests include legal frameworks for citizenship, secularism in public institutions, and historical policy analyses. His publications explore topics such as denaturalization, national identity formation, and the intersection of religion and state governance. Recent work examines the origins of American immigration quotas and their anti-racist underpinnings.