Bloomberg Law
Feb. 21, 2017, 11:39 PM UTC

Yale Law School Names First Female Dean

Casey Sullivan

Yale Law School professor Heather Gerken has been selected as the school’s next dean, it announced on Tuesday.

Gerken, one of the country’s leading experts on constitutional and election law, will be the school’s first female dean, Yale said in an announcement.

Gerken shared the news Tuesday in a Twitter post...

https://twitter.com/GerkenHeather/status/834129650028777472

... while New York Times reporter Adam Liptak (who graduated Yale Law School in 1988) shared some Gerken love...

https://twitter.com/adamliptak/status/834147007707095040

... and Karen Sloan of The National Law Journal reported that law professors described Gerken as “thoughtful” and a “serious intellectual.”

Gerken, 48, assumes the role as ...

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