Claire Priest

Yale University

Expertise

Professional Experience

Professor of History, Secondary Appointment: Yale University; 2022 - Current; Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2015-present (appointment by courtesy)

Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law: Yale Law School; 2014 - Current; Professor of Law, 2009-14; Visiting Professor, Spring 2009; Senior Research Scholar, Fall 2008.

Professor of Law and History (by courtesy): Northwestern University School of Law; 2007 - 2009; May 2007-09; Associate Professor, 2006-07; Assistant Professor, 2002-06.

Law Clerk to The Honorable Jon O. Newman: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; 2000 - 2002

Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History: New York University School of Law; 2000 - 2001

Education

Yale University: Ph.D. (2003) | History; Honors: Yale Graduate School’s George Washington Egleston Prize for the best dissertation in American History (2003); Economic History Association’s Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in American or Canadian Economic History (2003).

Yale Law School: J.D. (2000); Honors: John M. Olin Prize (best paper on law, economics, and public policy); Joseph Parker Prize (best paper on legal history).; Activities: Yale Law Journal: Articles Editor, 1999-2000; Symposium Committee Chair, 1998-99; Editor, 1997-98; Director, Yale Legal History Forum, 1999-2000; John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99; Yale Journal on Regulation: Lead Editor and Editor 1995-96, 1996-97.