Stephanie Barclay is a Professor of Law and the Anne Fleming Research Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where she also serves as Faculty Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Her scholarship examines the relationship between constitutional rights and democratic governance, with particular emphasis on religious liberty, free speech, and the protection of minority communities.

Her work has appeared in leading journals including the Harvard Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, and has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Her forthcoming book, Constitutional Rights in a Democracy, is under contract with Oxford University Press.

Before joining Georgetown, Professor Barclay was twice voted Professor of the Year, and she has litigated constitutional cases at both the trial and appellate levels, including before the U.S. Supreme Court. She served as a law clerk to Judge N. Randy Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Justice Neil M. Gorsuch of the U.S. Supreme Court. She graduated summa cum laude from BYU Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif, and studied law at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar.