Ford Foundation, one of the nation's largest philanthropies, names dean of Yale Law School to head it. Here's why.

The Ford Foundation has settled on its next leader. Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken will succeed Darren Walker as the ...

Students and faculty praised the Yale Law School dean’s responses to challenges and controversies and reflected on her ...

The Lillian Goldman Law Library is expected to drain its wood-encased aquarium, which is more than two decades old, as early ...

Story Highlights Heather Gerken named new Ford Foundation president Gerken is a Yale Law dean and constitutional law expert ...

Heather Gerken, dean of the Yale University Law and former Obama advisor, is expected to focus on democracy, the rule of law, and equity.

Congratulations to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken on this new phase of her career. See this NYT story.

A graduate student with disabilities isn’t entitled to a preliminary injunction stopping Yale Law School from discharging her ...

The constitutional law scholar Heather K. Gerken will oversee the Ford Foundation, a $16bn philanthropic entity with an eye towards social justice ...

Gerken has been the dean of the Yale Law School since 2017, and is currently serving her second term, which was scheduled to ...

The dean of one of the country's leading law schools is leaving New Haven for New York to take the helm of one of the nation's leading ...