This is a list of notable alumni of Yale Law School, the law school of the American Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. (For a list of notable Yale University graduates, see the list of Yale University people.) Records are kept by the Association of Yale Alumni.
All degrees listed below are LL.B. (the primary professional degree in law conferred by Yale Law School until 1971) or J.D. (the primary professional degree in law conferred since 1971), unless noted otherwise.
Yale Law's three–year J.D. (LL.B., before 1971) program enrolls an incoming class of approximately 200 students, one of the smallest incoming class sizes of all top law schools.
Academia
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 Jennifer Mnookin (1995), president of Columbia University, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and dean of UCLA School of Law 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
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 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
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,Database (undated). "Mark Osler" . University of St. Thomas School of Law. Retrieved June 28, 2015. clemency advocate, and critic of capital punishment
Civil and human rights law
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
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 Adrienne Davis, professor at Washington University in St. Louis 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 David E. Pozen (2007), professor at Columbia Law School 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