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The Ford Foundation has settled on its next leader. Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken will succeed Darren Walker as the president of one of the largest U.S. charitable organizations, the Ford ...
Harvard Law School professor and internationally renowned constitutional law scholar Richard H. Fallon Jr. died on Sunday. He ...
Ford Foundation, one of the nation's largest philanthropies, names dean of Yale Law School to head it. Here's why.
Four of the deans who started on July 1 are at a T14 law school, and three of those deans are from within their own ...
Yale's first-of-its-kind scholarship is creating new conversations about what law schools can do to diversify the legal profession.
Yale Law School’s Revolt of the Elites America’s best-known Supreme Court clerk mill is abandoning the U.S. News college rankings—and other schools are following suit. What are they playing at?
Two of the nation's top law schools are bowing out of the controversial college rankings, claiming it is detrimental to their missions.
Yale Law School and Harvard Law School both said Wednesday they will no longer participate in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of law schools, marking the biggest shakeup to the closely ...
Gerken has been the dean of the Yale Law School since 2017, and is currently serving her second term, which was scheduled to ...
This August, 25 students from various backgrounds were welcomed into the second cohort of Yale Law School’s Launchpad Scholars, a program committed to diversifying the legal field. Yakeleen Almazan ...
Law school leaders and faculties have steadily disavowed teaching the constitutional text and structure to instead promote the latest fads in diversity, equity and inclusion.
Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken will succeed Darren Walker as the president of one of the largest U.S. charitable organizations, the Ford Foundation announced Monday. A leading expert on ...