Robert Post (law professor)

Robert Post

Born	New York City
Nationality	American
Fields	Constitutional law
Institutions	Yale Law School
Alma mater	Harvard University Yale Law School

Robert C. Post is the current dean (since 2009)^[1] and a professor of law at Yale Law School.^[2]

Post earned his law degree from Yale in 1977 and then clerked for D.C. Circuit Judge David Bazelon and Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Post subsequently earned a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard University, worked briefly in private practice, and started his career in law teaching at Berkeley Law in 1983. Post moved from Berkeley to Yale in 2003 and succeeded Harold Koh as Dean when Koh was appointed to serve as Legal Adviser to the U.S. State Department. Post has been quoted in the New York Times on the composition of the Supreme Court.^[3]

References

^ Ashby Jones (June 22, 2009). "Robert C. Post Named Yale Law’s New Dean". Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/06/22/robert-c-post-named-yale-laws-new-dean/. Retrieved 2011-02-08. "It’s been rumored for a few weeks that Yale law professor Robert Post would get the nod to replace Harold Koh as dean of the law school after Koh was tapped to become a lawyer for the State Department."
^ SHERYL GAY STOLBERG (May 25, 2010). "At Harvard, Kagan Aimed Sights Higher". The New York Times: Politics. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/us/politics/26kagan.html?pagewanted=2. Retrieved 2011-02-08. "While Mr. Summers interviewed other candidates, including Robert C. Post, now the dean of the Yale Law School,"
^ LINDA GREENHOUSE (September 4, 2005). "William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Is Dead at 80". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/politics/04rehnquist.html. Retrieved 2011-02-08. ""Rehnquist is the opposite of Scalia," Professor Robert C. Post of the Yale Law School said in an interview."

Academic offices
Preceded by Kate Stith (Acting)	Dean of Yale Law School 2009 - present	Succeeded by incumbent