NEW YORK — The Ford Foundation has settled on its next leader. Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken will succeed Darren Walker as the president of one of the largest U.S. charitable organizations ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Ford Foundation has settled on its next leader. Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken will succeed Darren Walker as the president of one of the largest U.S. charitable ...

“Heather Gerken brings a wealth of experience working across the philanthropic and legal sectors that will only help sharpen the Ford Foundation’s operations and grantmaking,” the ...

The Chairman of the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation, Francisco Cigarroa, has announced that Heather Gerken will ...

Gerken will head up the No. 1-ranked law school through 2027 She became Yale Law's first female dean in 2017 (Reuters) - Yale University said Wednesday that it has reappointed Heather Gerken to ...

Heather Gerken has been appointed for a second term as dean of Yale Law School, University President Peter Salovey announced last week. Gerken has served as Dean for the past five years and is set to ...

Darren Walker needed to be convinced of his new book's relevance. The outgoing Ford Foundation president feared that “The ...

Gerken said the idea for the Hurst Horizon Scholarship began in 2016 during a conversation between students. ... Yale Law Dean Heather Gerken talks with Rakim H. D. Brooks in 2019 at Yale's Alumni ...

This week's Ahead of the Curve looks at a new essay from Yale Law School dean Heather Gerken on why the debate between theory and practice in legal education is misguided, and how to marry the two.

Professor Heather Gerken was recently selected to be the next dean of Yale Law School. She will be the first woman to lead the nation’s highest-ranked law school.

A charismatic, progressive young Yale law professor named Heather Gerken has a bold new vision for improving democracy: make politics local and competitive, or what she calls “federalism all the ...