Yale Law dean Heather Gerken has been announced as the Ford Foundation's new president effective November, reported Reuters.

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

The New York-based Ford Foundation, a significant funder in Detroit, has named Heather Gerken, dean of Yale Law School, as ...

Heather Gerken will be the 11th president of the Ford Foundation, chair of the board of trustees Francisco Cigarroa announced ...

Students and faculty praised the Yale Law School dean’s responses to challenges and controversies and reflected on her ...

“Few things make me prouder than our veterans program,” said Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken in her opening remarks to the panel event. University spotlights leadership, service At the University ...

While Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken was not a signatory on the Yale Law faculty letter, she did, however, issue a separate message the same day the letter was released, addressing the ...

On April 4, around 66 percent of Yale Law School’s active faculty signed a letter denouncing President Trump’s attacks on law firms and on international student speech. That same day, Yale Law School ...

Though the conference was specifically in honor of the new Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech and the 50th anniversary of the Woodward Report, Gerken highlighted that free speech has been of ...

The conference began with a brief introduction from conference coordinators, Brian Zhang ’25 and Sabrina Guo ’27, and, via video, guest of honor Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken. Gerken’s message ...