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Michael Paz

ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Michael Paz (he/him) is a first-generation college student from Oxnard, California, majoring in English. He is passionate about immigration law and policy. Michael has taken a gap year to work at a small immigration law firm in California, and he has worked with immigration clinics at Harvard and Yale Law Schools. For classes and freelance work, he writes long-form articles about immigration. He is driven by a theory of change that focuses on communicating how law and policy live in people’s lives, capturing in words and images authentic portraits of people.

Tom Tyler

Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory

Tom R. Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School, as well as a Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory. He is also a professor (by courtesy) at the Yale School of Management. He joined the Yale Law faculty in January 2012 as a professor of law and psychology. He was previously a University Professor at New York University, where he taught in both the psychology department and the law school.

Keith Whittington

David Boies Professor of Law

Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Whittington’s teaching and scholarship span American constitutional theory, American political and constitutional history, judicial politics, the presidency, and free speech and the law. He is the author of You Can’t Teach That!

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