Robert Post (law professor)

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Robert Charles Post
Born (1947-10-17) October 17, 1947 (age 76)
New York City
Nationality American
Fields Constitutional law
Institutions Yale Law School
Alma mater Harvard College
Yale Law School

Robert Charles Post (born October 17, 1947 in Brooklyn, NY) is dean (since 2009)[1] and a professor of law at Yale Law School.[2]

Post received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1969 and earned his law degree from Yale in 1977. While at Yale, he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He then clerked for D.C. Circuit Judge David Bazelon and Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. 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 to the U.S. State Department. Post has been quoted in the New York Times on the composition of the Supreme Court.[3]

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.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Kate Stith (Acting)
Dean of Yale Law School
2009 - present
Succeeded by
incumbent