School Notes: Yale Law School
July/August 2017

Outgoing dean named Sterling Professor

Robert C. Post ’77JD has been named Sterling Professor of Law. Post was dean of Yale Law School from 2009 to July 1, 2017. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2003, he taught law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law for 20 years. He began his legal career as a law clerk for Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Court and served in the same role for Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the US Supreme Court. Post focuses his research on constitutional law, the First Amendment, legal history, and constitutional theory.

Fellowship honors two professors

With the support of over 100 donors, including more than 80 former Liman Fellows, Yale Law School created a Resnik-Curtis Liman Public Interest Law Fellowship for 2018–19. It honors Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law and the founding director of the Liman Program (now Center), and Dennis E. Curtis ’66LLB, clinical professor emeritus who pioneered clinical legal education by establishing Yale Law School’s first clinic. The fellowship will be awarded to a Law School graduate who proposes a project related to incarceration and criminal justice reform. The hope is that resources will grow to enable the fellowship to continue. The Liman Center was founded in 1997 to honor Arthur Liman for exemplifying the ideal of serving the public interest when working in private practice. The Resnik-Curtis fellowship will help further the goal of working to reform the criminal justice system and deal with the many issues surrounding incarcerated populations.