Robert Charles Post (born October 17, 1947) is an American legal scholar who is currently a professor of law at
Yale Law School where he served as the
Dean of Yale Law School from 2009 to 2017.
Biography
Post received his
Bachelor of Arts from
Harvard University in 1969 and earned his
Juris Doctor
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from
Yale Law School in 1977. While at Yale, he served as an editor of the ''Yale Law Journal''. He then clerked for
D.C. Circuit Judge
David L. Bazelon
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Education and career
Bazelon was born in Superior, Wisconsin, the son of ...
and
Supreme Court
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Justice
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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Post subsequently earned a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard University, worked briefly in private practice, and started his career in law teaching at Berkeley Law in 1983. Post moved from Berkeley to Yale in 2003 and succeeded
Harold Koh as Dean when Koh was appointed to serve as
Legal Adviser
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to the U.S. State Department. Post has been quoted in the ''New York Times'' on the composition of the Supreme Court.
He was elected to the
American Philosophical Society in 2011.
Post's academic interests include
constitutional law,
First Amendment,
legal history, and
affirmative action. His ''Citizens Divided'' (2014) looks at the constitutional aspects of
electoral finance.
See also
*
List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 3)
References
External links
Robert Poston Yale Law School's website
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American lawyers
American legal scholars
American legal writers
Jewish American attorneys
Harvard University alumni
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Deans of Yale Law School
Yale Law School alumni
Yale Law School faculty
First Amendment scholars
Legal historians
American scholars of constitutional law
1947 births
Living people
Yale Sterling Professors
Members of the American Philosophical Society