<h3 class="p1">&ldquo;The study and practice of law requires an understanding of how various areas of law fit together, and my goal as a professor is to not only guide students in making these connections, but to help them discover their passions among them."</h3>
<p>Quinn Yeargain is an expert in state constitutional law, studying the relationship between the organization of state government institutions and the development of policy outcomes in different areas of law. Published on the role of institutional development in criminal law, environmental law, and state government more generally, Professor Yeargain&rsquo;s scholarship currently focuses on the role of democracy in policy development.</p>
<p>Professor Yeargain graduated from the Emory University School of Law with High Honors and served as the Executive Online Editor of the Emory Law Journal and the Executive Editor of the Emory Law Supreme Court Advocacy Program. After graduation, clerking for Judge R. Lanier Anderson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Professor Yeargain served as the Associate Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and as a Lecturer, researching and teaching on the intersection between constitutional and environmental law.</p>
<p>Outside of the classroom, Professor Yeargain enjoys hiking, jazz and ragtime music, playing board games (especially Clue and Reversi), and reading murder mysteries.</p>