Joseph Thai

Contact Information

Areas of Interest

  • Glenn R. Watson Centennial Chair in Law
  • Presidential Professor of Law

Education

A.B., English, Harvard College

J.D., Harvard Law School

About

Professor Joseph Thai teaches and writes about constitutional law and the Supreme Court. 

Prof. Thai served as law clerk to Justices John Paul Stevens and Byron White of the Supreme Court and Judge David Ebel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

He frequently engages in civil rights litigation and served on the legal team that successfully challenged Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban a year before the Supreme Court upheld marriage equality nationwide.

Every year, Prof. Thai teaches thousands of graduates from law schools across the country as the constitutional law lecturer for BARBRI, the leading bar review course in the nation.

In 2021, Prof. Thai was elected into the American Law Institute.

At the College of Law, Prof. Thai has served as Associate Dean for Research and Enrichment. Prof. Thai has often been named outstanding professor by students at the law school and once by students university-wide.  He is consistently named outstanding dad by his goldendoodle, Bach.

Additional Information

Publications

Affirmative Action’s Asian American Problem

Forthcoming 2024

LOYOLA LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW

(with Huyen Pham)

Powers Rights Wrongs: Interrogating Constitutional History and Law

2021

Kindle

Mark Zuckerberg Still Decides What Users Can Say on Facebook

May 13, 2020

MEDIUM

Facebook’s Speech Code and Policies: How They Suppress Speech and Distort Democratic Deliberation

May 2020

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW

Federal Court Ruling in OKC Case is a Victory for the First Amendment

September 2020

The Oklahoman

Justice Stevens: A Habit of Understanding Before Disagreeing

July 2019

SCOTUSBLOG

The Right to Receive Foreign Speech

2018

OKLAHOMA LAW REVIEW

(Symposium)

FIRST FREEDOMS: A MULTIMEDIA TEXTBOOK ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT

2017

Kindle

Honey (Said Justice Scalia) I Shrunk the Constitution

Feb. 22, 2016

ACSBLOG

Teaching Criminal Procedure

2015

St. LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL

(with Stephen Henderson)

Regulating Drones under the First and Fourth Amendments

2015

WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW

(with Marc Blitz et al.)

Obergefell v. Hodges: A Note to Future Self

June 26, 2015

ACSBLOG

CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS ON POLICING: A MULTIMEDIA TEXTBOOK ON CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

2014

Kindle

A Race to Execute

May 7, 2014

ACSBLOG

Crowdsourced Coursebooks

2014

51 ALBERTA LAW REVIEW 907

(with Stephen Henderson)

THE SUPREME COURT SOURCEBOOK

2013

Aspen

My Boss, Justice Stevens

April 9, 2010

New York Times

A Justice of the Greatest Generation

April 9, 2010

Washington Post

Did Justice Stevens Change?

April 2010

SCOTUSBLOG

Reprinted in SALON.COM

The Case for Oral Argument in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma

2008

61 OKLAHOMA LAW REVIEW 695

(with Andrew M. Coats)

John Paul Stevens

2008

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Macmillan

The Other Side

2007

THIS I BELIEVE

A Wild Pitch on Eavesdropping

Aug. 2, 2006

BOSTON GLOBE

The Law Clerk Who Wrote Rasul v. Bush: John Paul Stevens's Influence from World War II to the War on Terror

2006

92 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 501

Is Data Mining Ever a Search Under Justice Stevens's Fourth Amendment

2006

74 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 1731

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