Yale Law School
| Web Address: | https://law.yale.edu/ |
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| Phone Number: | 203.432.1660 |
| Address: | 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06520-8215 |
Current Dean
| Yair Listokin (Interim) | 2025-08-01 to Current |
Previous Deans (populated by deans in the database)
| Heather Gerken | 2017-07-01 to 2025-07-31 |
| Robert C. Post | 2009-07-01 to 2017-07-01 |
Deans Who Attended Yale Law School
| Name | Degree |
Year of Graduation |
| Bruce P. Smith | J.D. | 1992 |
| Robert Schapiro | J.D. | 1990 |
| Nicholas Allard | J.D. | 1979 |
| Ronald Weich | J.D. | 1983 |
| J. Rich Leonard | J.D. | 1976 |
| Mark Alexander | J.D. | 1992 |
| Marcilynn A. Burke | J.D. | |
| James R. Hackney | J.D. | 1989 |
| Robert B. Ahdieh | J.D. | 1997 |
| Linda Keller | J.D. | |
| Renée Hutchins Laurent | J.D. | 1993 |
| Stephen Payne | J.D. | 1996 |
| Daniel Tokaji | J.D. | 1994 |
| Kenneth C. Randall | LL.M. | |
| Johanna Kalb | J.D. | |
| Sophia Z. Lee | J.D. | 2006 |
| Rebecca Zietlow | J.D. | 1990 |
| Jamelle Sharpe | J.D. | 2003 |
| Joseph Landau | J.D. | 2002 |
| Geoffrey Rapp | JD | 2001 |
| Yair Listokin | J.D. | 2005 |
| Andrew Hessick | JD | 2002 |
| Kenneth Stahl | JD | 2000 |
Previous Deans
(information provided by Yale Law School)
| Name | Tenure as Dean |
| Harold Kongju Koh | 2004 - 2009 |
| Anthony Townsend Kronman | 1994 - 2004 |
| Guido Calabresi | 1985 - 1994 |
| Harry Hillel Wellington * | 1975 - 1985 |
| Abraham Samuel Goldstein * | 1970 - 1975 |
| Louis Heilprin Pollak * | 1965 - 1970 |
| Eugene Victor Rostow * | 1955 - 1965 |
| Harry Shulman * | 1954 - 1955 |
| Wesley Alba Sturges * | 1946 - 1954 |
| Ashbel Green Guliver * | 1940 - 1946 |
| Charles Edward Clark * | 1929 - 1939 |
| Robert Maynard Hutchins * | 1927 - 1927 |
| Thomas Walter Swan * | 1916 - 1927 |
| Henry Wade Rogers * | 1903 - 1916 |
| Francis Wayland III * | 1873 - 1903 |
* Deceased