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"It is to the alumni of the future, not of the past that the Journal appeals most strongly. . . .[I]t is certain that we often appreciate too little and and lose too quickly our connection and interests in these institutions of learning as we go out from them." - William P. Aiken, Chairman, Vol. 1 (1891)

Alumni Information
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Selected Alumni of The Yale Law Journal
Editors who served during the nearly 120 years of The Yale Law Journal have gone on to careers in every conceivable field, from setting milestones on the Supreme Court and at the helms of virtually all of the nation's leading law schools, to the public spheres of the United States Senate and reality television.  The following are only a selection of the Journal's ever-growing alumni ranks.

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JUDICIARY
       
Sonia M. Sotomayor U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
(Editor, '79)  
Samuel A. Alito U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
(Editor, '75)  
Potter Stewart U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
(Comment Editor, '41)  
Abe Fortas U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
(Editor-in-Chief, '33)  
Brett M. Kavanaugh U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit

(Notes Editing Editor, '90)

 
Robert A. Katzmann
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
(Article & Book Review Editor, '80)
 
Guido Calabresi
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
(Note Editor, '58)
 
Jon O. Newman U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit (Note and Comment Editor, '56)  
Patricia M. Wald U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit;
Int'l Crim. Trib. (Former Yugoslavia)
(Editor, '51)  
       
         
GOVERNMENT        
Neil Kumar Katyal
Principal Deputy U.S. Solicitor General
(Symposium Editor, '95)
 
Alex M. Azar II Deputy Secretary & General Counsel,
U.S. Dep't of Health and Human Services 
(Executive Committee, '90)  
Beth S. Brinkmann Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
U.S. Dep't of Justice
(Note Editor, '80)  
Seth P. Waxman U.S. Solicitor General (Managing Editor, '77)  
John R. Bolton II
Permanent Representative to the United Nations
(Editor, '74)
 
Reed E. Hundt Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
(Book Review Editor, '74)  
Michael B. Mukasey U.S. Attorney General (Editor, '67)  
Walter E. Dellinger III Acting U.S. Solicitor General (Editor, '66)  
Norbert Schlei
Assistant Attorney General &
Chief, Office of General Counsel, Dep't of Justice
(Editor-in-Chief, '56)  
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach U.S. Attorney General (Article Editor, '47)  
Robert E. Cooper, Jr. Attorney General of TN  (Managing Editor, '83)   
Richard Blumenthal Attorney General of CT (Editor-in-Chief, '73)  
Michael F. Bennet
U.S. Senator (D-Colorado) (Editor-in-Chief, '93)  
Arlen Specter
U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania) (Editor, '56)  
Raymond E. Baldwin
U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut) (Book Review Editor, '21)  
Leonard Horwin Mayor, Beverly Hills, CA   (Editor-in-Chief, '36)  
         
LAW SCHOOL DEANS
       
In Service as of 2009      
Michelle J. Anderson
City University of New York Law School
(Notes Editor, '94)
 
David M. Schizer Columbia Law School
(Executive Editor, '93)  
Nora V. Demleitner Hofstra School of Law
(Symposium Editor, '92)  
Bruce P. Smith
University of Illinois Law School
(Senior Editor, '92)
 
Evan H. Caminker Michigan Law School
(Senior Editor, '86)  
William M. Treanor Fordham Law School (Article & Book Review Editor, '85)  
Paul G. Mahoney University of Virginia Law School (Senior Editor, '84)  
Michael H. Schill UCLA Law School (Editor, '84)
 
Davison M. Douglas William & Mary Law School
(Notes Editor, '83)  
Richard L. Revesz New York University Law School (Editor-in-Chief, '83)  
David Wippman University of Minnesota Law School (Editor-in-Chief, '82)  
Frederick M. Lawrence George Washington University Law School (Editor, '80)  
Michael A. Fitts University of Pennsylvania Law School (Editor, '79)
 
Martha L. Minow Harvard Law School
(Article & Book Review Editor, '79)  
Robert C. Post Yale Law School
(Note Editor, '77)
 
T. Alexander Aleinikoff Georgetown Law Center (Note Editor, '77)  
Joan G. Wexler Brooklyn Law School (Article Editor, '74) 
 
Aviam Soifer
University of Hawai'i Law School
(Editor, '72)
 
Leonard P. Strickman

Florida International University College of Law

(Editor, '65)
 
Former Deans
     
Anthony Kronman
Yale Law School
(Editor, '75)
 
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Columbia Law School
President of Yale University
(Note & Comment Editor, '65)
 
John Hart Ely
Stanford Law School
(Note & Comment Editor, '63)
 
Abraham S. Goldstein
Yale Law School
(Articles Editor, '49)
 
Louis H. Pollak
Yale Law School
(Editor-in-Chief, '48)
 
Eugene V. Rostow
Yale Law School
(Editor-in-Chief, '37)  
Charles E. Clark
Yale Law School
(Secretary, '13)
 
         
LEGAL ACADEMIA
       
L. Lawrence Lessig, III
Stanford Law School
(Senior Editor, '89)
 
Ian Ayres Yale Law School (Article & Book Review Editor, '86)  
Reva Siegel Yale Law School  (Editor, '85)   
Pamela S. Karlan
Stanford Law School
(Article & Book Review Editor, '84)  
Akhil R. Amar
Yale Law School
(Editor, '84)
 
Steven G. Calabresi
Northwestern University Law School & 
Co-Founder, The Federalist Society
(Note & Topics Editor, '83)  
Jonathan R. Macey Yale Law School (Article & Book Review Editor, '82)  
Roberta Romano Yale Law School (Note Editor, '80)  
William Eskridge Yale Law School

(Note Editor, '77)

 
Bruce A. Ackerman
Yale Law School
(Editor, '67)  
Alan M. Dershowitz
Harvard Law School
(Editor-in-Chief, '62)
 
Charles A. Reich Yale Law School (Editor-in-Chief, '52)  
Karl Llewellyn Columbia Law School, drafter of Uniform Commercial Code (Editor-in-Chief, '19)  
         
HIGHER EDUCATION
       
Yona A. Reiss
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
(Senior Editor, '92)  
Austin Sarat Amherst College (Senior Editor, '88)  

Russell K. Osgood

President, Grinnell College

(Articles Editor, '74)

 

Nancy Bekavac

President, Scripps College

(Book Reviews Editor, '73)
 
 



 
MEDIA, PUBLISHING,
& THE ARTS 




 
Lan Cao
Author

(Notes Editor, '87)

 
Richard Cotton
Executive VP/General Counsel, NBC Universal (Executive Editor, '69)  
Michael D. Barone Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report (Publication Editor, '69)  

Jeff Greenfield

Senior Political Correspondent, CBS News

(Note & Comment Editor, '66)

 
Langdon Van Norden Chairman, The Metropolitan Opera (Editor-in-Chief, '40)  
         
NONPROFIT        
Kenneth Roth Executive Director, Human Rights Watch    (Editor, '79)   
         
CORPORATE & FINANCE        
         
Ellen Porges Assistant General Counsel, Goldman Sachs    (Managing Editor, '82)   
Madeleine Kleiner Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Hilton Hotels Corporation    (Note & Project Editor, '76)   
Randall K.C. Kau Founder, XE Capital Management, Zurich Capital Markets   (Editor-in-Chief, '74)  
         
PRACTITIONERS        
Carla Christofferson
O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles),
Co-Owner, Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA) 
  (Note Editor, '92)  
Emmet T. Flood Williams & Connolly LLP (Washington, D.C.)    (Exec. Committee Coordinator, '91)   
Robert J. Giuffra  Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (New York)    (Articles Editor, '87)  
Lewis J. Liman Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP (New York)   (Articles Editor, '87)  
Craig M. Wasserman Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP (New York)   (Editor, '86)  
Ruth E. Harlow Linklaters LLP (New York)    (Senior Editor, '86)   
Robert A. Long Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, D.C.)   (Note Editor, '85)  
C. Cabell Chinnis Mayer Brown LLP (Palo Alto)    (Managing Editor, 84)  
Michele S. Hirshman Paul, Weiss LLP (New York)    (Articles & Book Review Editor, '83)  
Donald J. Toumey Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (New York)   (Articles & Book Review Editor, '81)   
Paul M. Smith Jenner & Block LLP (Washington, D.C.)   (Editor-in-Chief, '79)  
Sheldon S. Adler Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (New York)    (Editor, '79)   
Gandolfo (Vince) DiBlasi Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (New York)    (Editor, '78)   
David E. Kendall Williams & Connolly LLP (Washington, D.C.)   (Note & Comment Editor, '71)  
Charles M. Nathan Latham & Watkins LLP (New York, NY)    (Editor, '65)