Robert Yablon

Robert Yablon is an Associate Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. With research interests spanning across political and election law, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to his role. Yablon received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on to earn a Master’s degree in Social Policy from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He later graduated from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor for the Yale Law Journal. After graduating, he served as a law clerk for Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. Before joining academia, Yablon worked in the private sector at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.