David Yalof

David Alistair Yalof is an American academic. He is Professor and Department Head of the Political Science department at the University of Connecticut, where he specializes in constitutional law, judicial politics and executive branch politics. His books include Pursuit of Justices, which NBC News called "the definitive book on post-World War II Supreme Court nominees".

Education
Yalof is a 1984 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In his senior year at Bronx Science, Yalof won the National Forensic League National Speech and Debate Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate.

After high school, Yalof went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) from University of Virginia in 1988, a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School in 1991, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1997..

While at the University of Virginia as an undergraduate, Yalof was editor-in-chief of The Cavalier Daily, the university's daily student newspaper.

Books

 * 1999: Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) (ISBN 0-226-94545-6). The book was the winner of the APSA's Richard E. Neustadt Prize for the Best Book on the Presidency published in 1999.
 * 2002: The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion with Kenneth Dautrich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) (ISBN 0-521-01181-7)
 * 2007: Constitutional Law: Civil Liberty and Individual Rights, 6th Edition with William Cohen and David Danelski (St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2007) (ISBN 0-159-94117-09)
 * 2008: American Government: Historical, Popular and Global Perspectives with Kenneth Dautrich (Belmont, Cal.: Cengage, 2008) (ISBN 0-015-505073-7)
 * 2008: The Future of the First Amendment: The Digital Media, Civic Education and Free Expression Rights in America's High Schools with Kenneth Dautrich and Mark Hugo Lopez (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) (ISBN 0-742-56282-4)
 * 2012: Prosecution Among Friends: Presidents, Attorneys General, and Executive Branch Wrongdoing (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2012).''

Notable Articles

 * "Collegiality on the U.S. Supreme Court: An Early Assessment of the Roberts Court,” Judicature, Vol. 95, No. 1 (July-August 2011), pp. 12-19 (with Joey Mello and Patrick Schmidt).
 * “Schools, Education Policy, and the Future of the First Amendment,” Political Communication, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 84-101 (January-March 2009) (with Mark Lopez, Peter Levine and Kenneth Dautrich)
 * “Confirmation Obfuscation: Supreme Court Confirmation Politics in a Conservative Era,” in Austin Sarat, ed., Studies in Law, Politics & Society (London: Elsevier, 2008), Vol. 44, pp. 143-173.
 * “Dress Rehearsal Politics and the Case of Earmarked Judicial Nominees,” Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 26 (January 2005), pp. 691-709.
 * “Courts and the Definition of Defendants’ Rights” in Kermit Hall and Kevin McGuire, eds., American Institutions of Democracy: The Judicial Branch, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 432-458.
 * “The Swing Voter Revisited: Justice Anthony Kennedy and the First Amendment Right of Free Speech” Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 57, No.2 (June 2004), pp. 209-217.(with Patrick Schmidt).