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News Tip: Legal Experts Available to Comment on Gay Marriage Decisions

Neil Siegel is an expert on constitutional law and the Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday on same-sex marriage laws.  Neil SiegelProfessor of law and political science, director of the Program in Public Law, Duke University Law Schoolnsiegel@law.duke.eduhttp://www.law.duke.edu/fac/siegel Siegel is an expert on constitutional law and theory, and the Supreme Court. He served as special counsel to former Sen. Joseph Biden during the confirmation hearings of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. During the October 2003 term, Siegel clerked for associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ernest Young Alston & Bird Professor of Law, Duke University Law School young@law.duke.edu http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/young Young is one of the nation's leading authorities on the constitutional law of federalism, constitutional interpretation and constitutional theory. He and his co-authors filed a federalism-based argument against the Defense of Marriage Act.