Deans of Yale Law School
- 1873–1903 Francis Wayland III
- 1903–1916 Henry Wade Rogers
- 1916–1927 Thomas Walter Swan
- 1927–1929 Robert Maynard Hutchins
- 1929–1939 Charles Edward Clark
- 1940–1946 Ashbel Green Gulliver
- 1946–1954 Wesley Alba Sturges
- 1954–1955 Harry Shulman
- 1955–1965 Eugene Victor Rostow
- 1965–1970 Louis Heilprin Pollak
- 1970–1975 Abraham Samuel Goldstein
- 1975–1985 Harry Hillel Wellington
- 1985–1994 Guido Calabresi
- 1994–2004 Anthony Townsend Kronman
- 2004–2009 Harold Hongju Koh
- 2009–present Robert C. Post
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