On Thursday, September 24, at 4:30pm at The Study at Yale (1157 Chapel St, New Haven), the Buckley Institute is excited to host the 2026 Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize honoring 2026 prize recipient Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Driver will give a lecture, which will be followed by a reception.
Advance RSVP is required. This event is free and open to Yale students, faculty, staff, alumni, and Buckley Institute supporters.
RSVP by the September 18 deadline by emailing Development Associate Matt Teitelbaum at
matt@buckleyinstitute.com to secure your spot.
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Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the field of constitutional law and is the author of
The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education, which was selected as an Editors’ Choice of
The New York Times Book Review.
A Guggenheim Fellow, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Driver served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. He has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews, and received the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize. He has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in
The Atlantic,
The New Republic,
The New York Times, and
The Washington Post.
His first book—
The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind—was selected as a
Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of
The New York Times Book Review.
The Schoolhouse Gate also received the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law and was a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award. In 2026, the Buckley Institute awarded him the Lux et Veritas Prize for fostering intellectual diversity for students at Yale University.
Before joining the Yale faculty, Driver taught at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia, and the Westville Correctional Facility of Indiana. He is a graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), Duke (where he received certification to teach public school), and Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review). After graduating from Harvard, Driver served as a law clerk at U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and at the Supreme Court of the United States.
