List of Yale Law School alumni

University presidents • Nicholas Allard (1979), president and dean of Brooklyn Law School • Michelle Anderson (born 1967), president of Brooklyn College • Nancy Y. Bekavac (1973), president of Scripps College • Alfred Benjamin Butts (1930), chancellor of the University of Mississippi • Gerhard Casper (LL.M. 1962), president of Stanford University • Hiram Chodosh (1990), president of Claremont McKenna College • Ronald J. Daniels (1988), president of Johns Hopkins University • Nora Demleitner (1992), president of St. John's College - Annapolis • JoAnne A. Epps (1976), provost, Temple University • William R. Greiner, president of the University at Buffalo • Ira Michael Heyman (1956), chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley • Robert Hutchins (1925), president and chancellor of the University of Chicago • Joseph S. Iseman (1941), acting president of Bennington College • Thomas H. Jackson (1975), president of University of Rochester • Marvin Krislov (1988), president of Oberlin College • Ted Landsmark (1973), president of the Boston Architectural College • Frederick M. Lawrence (1980), president of Brandeis University • Edward H. Levi (1938), president of the University of Chicago • Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland, College Park • Linda Lorimer, vice president of Yale University; president of Randolph-Macon Woman's College • Cyrus Northrop, president of the University of Minnesota • Russell K. Osgood (1974), president of Grinnell College, dean of Cornell Law School, and dean of Washington University School of Law • Ariel Porat (1990), president of Tel Aviv University • Robert Prichard (LL.M. 1976), president of the University of Toronto • Wendell Pritchett, chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden, provost of the University of Pennsylvania • Michael H. Schill (1984), president of the University of Oregon • Clayton Spencer (1985), president of Bates College • Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (1962), president of George Washington University • Louis Vogel (LL.M. 1982), president of Panthéon-Assas University • Joan Wexler, president and dean of Brooklyn Law School Law school deans '79 • T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1977), dean of Georgetown University Law Center • Mark C. Alexander, dean of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law • Michelle Anderson (1994), dean of City University of New York Law School • Evan Caminker (1986), dean of the University of Michigan Law School • Nora Demleitner (1992), dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law • John Hart Ely (1963), dean of Stanford Law School • JoAnne A. Epps (1976), dean of Temple Law School • Sarah Harding, dean of Schulich School of Law • Robert Klonoff (1979), dean of Lewis & Clark Law School • Anthony T. Kronman (1975), dean of Yale Law School • Saul Levmore (1980), dean of the University of Chicago Law School • Paul Mahoney (1984), dean of the University of Virginia School of Law • Earl F. Martin (LL.M. 1996), dean of Gonzaga University School of Law • Michael Meltsner (JD 1960), dean of Northeastern University School of Law • Martha Minow (1979), dean of Harvard Law School • Jennifer Mnookin (1995), dean of UCLA Law School • Russell D. Niles (LL.M. 1931), dean of New York University School of Law • Louis H. Pollak (1943), dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School • Robert Post (1977), dean of Yale Law School • Norman Redlich (1950), dean of New York University School of Law • Richard Revesz (1983), dean of New York University School of Law • Cristina M. Rodríguez (2000), dean of Yale Law School • Michael H. Schill (1984), dean of UCLA Law School and University of Chicago Law School • David Schizer (1993), dean of Columbia Law School • Aviam Soifer (1972), dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law • William Treanor (1985), dean of Georgetown University Law Center • Frans Vanistendael (LL.M.), dean of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Kevin K. Washburn (1993), dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law Legal scholars Constitutional law • Bruce Ackerman (1967), professor at Yale Law School and author of Social justice in the Liberal State • Akhil Amar (1984), professor at Yale Law School • Vikram Amar (1988), professor at the University of California Davis School of Law • C. Edwin Baker, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School • Charles Black, professor at Yale Law School • Philip Bobbitt (1975), professor at Columbia Law School and author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History • William Eskridge (1978), professor at Yale Law School • Noah Feldman (1997), professor at Harvard Law School; scholar on Islamic law • Paul W. Kahn (1980), professor at Yale Law School • Charles A. Reich (1952), professor at Yale Law School • Kermit Roosevelt III (1997), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School • Reva Siegel (1986), professor at Yale Law School • Carol M. Swain (M.S.L. Law), professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University • Charles Alan Wright (1949), professor at University of Texas School of Law • Kenji Yoshino (1996), professor at New York University School of Law • Johannes Reich (1975), professor at the University of Zurich Criminal law '62 • Barbara Babcock (1963), professor at Stanford Law School • Alan Dershowitz (1962), professor at Harvard Law School • Don Kates, professor at Saint Louis University School of Law • Mark Osler (1990), professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law clemency advocate, and critic of capital punishment Civil and human rights law '77 • David D. Cole (1984), professor at Georgetown University Law Center • Lani Guinier (1974), professor at Harvard Law School; the first tenured female African–American professor at Harvard Law School • Christof Heyns (LL.M.), professor at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa • Randall Kennedy (1982), professor at Harvard Law School • Andrew Koppelman (1989), professor at Northwestern University • Catharine MacKinnon (1977), professor at the University of Michigan Law School • Tobias Barrington Wolff (1997), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Intellectual property '89 • Ryan Abbott, professor at the University of Surrey School of Law • Lori Andrews, professor at Chicago–Kent College of Law • Susan P. Crawford, professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law • Lawrence Lessig, professor at Harvard Law School and professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society • Eben Moglen (1985), professor at Columbia Law School and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center International law • Harold J. Berman (1947), professor at Harvard Law School and Emory Law School • George Bermann (1971), professor at Columbia Law School • Rosa Brooks (1996), professor at Georgetown University Law Center • Steve Charnovitz (1998), professor at George Washington University Law Schoolt • Jerome Cohen (1955), professor at New York University School of Lawt • Jack Goldsmith (1989), professor at Harvard Law School • David O'Keeffe (LL.M. 1978), professor of European Law at University of Durham, University College London, and the University of London • John Yoo (1992), professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Jurisprudence • Peter Berkowitz, professor at George Mason University School of Law • Jules Coleman (1976), professor at Yale Law School • Arthur Corbin (1899), professor at Yale Law School • Jan Deutsch (1962), professor at Yale Law School • Richard Epstein (1968), professor at New York University Law School • Duncan Kennedy (1970), professor at Harvard Law • Karl Llewellyn, professor at Columbia Law School and University of Chicago Law School Law professors • Matthew Adler (1991), law professor at Duke Law School • Ian Ayres (1986), professor at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management • David C. Baldus (1964, LL.M. 1969), professor at the University of Iowa College of Law • Boris Bittker (1941), professor at Yale Law School • David Blankfein-Tabachnick (M.S.L. 2008), professor and associate dean at Michigan State University College of Law • Peter A. Bradford (1964), professor at Vermont Law School • Tomiko Brown-Nagin, professor at Harvard Law School • Stephen Carter, professor at Yale Law School • John C. Coffee (1969), professor at Columbia Law School • Arthur Linton Corbin (1899), professor at Yale Law School • Omar Dajani, professor at McGeorge School of Law • Harlon L. Dalton, professor at Yale Law School • Stuart L. Deutsch (1969), professor at Rutgers School of Law–Newark • Bill Dodge (1991), professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law • Elizabeth Emens (2002), professor at Columbia Law School • Cynthia Estlund (1983), professor at New York University School of Law • Bill Felstiner (1958), professor at Cardiff University, • Claire Finkelstein (1993), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School • Nicole Garnett (1995), professor at Notre Dame Law School • Richard Garnett (1995), professor at Notre Dame Law School • Michael Gottesman, professor at Georgetown University Law Center • Daniel Halberstam, professor at the University of Michigan Law School • Clarence Halbert (1897), co–founder of William Mitchell College of Law • Kermit L. Hall, legal historian and member of the Assassination Records Review Board • Philip Hamburger (1982), professor at Columbia Law School • Samuel Issacharoff (1983), professor at New York University School of Law • Brian Kalt (1997), professor at Michigan State University College of Law • Michael I. Krauss (LL.M. 1978), professor at George Mason University School of Law • Ethan Leib (2003), professor at Fordham Law School • Louis Loss (1937), professor at Harvard Law School • Jonathan R. Macey (1982), professor at Yale Law School • Robert T. Miller (1997), professor at the University of Iowa College of Law • Eric L. Muller (1987), professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law • H. Jefferson Powell (1982), professor at George Washington University School of Law • Jedediah Purdy (2001), professor at Duke University Law School • Charles A. Reich (1952), professor at Yale Law School • Glenn Reynolds, professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law • L. Song Richardson (1966/67), chancellor's professor of law, University of California, Irvine School of Law • Deborah Rhode (1977), professor at Stanford Law School • Daniel Richman (1984), professor of law at Columbia Law School • Fred Rodell (1931), professor at Yale Law School • Joel Rogers, professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School • Chris William Sanchirico (1994), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School • Brett Scharffs (1992), professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School • Wesley Alba Sturges (1923), professor at Yale Law School • Eleanor Swift, professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law • Donald F. Turner (1950), professor at Harvard Law School • Mark Tushnet (1971), professor at Harvard Law School • Steven Walt (1988), professor at the University of Virginia School of Law • Matthew Waxman, professor at Columbia Law School • Mark S. Weiner, professor at Rutgers School of Law–Newark • Charles Whitebread, professor at the University of Southern California Law School • Steven Wilf, professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law • Michael Wishnie, professor at Yale Law School • Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, professor at Yale Law School • Katra Zajc (LL.M.), professor at the University of Ljubljana Other scholars • Peter Berkowitz, professor of political science at Harvard University • Scott Boorman (1978), professor of sociology at Yale University • Lawrence Douglas (1989), professor at Amherst College • Henry Louis Gates (did not graduate), professor of history at Harvard University • Murray Gerstenhaber (1948), mathematician and professor at the University of Pennsylvania • Austin Sarat (1988), professor of political science at Amherst College • Ian Shapiro (1987), professor of political science at Yale University • Ruth Wedgwood, professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies • Michael Woodford, professor of economics at Columbia University • Kyu Ho Youm (M.S.L.), professor of journalism at the University of Oregon ==Activism and nonprofits==