Joseph Thai

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.