Saikrishna Prakash

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash is an American legal academic who serves as the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and the Albert Clark Tate Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He was educated at Stanford University, where he majored in economics and political science, and Yale Law School, where he received the John M. Olin Fellowship in Law, Economics and Public Policy and was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Prakash was a clerk for Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He previously served as the Herzog Research Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2017. He served as the Michael Doyle and Bunny Winter Distinguished Visiting professor of law at Yale Law School in the fall 2022 term.