| Robert Post, YLS '77, Named Dean of Yale Law School |
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| Written by Jeff Lee, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
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Alumni of The Yale Law Journal currently serve as deans of nearly twenty of the nation's leading law schools, including Harvard (Martha Minow, '79), New York University (Richard Revesz, '83), Columbia (David Schizer, '93), the University of Pennsylvania (Michael Fitts, '79), the University of Virginia (Paul Mahoney, '84), the University of Michigan (Evan Caminker, '86), and Georgetown (T. Alexander Aleinikoff, '77). Following his graduation from Yale Law School in 1977, Professor Post served as a law clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1978 to 1979, he was a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court, after which he practiced law at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. Until his return to Yale, he was the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). For further information on Professor Post's career, publications, and appointment, please click here. The Journal congratulates Dean Post on his appointment, and bids farewell to a gracious neighbor. |
On June 22, 2009, Robert C. Post (Note Editor, Vol. 86, 1977) was named Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Post, who has been the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale since 2003, is the seventh alumnus of The Yale Law Journal to become Dean of the Law School. He becomes the sixteenth Dean of Yale Law School, succeeding Harold Hongju Koh, who now serves as Legal Adviser to the U.S. State Department. Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, served as Acting Dean between March and July.