Nathaniel Hay

Nathaniel Hay is a doctoral candidate specializing in the constitutional history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is interested in how the law conceives of and engages with its past, how institutional design can reinforce democratic values, and how courts and legislatures translate ideals into practice. His scholarship has explored the historical architecture of the Supreme Court, the uses of history-and-tradition analysis, and the evolution in understandings of Congress’s regulatory and standards-setting powers.

He received his AB in History from Harvard College, his MA in history from Stanford, and his JD from Yale Law School, where he was a Legal History Fellow and an Articles Editor on the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Diane S. Sykes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.