Yale Law School - Current Prominent Faculty

Current Prominent Faculty

• Bruce Ackerman, constitutional and political science scholar and op-ed writer.
• Akhil Amar, constitutional scholar, writer and consultant to the television show The West Wing.
• Ian Ayres, author of Why Not? and frequent commentator on NPR's Marketplace program.
• Jack Balkin, First Amendment scholar, legal blogger, founder and director of the Yale Information Society Project.
• Aharon Barak, former president of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1995 to 2006.
• Guido Calabresi, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former Dean, Yale Law School.
• Stephen L. Carter, author of a number of books, including the novel The Emperor of Ocean Park.
• Amy Chua, author World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.
• Jules Coleman, legal philosopher.
• Drew S. Days, III, former United States Solicitor General.
• Owen M. Fiss, liberalism and free speech scholar.
• Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer prize winning author, and New York Times correspondent covering the Supreme Court of the United States for more than 30 years.
• Dan M. Kahan, criminal law and evidence scholar, director of the Yale Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic.
• Harold Hongju Koh, Dean of the law school (2004–2009) and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the Clinton administration (1998–2001).
• John Langbein, legal historian and trust and estates scholar.
• Jonathan R. Macey, corporate/banking law scholar.
• Jed Rubenfeld, constitutional theorist and criminal law scholar.
• Kate Stith, constitutional law and criminal procedure expert.
• Ralph K. Winter, Jr., senior circuit judge and former chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
• Michael Wishnie, clinical professor, expert on immigration.