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Lincoln Caplan

Longtime Journalist and Author about Law and Public Affairs. He has covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, and other parts of the government, based in Washington, D.C.

Lincoln Caplan is a Senior Research Scholar and an occasional Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He has written most recently for The American Prospect, The American Scholar, Harvard Magazine, and the website of The New Yorker. He wrote about the Supreme Court as a member of the editorial board of The New York Times. He has…

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Lincoln Caplan is a Senior Research Scholar and an occasional Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He has written most recently for The American Prospect, The American Scholar, Harvard Magazine, and the website of The New Yorker.

He wrote about the Supreme Court as a member of the editorial board of The New York Times. He has also been a staff writer for The New Yorker and an editor at U.S. News & World Report, where he oversaw U.S. News online and the magazine’s coverage of education.

From 1998 until 2006, he was on the faculty of Yale Law School as the Knight Senior Journalist, where he was the founding editor and president of Legal Affairs magazine. Legal Affairs was a finalist for two National Magazine Awards (for General Excellence and for Public Interest) and won other national awards in journalism.

From July 2006 until July 2010, he was managing partner of SeaChange Capital Partners, a nonprofit finance firm he helped launch that is now a merchant bank for nonprofits across the social sector. In its first four years of operation, it raised philanthropic capital for nonprofit organizations involved in education reform and youth development.

He is the author of five books about law, including The Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr., which (as excerpted in The New Yorker) won a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association; The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law, which was the first major book about that important post in the Justice Department and at the Supreme Court; An Open Adoption; Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire, written with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship and available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean editions as well as English; and Up Against the Law: Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court.

A graduate of Harvard College magna cum laude, he attended Cambridge University in England as a Harvard Scholar and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He clerked for the chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group, and served as a White House Fellow. He is a member of the editorial board of The American Scholar and a former member of the advisory board of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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