Yale Law School has secured its position as the leading intellectual center for the study of law, economics, and organization thanks to its world class faculty. In addition to scholarly excellence, Yale faculty have always played prominent public roles. Yale Law School teachers have held important roles in all major American policy moments of the past century. Roosevelt's New Deal involved many faculty (such as Jerome Frank and Thurman Arnold) in its construction and engaged them in the active making of policy. Eugene Rostow, Alexander Bickel, and many others either held positions in government or served as informal but close advisers to policymakers during the civil rights and Vietnam war eras.
Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of eighteen books that have had a broad influence in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. His major works include Social Justice in the Liberal State and his multivolume constitutional history, We the People.
Ian Ayres
Ian Ayres is a lawyer and an economist. He is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor at Yale Law School and a Professor at Yale's School of Management.
Guido Calabresi
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law
Judge Calabresi was appointed United States Circuit Judge in July 1994, and entered into duty on September 16, 1994. Prior to his appointment, he was Dean and Sterling Professor at Yale Law School, where he began teaching in 1959, and is now Sterling Professor Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer in Law.
Robert Ellickson
Robert C. Ellickson is the Walter E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Property and Urban Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law. He formerly was a member of the law faculties at USC and Stanford. His major research interests are property, land use, housing, local government, urban history, and social norms.
Michael Graetz
Michael J. Graetz is the Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law and the Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law at Columbia Law School. He is also the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law Emeritus and Professional Lecturer, Yale Law School. Before coming to Columbia in 2009, he was the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law at Yale University, where he had taught since 1983.
Henry Hansmann
Henry Hansmann is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer at Yale Law School. He received both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
Christine Jolls
Christine Jolls is the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor, a chair previously held by Nobel Laureate Oliver Williamson. She is also the Director of the Law and Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Alvin Klevorick
Alvin Klevorick is the John Thomas Smith Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at Yale Law School. His subject areas are antitrust and economic regulation, law and economics, torts, market organization, and economic theory.
Zachary Liscow
Zachary Liscow is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His main research interest is understanding the appropriate policy levers to address income inequality and, in particular, the role that tax policy versus other legal rules should play.
Yair Listokin
Yair Listokin is the Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His scholarship examines problems in tax law, corporate law, contract law, and bankruptcy law from both empirical and theoretical perspectives.
Jonathan Macey
Jonathan R. Macey is the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale University, and Professor in the Yale School of Management. Professor Macey is the author of several books including the two-volume treatise, Macey on Corporation Laws, and co-author of two leading casebooks, Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies and Banking Law and Regulation.
Daniel Markovits
Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics.
Jerry Mashaw
Jerry L. Mashaw is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where he teaches courses on administrative law, social welfare policy, regulation, legislation, and the design of public institutions. He formerly taught at Tulane University and the University of Virginia.
John D. Morley
John Morley is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the law and economics of organization, with a special emphasis on the regulation and structure of investment funds.
Nicholas R. Parrillo
Nicholas R. Parrillo is a William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale, with a secondary appointment as Professor of History. He teaches administrative law, legislation, remedies, and American legal history, as well as seminars on public management and privatization.
George Priest
George L. Priest is the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics and Kauffman Distinguished Research Scholar in Law, Economics, and Entrepreneurship at Yale Law School. An internationally recognized expert, Professor Priest has focused his research over the past two decades on antitrust, the operation of private and public insurance, and the role of the legal system in promoting economic growth.
Roberta Romano
Roberta Romano is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School and director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Her research has focused on state competition for corporate charters, the political economy of takeover regulation, shareholder litigation, institutional investor activism in corporate governance, and the regulation of securities markets and financial instruments and institutions.
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Susan Rose-Ackerman is the Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) with joint appointments between Yale Law School and the Yale Department of Political Science. She has taught and written widely on corruption, law and development, administrative law, law and regulatory policy, the nonprofit sector, and federalism.
Sarath Sanga
Professor of Law
Sarath Sanga is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on corporate law and contract theory. His work has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Law & Economics, and Science.
Natasha Sarin
Natasha Sarin is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School with a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management in the Finance Department. Previously, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and later as a Counselor to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at the United States Treasury Department, where her work focused on narrowing the gap between the taxes owed by the American public and those collected by the Internal Revenue Service.
Alan Schwartz
Alan Schwartz is a Sterling Professor at Yale University. His appointments are in the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management.