List of Yale Law School alumni
This is a list of the graduates of Yale Law School. For a list of graduates of Yale University as a whole, see List of Yale University people.
U.S. Government
Executive branch
U. S. Presidents
- Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), 42nd U.S. President (1993-2001)
- Gerald Ford (LL.B. 1941), 38th U.S. President (1974-1976)
Cabinet members
Attorneys General
Judicial branch
U.S. Supreme Court justices
- Samuel Alito (J.D. 1975), Associate Justice (2006-present)
- David Davis (LL.B. 1835), Associate Justice (1862-1877)
- Abe Fortas (LL.B. 1933), Associate Justice (1963-1969)
- Sherman Minton (LL.M. 1916), Associate Justice (1949-1956)
- George Shiras, Jr. (LL.B. 1853), Associate Justice (1892-1903)
- Sonia Sotomayor (J.D. 1979), Associate Justice (2009-present)
- Potter Stewart (LL.B. 1941), Associate Justice (1958-1981)
- Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974), Associate Justice (1991-present)
- Byron White (LL.B. 1946), Associate Justice (1962-1993)
Other judges
- Jane Bolin, (LL.B. 1931) First African-American woman to graduate from Yale and the first African-American woman to become a judge (1939)
- Guido Calabresi, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former dean of Yale Law School
- Robert Katzmann, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Brett Kavanaugh (J.D. 1990), Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Michael Ponsor, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- Stephen Reinhardt (LL.B. 1954), Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Richard Sullivan (J.D. 1990), Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Legislative branch
U. S. Diplomats
State government
City government
Other U.S. political figures
Non-U.S. Government
Academia
University presidents
- Nancy Y. Bekavac (J.D. 1973), president of Scripps College
- Ronald J. Daniels (LL.M. 1988), president of Johns Hopkins University
- Robert Hutchins (LL.B. 1925), former president of the University of Chicago
- Marvin Krislov (J.D. 1988), president of Oberlin College
- Russell K. Osgood (J.D. 1974), president of Grinnell College
- Geoffrey B. Shields (J.D. 1972), president and dean of Vermont Law School
- Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, former president of George Washington University
- Joseph S. Iseman, (LL.B., 1941), acting president of Bennington College, longtime partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Legal academics
- Kenneth Abraham (J.D. 1971), torts and insurance expert at University of Virginia School of Law
- Bruce Ackerman (LL.B. 1967), constitutional law expert and Sterling Professor at Yale Law
- T. Alexander Aleinikoff (J.D. 1977), immigration law specialist and Dean of Georgetown Law
- Ian Ayres (J.D. 1986), professor of law and management at Yale
- Peter Berkowitz, law and political science professor at George Mason University
- George Bermann (J.D. 1971), European law scholar at Columbia Law
- Philip Bobbitt (J.D. 1975), scholar of constitutional law and military strategy
- Rosa Brooks, foreign policy and national security scholar at Georgetown Law; columnist for the Los Angeles Times
- Stephen L. Carter, Yale Law professor and novelist
- Arthur Linton Corbin (J.D. 1899), Yale law professor and contracts scholar
- Alan Dershowitz (J.D. 1962), Harvard Law criminal law professor and author
- Jan Deutsch, professor of law and philosophy at Yale
- David K. Dewolf (J.D. 1979), torts professor and scholar at Gonzaga University School of Law
- Elizabeth F. Emens (J.D. 2002), professor at Columbia Law
- Richard Epstein (LL.B. 1968), libertarian law professor at the University of Chicago
- Noah Feldman (J.D. 1997), scholar of Islamic law, international constitutional law, and the intersection of law and religion
- Nicole S. Garnett (J.D.), professor of law at the University of Notre Dame
- Richard W. Garnett (J.D.), professor of law at the University of Notre Dame
- Jack Goldsmith (J.D. 1989), professor at Harvard Law and former Assistant Attorney General
- Lani Guinier, first tenured black female professor at Harvard Law
- Clarence Halbert (LL.B. 1897), co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law
- Paul W. Kahn (J.D. 1980), professor of law and humanities at Yale
- Duncan Kennedy (LL.B. 1970), Critical Legal Studies scholar at Harvard Law
- Randall Kennedy, professor of race and law at Harvard Law
- Kris Kobach (J.D. 1995), professor of law at the University of Missouri?Kansas City and chairman of the Kansas Republican Party
- Andrew Koppelman, professor of law and political science at Northwestern University
- Michael I. Krauss, professor at George Mason University School of Law
- Anthony T. Kronman (J.D. 1975), Sterling Professor of law at Yale and former dean of Yale Law
- Ethan Leib, professor of law at UC Hastings
- Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford University
- Saul Levmore (J.D. 1980), dean of the University of Chicago Law School
- Karl N. Llewellyn, scholar of legal realism
- Catharine MacKinnon (J.D. 1977), feminist activist and professor at Michigan Law
- Paul Mahoney, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law
- Martha Minow (J.D. 1979), dean of Harvard Law school
- Eben Moglen, professor of legal history at Columbia Law and software freedom activist
- Thomas Morawetz (J.D. 1968), professor of law and ethics at UConn Law
- Wesley Oliver (LL.M.), Widener University School of Law professor
- Mark W. Osler (J.D. 1990), professor of law at Baylor Law School
- H. Jefferson Powell, joint law and divinity professor at Duke University
- Jedediah Purdy, professor of law at Duke University
- Charles A. Reich (LL.B. 1952), author of the pro-counterculture tract The Greening of America
- Richard Revesz, dean of NYU Law
- Glenn Reynolds, blogger, professor of law at the University of Tennessee
- Deborah Rhode, professor, Stanford University Law School
- Fred Rodell, critic of the legal profession and legal academia
- Joel Rogers, professor of law, political science, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin?Madison
- Kermit Roosevelt III (J.D. 1997), constitutional law expert at Penn Law, descendant of Theodore Roosevelt
- David Schizer, dean of Columbia Law
- Bruce Smith, dean of the University of Illinois College of Law
- Reva Siegel (J.D. 1986), constitutional law and anti-discrimination law expert, Yale Law School
- Matt A. Vega (J.D. 1993), associate professor of law at Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
- Mark S. Weiner, professor of law at Rutgers
- Charles Alan Wright (LL.B. 1949), professor at University of Texas; expert on Federal Courts and Federal Procedure; represented Richard Nixon
- Maureen O'Rourke (J.D. 1990), professor and dean of Boston University School of Law
- John Yoo (J.D. 1992), legal scholar at Boalt Hall
- Kenji Yoshino (J.D. 1996), Yale Law professor and dean of intellectual life
Other academics
Activists and Human Rights figures
- Lisa Bloom, feminist and children's rights lawyer; Court TV host
- Marian Wright Edelman (J.D.), founder of Children's Defense Fund
- Henry A. Freedman (J.D.), social justice advocate
- Robert Gnaizda, public interest advocate
- Michael Harrington, socialist writer and activist
- Van Jones, (J.D. 1993) green jobs advocate and former Special Advisor to the White House
- Neal Katyal (J.D. 1995), lead counsel in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
- Creighton Miller, a founder of the National Football League Players Association labor union
- Henry T. King, Jr., (LL.B 1943), Nuremberg prosecutor 1946-1947
- James Speth (1969), environmental lawyer and activist, and founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute
- Gregory Stanton, founded Genocide Watch
- Hernando Valencia Villa (LL.M. 1981, J.S.D. 1986), Colombian human rights activist, scholar and co-founder of the Colombian Commission of Jurists
- Alfred Webre (J.D. 1967), advocate against weapons in space
Journalism
- Michael Barone (J.D. 1969), political analyst
- Emily Bazelon (J.D. 2000), senior editor of Slate Magazine
- Nelson Antonio Denis (J.D. 1980), Editorial Director of El Diario La Prensa
- Jeff Greenfield (LL.B. 1967), television political analyst
- Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times
- David Lat, founder of prominent legal gossip blogs "Underneath Their Robes" and "Above the Law"
- Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times
- Victor Navasky (LL.B. 1959), editor of The Nation and The New York Times Magazine, professor at Columbia Journalism School
- Charlie Savage (2003), Boston Globe reporter
Literature
Other
- T. Bill Andrews, abstract impressionist painter, author of Power Ties
- Jeff Ballabon, Orthodox Jewish lobbyist and founder of Coordinating Council on Jerusalem
- Kathleen Neal Cleaver, figure in the Black Panther Party
- Ben Kerschberg (J.D. 1998), memoirist
- Charlie Korsmo (J.D. 2006), former child actor
- Yul Kwon, winner of Survivor: Cook Islands
- Arthur Frommer, publisher of the Frommer's budget travel guide series
- Walter Lord, freelance historian
- Larry Lucchino, President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox
- Arthur Mag, legal counsel to Harry S. Truman
- Jesselyn Radack (J.D. 1995), American Taliban whistleblower
- Ed Redlich, television writer and producer
- Pat Robertson (LL.B. 1955), televangelist and founder of Regent University
- Brad Snyder (J.D. 1999), author of books on baseball
- Ben Stein (J.D. 1970), actor and speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, graduated as class valedictorian
- Ken Stern, CEO of National Public Radio
- Alfred Terry, Union army general in the American Civil War and military commander of the Dakota Territory
- Fay Vincent (LL.B. 1963), commissioner of Major League Baseball
- Tim and Nina Zagat, founders of the Zagat Surveys
Attended but did not graduate
Fictitious alumni
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