Stephanie Barclay is a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School, and the Faculty Co-Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Her work examines the relationship between constitutional rights and democratic governance, with particular emphasis on religious liberty, free speech, and the protection of minority communities. Barclay‘s work is published or is forthcoming in leading journals such as the Chicago Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, Harvard Law Review, the Journal of Law and Religion (Cambridge Univ. Press), the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum. Her forthcoming book, Constitutional Rights in a Democracy, is under contract with Oxford University Press. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, Bloomberg BNA, The Hill, and Law 360. And her work has also been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Prior to joining Georgetown, Barclay was twice voted Professor of the Year. Barclay has also litigated constitutional cases at both the trial and appellate level, including before the U.S. Supreme Court. Barclay served as a law clerk to Judge N. Randy Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and to Justice Neil M. Gorsuch of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Barclay is a Faculty Affiliate at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School; and she is a Nootbaar Fellow at the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics at Pepperdine University. She currently serves as the Chair for the AALS Law and Religion Section and as a Member of the Executive Committee for the AALS Constitutional Law Section. She graduated summa cum laude from BYU Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. She is completing a Ph.D. in Law at Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar and a Tang Scholar.