The law, enacted this year, made it a crime for unauthorized migrants to enter the state. Challengers say immigration is a ...

Four of the deans who started on July 1 are at a T14 law school, and three of those deans are from within their own ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Law at Yale became a defining ground When Usha returned to Yale for law school after earning her history degree from the university and an M.Phil. from Cambridge, she wasn’t a wide-eyed first-year.

During her tenure as dean, Gerken has focused on increasing the diversity within the law school. She launched two pipeline–to ...