School Notes: Yale Law School
September/October 2011

New Faculty at YLS

Three alumni recently joined the faculty at the Law School. Anne Alstott ’87JD, who taught at YLS from 1997 to 2008 and served as deputy dean in 2002 and 2004, returns as a professor of law specializing in taxation and social policy. She previously taught law at Harvard and Columbia and twice won the Yale Law Women teaching award. James Forman Jr. ’92JD comes to YLS as a clinical professor of law. He teaches and writes in the areas of criminal procedure and education law. He previously worked for the Public Defender Service in Washington, DC. And David Singh Grewal ’02JD joins as an associate professor of law, focusing on international trade law, intellectual property law and biotechnology, and law and economics. He was a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and received his PhD from Harvard in 2010.

Two Receive Endowed Professorships

Roberta Romano ’80JD has been named a Sterling Professor of Law, one of the university’s highest faculty honors. She is the first woman at the Law School to receive this honor. Romano joined the YLS faculty in 1985 and since 2005 has been director of the school’s Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Henry Hansmann ’74JD, ’78PhD, has been named the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law. Hansmann joined the YLS faculty in 1983. He left in 2003 to teach at NYU and returned to Yale in 2004. His scholarship has focused principally on the law and economics of organizational ownership and design.

Law School Mourns Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus Charles Elias (“Eli”) Clark ’43, ’47LLB, a beloved member of both the university and Law School communities, died on June 11 at age 89. A specialist in the field of law pertaining to the transfer of family wealth, Clark was the Lafayette S. Foster Professor Emeritus of Law, a longtime master of Silliman College, and a World War II veteran. A member of the YLS faculty since 1949, he was known for his storytelling, lecturing style, and wry sense of humor, and his estates course remained immensely popular for more than 40 years. He retired in 2004 after more than 55 years of service.