As Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Danieli Evans assists with the National Constitution
Center’s constitutional content and programming, such as exhibits, podcasts, educational materials, public
debates and symposia, and developing the Center’s online Interactive Constitution.
Danieli graduated from Yale Law School in 2012. Before joining the National Constitution
Center, Danieli served as a law clerk to Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit, and Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
With Yale Law School’s Cultural Cognition Project, Danieli researches social cognition and law,
or how cultural background subconsciously influences the way people perceive evidence that is relevant
to legal and constitutional disputes. In addition to cultural cognition related topics, she has written papers
and essays relating to equal protection, religious freedom, substantive due process, administrative law,
separation of powers and statutory interpretation.
Publications:
Complicity Based Objections to the Death Penalty After Hobby Lobby, 27 STAN. L. & POL’Y REV. Online
(forthcoming 2015)
‘Ideology’ or ‘Situation Sense’? An Experimental Investigation of Motivated Reasoning and Professional
Judgment, 164 U. PENN. L. REV. (forthcoming 2015) (with Dan Kahan, David Hoffman, Neal Devins,
Judge Eugene Lucci, & Katherine Cheng)
Commercial Religious Exercise: Translating the Commercial Speech Doctrine to the Free Exercise
Clause, 103 GEO. L. J. ONLINE 50 (2014)
Magna Carta and Sovereign Immunity: Strained Bedfellows in MAGNA CARTA AND THE RULE OF LAW
(Daniel B. Magraw & F. William Brownell, eds.) (2014) (with Judge Diane P. Wood)
What Would Congress Want? If We Want to Know, Why Not Ask? 81 U. CINCINNATI L. REV. 1191 (2013)
The “Nixon Sabotage”: The Political Origins of the Equal Protection Challenge to the Voting Rights Act,
33 B.C.J.L. & SOC. JUST. 325 (2013)
Imagining a Same Sex Marriage Decision Based on Dignity: Considering Human Experience in
Constitutional Law, 37 N.Y.U. REV. OF L. & SOC. CHANGE 251 (2013)
‘They Saw a Protest’: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction, 64 STAN. L. REV. 851
(2012) (with Dan Kahan, David Hoffman, Donald Braman, & Jeffrey Rachlinski)
Note: Concrete Private Interest in Regulatory Enforcement: Tradable Environmental Rights as a Basis
for Standing, 29 YALE J. ON REG. 201 (2012)