Heather K. Gerken
| Heather K. Gerken | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 19, 1969 Bolton, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Constitutional law |
| Institutions | Yale Law School |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University University of Michigan School of Law |
| Known for | Election law scholar |
Heather K. Gerken (born February 19, 1969) is the Dean and the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches Election Law and runs the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project.
Gerken grew up in Bolton, Massachusetts. In 1991, Gerken was graduated with an A.B. degree from Princeton University, summa cum laude. In 1994, she was graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review.
She clerked for Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1995 Term.
She was an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., from December 1996 to July 2000.
From July 2000 to June 2006, she was a professor at Harvard Law School, where she was also a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Profession from September 2003 to July 2004.
In 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
...
Wikipedia