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| Robert Post, YLS '77, Named Dean of Yale Law School |
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| 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.
Most Recent
Forthcoming
Articles
Michelle Wilde Anderson, Dissolving Cities, 121 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2012), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1919768.
Ian Ayres, Regulating Opt-Out: An Economic Theory of Altering Rules, 121 YALE L.J. (forthcoming 2012), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1934412.
D. James Greiner & Cassandra W. Pattanayak, Randomized Evaluation in Legal Assistance: What Difference Does Representation Make?, 121 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2012), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1708664.
Daryl J. Levinson, Rights and Votes, 121 YALE L.J. (forthcoming 2012), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1889264.
Ruth Mason & Michael Knoll, What Is Tax Discrimination?, 121 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2012), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1647014.
Christopher Re & Richard Re, Voting and Vice: Criminal Disenfranchisement and the Reconstruction Amendments, 121 YALE L.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Notes
Barrett Anderson, Note, Recognizing Character: A New Perspective on Character Evidence, 121 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Jesse Cross, Note, “Done in Convention”: The Attestation Clause and the Declaration of Independence, 121 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Miles Farmer, Note, Mandatory and Fair?: A Better System of Mandatory Arbitration, 121 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Eric Fish, Note, The Twenty-Sixth Amendment Enforcement Power, 121 Yale l.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Jonah Gelbach, Note, Locking the Doors to Discovery? Conceptual Challenges in and Empirical Results for Assessing the Effects of Twombly and Iqbal on Access to Discovery, 121 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Danielle M. Lang, Note, Padilla v. Kentucky: The Effect of Plea Colloquy Warnings on Defendants’ Ability to Bring Successful Padilla Claims, 121 Yale l.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Nick McLean, Note, Cross-National Patterns in FCPA Enforcement, 121 Yale l.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Comments
Douglas Lieb, Comment, Can Section 1983 Help To Prevent the Execution of Mentally Retarded Prisoners?, 121 Yale l.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Jeffrey Love, Comment, Second Order Clear Statement Rules, 121 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Margaret B. Weston, Comment, One Person, No Vote: Staggered Elections, Redistricting, and Disenfranchisement, 121 Yale l.J. (forthcoming 2012).
David Wishnick, Comment, Corporate Purposes, Contractual Freedom, and Default Rule Clarity: A Comment on eBay v. Newmark, 121 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2012).
Yale Law Journal Online
Akhil Reed Amar, The Lawfulness of Health-Care Reform, 121 Yale L.J. Online (forthcoming 2012), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1856506.
Jules L. Coleman, Mistakes, Misunderstandings and Misalignments, 121 YALE L.J. ONLINE (forthcoming 2012), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1970091.Michael C. Dorf & Neil S. Siegel, “Early-Bird Special” Indeed!: Why the Tax Anti-Injunction Act Permits the Present Challenges to the Minimum Coverage Provision, 121 YALE L.J. ONLINE (forthcoming 2012), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1969540.
Daniel A. Farber, Preventing Policy Default: Fallbacks and Failsafes in the Modern Administrative State, 121 YALE L.J. ONLINE (forthcoming 2012).
Lawrence Fox, The Gang of Thirty-Three: Taking the Wrecking Ball to Client Loyalty, 121 YALE L.J. ONLINE (forthcoming 2012).
James W. Jones and Anthony E. Davis, In Defense of a Reasoned Dialogue about Law Firms and their Sophisticated Clients, 121 YALE L.J. ONLINE (forthcoming 2012).
Robin Bradley Kar, Outcasting, Globalization, and the Emergence of International Law, 121 YALE L.J. ONLINE (forthcoming 2012), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1972420.
Andrew Koppelman, Bad News for Everybody, 121 YALE L.J. ONLINE (forthcoming 2012).
Gary Lawson & David B. Kopel, Bad News for John Marshall, 121 YALE L.J. ONLINE (forthcoming 2012).
Jonathan Zasloff, Courts in the Age of Dysfunction, 121 YALE L.J. ONLINE (forthcoming 2012), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1937963.