 | Anthony T. Kronman |
Anthony T. Kronman, newly named as Sterling Professor of Law, is dean of the Law School and a noted legal theorist and philosopher.
Appointment as a Sterling Professor is considered the highest faculty honor.
Named the Law School's 14th dean in 1994, he became the first in that position to hold a degree in a discipline besides law. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at Yale in 1972 and his J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1975. He was appointed to a second term as dean in 1999.
Kronman's teaching areas include contracts, bankruptcy, commercial law, jurisprudence and social theory, and the legal profession. He is the author, co-author or editor of four books, including the newly released Yale University Press book "History of the Yale Law School: The Tercentennial Lectures," which he edited. His previous book, "The Lost Lawyer," deals with the contemporary state of the American legal profession and analyzes the movement away from what he calls the "lawyer-statesman" ideal of responsible law practice. Kronman's other books are "Cases and Materials on Contract Law" (with F. Kessler and G. Gilmore), "Max Weber" and "The Economics of Contract Law" (with R. Posner).
The Yale dean has also written numerous articles on a variety of scholarly subjects, including judicial and legal ethics, legal history, philosophy and legal scholarship.
A 1963 graduate of Williams College, Kronman was a Danforth Fellow during his four years as a Yale graduate student. While a student at the law school, he served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He taught at the University of Minnesota Law School and the University of Chicago Law School before returning to Yale in 1978 as a visiting associate professor of law. He was named a professor a year later and was appointed the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law in 1985.
In 2001, as part of a celebration of the 300th anniversary of Yale's founding in 1701, Kronman organized a series of Tercentennial DeVane Lectures on the subject "Democratic Vistas," which examined the heritage, present condition and prospects of America's ever-evolving "democratic experiment." Kronman also presented the first lecture in the series, on the topic "The Democratic Soul."
Kronman serves on the board of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale and is vice president of the Yale University Press Board of Governors. He is chair of the board of Legal Affairs Magazine and a member of the Tel Aviv University Law School Faculty International Board of Trustees.
A member of the Council of Foreign Relations since 1998, Kronman is also a member of the American Society for Legal History and the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Connecticut Bar Foundation. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.
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