Contact Information
Areas of Interest
- Presidential Professor of Law
- Glenn R. Watson Centennial Chair in Law
Education
A.B., English, Harvard College, 1995
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1998
About
Professor Joseph Thai teaches and writes about the Constitution and the Supreme Court.
Professor Thai has served as law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens and Justice Byron White of the Supreme Court, as well as Judge David Ebel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
He engages in pro bono litigation in the areas of civil rights, criminal law, and constitutional law. In 2014, before the Supreme Court decided the issue nationally, his clients successfully challenged Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban as violative of the constitutional guarantees of liberty and equality.
Professor Thai has been twice named the outstanding faculty member of the College of Law by its students, and has been named the university-wide outstanding faculty member by students across campus.
Additional Information
Publications
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
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
May 7, 2014
ACSBLOG
2014
51 ALBERTA LAW REVIEW 907
(with Stephen Henderson)
2013
Aspen
April 9, 2010
New York Times
A Justice of the Greatest Generation
April 9, 2010
Washington Post
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)
2008
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Macmillan
2007
THIS I BELIEVE
Aug. 2, 2006
BOSTON GLOBE
2006
92 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 501
Is Data Mining Ever a Search Under Justice Stevens's Fourth Amendment
2006
74 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 1731