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.
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