Robert Sedler


Robert A. Sedler is an American distinguished law professor at Wayne State University Law School, specializing in Constitutional law. Sedler began teaching at Wayne Law in 1977, prior to which he was a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law.

Life and career

Sedler graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 1956, and later obtained a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, in 1959.
Sedler worked with the American Civil Liberties Union in Kentucky starting in the 1960s, serving as the ACLU of Kentucky's first general counsel, from 1967 to 1975. While with the ACLU, Sedler opposed racial segregation and challenges to the First Amendment.
Sedler has written dozens of essays on First Amendment and civil rights jurisprudence. He has authored one textbook, Constitutional Law in the United States, and a book on conflict of laws, Across State Lines.