Lincoln Caplan is a Senior Research Scholar and an occasional Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He has written most recently for The American Prospect, The American Scholar, Harvard Magazine, and the website of The New Yorker.
He wrote about the Supreme Court as a member of the editorial board of The New York Times and as a staff writer for The New Yorker.
From 1998 until 2006, he was on the faculty of Yale Law School as the Knight Senior Journalist, where he was the founding editor and president of Legal Affairs magazine.
He is the author of six books about law, including the new book American Justice 2016: The Political Supreme Court, about the Court's most recent term. His other books are: The Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr., which (as excerpted in The New Yorker) won a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association; The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law, which was the first major book about that important post in the Justice Department and at the Supreme Court; An Open Adoption; Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire, written with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship and available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean editions as well as English; and Up Against the Law: Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court.
