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Dean of Yale Law School
Incumbent Heather K. Gerken since 2017
Seat	Yale University
Formation	1873
First holder	Francis Wayland III
Website	Office of the Dean

The Dean of Yale Law School serves as the administrative head of the law school of Yale University. Since the office's establishment in 1873, there have been 17 deans of the school.

The current dean, Heather K. Gerken, entered the office in 2017, succeeding Robert C. Post.

List of deans of Yale Law School

Source:

No.	Picture	Name	Education	Took office	Left office
1		Francis Wayland III	Harvard University	1873	1903
2		Henry Wade Rogers	University of Michigan	1903	1916
3		Thomas Walter Swan	Yale University Harvard Law School	1916	1927
4		Robert Maynard Hutchins	Yale University	1927	1929
5		Charles Edward Clark	Yale University	1929	1939
6		Ashbel Green Gulliver	Yale University	1940	1946
7		Wesley Alba Sturges	Yale University	1946	1954
8		Harry Shulman	Brown University Harvard Law School	1954	1955
9		Eugene Victor Rostow	Yale University	1955	1965
10		Louis Heilprin Pollak	Harvard University Yale Law School	1965	1970
11		Abraham Samuel Goldstein	City College of New York Yale Law School	1970	1975
12		Harry Hillel Wellington	University of Pennsylvania Harvard Law School	1975	1985
13		Guido Calabresi	Yale University	1985	1994
14		Anthony Kronman	Williams College Yale University	1994	2004
15		Harold Hongju Koh	Harvard University	2004	2009
16		Robert C. Post	Harvard University Yale Law School	2009	2017
17		Heather K. Gerken	Princeton University University of Michigan	2017	present

References

1. "Yale Law School | History of YLS". 2010-06-09. Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2022-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
2. "Yale Law School | Deans of the Law School". 2010-06-13. Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2022-09-05.

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