Tutor, Writing Center; Lecturer in English
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1976
Harvard Scholar, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, 1972-‘73
A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1972
Since 2017, I have been the writing tutor at Yale’s Davenport College. I am also a longtime author and journalist about law and public affairs. I have taught at Yale since 1998, as a lecturer in the English and the Political Science Departments and as a senior research scholar and the Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.
I am a contributing editor of The American Scholar and of Harvard Magazine, and a regular contributor of journalism to both. I was a staff writer of The New Yorker and a member of The New York Times editorial board, for which I wrote about the Supreme Court and other elements of legal affairs.
I was a co-founder and the editor and president of Legal Affairs magazine. It was a finalist for National Magazine Awards for general excellence and public interest and won national magazines for design, use of illustration, feature writing, and coverage of social justice and of business and law. All its contents are in Yale Law School’s Digital Collections.
I am also the author of six books about legal affairs, including American Justice 2016: The Political Supreme Court; The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law; and Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire.
Website: http://www.lincolncaplan.com