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Our Faculty

Members of the Yale Law School faculty include some of the nation’s most prominent scholars in every area of law, along with leading experts in economics, philosophy, and history

Faculty Type

Tom R. Tyler

Macklin Fleming Professor Emeritus of Law, Professorial Lecturer in Law (fall term), and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory
Courses Taught
Criminal Justice Reform
Empirical Research Seminar
Social Science and Institutional Design
Topics in Law and Psychology
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Beatrice A. Walton

Visiting Lecturer in Law
Courses Taught
International Adjudication and Advanced Topics in International Law

Keith E. Whittington

David Boies Professor of Law
Courses Taught
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Originalism
Constitutional History of the Framing
Advanced Constitutional Law: Federalism and Separation of Powers
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Danny Wilf-Townsend

Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean ’70 Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Courses Taught
Procedure
Consumer Protection Seminar
Regulating Artificial Intelligence
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John Fabian Witt

Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law
Courses Taught
American Legal History
Torts
History of the Laws of War
Problems in Legal Historiography
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Today is a wonderful time to be blessed with legal training and to be able to go out and take on the enormous challenges of a difficult world — with an aspiration to lead tempered by humility at the complexity, difficulty, discipline, and self-sacrifice inherent in the task.