Lorianne Updike Toler, BA, JD, MSt

(Visiting Professor)

Lorianne Updike Toler is a constitutional scholar and Visiting Associate Professor at Yale Law School. She is also an Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Previously, she was an Olin Searle Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project and the president of Libertas Constitutional Consulting, where she specialized in constitution-writing best practices, working on and living in Libya and the MENA region.  She helped found The Quill Project at Oxford and was the founding president of The Constitutional Sources Project (www.ConSource.org) in Washington, DC (now owned by Quill). A graduate of Brigham Young University’s School of Communications and Law School (both magna cum laude) and Oxford (MSt), Updike Toler has published, spoken, and taught on US constitutional history and comparative constitutional history.