Professor Heather Gerken

Professor Gerken graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1991, and she graduated from the University of Michigan Law School summa cum laude in 1994.  She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Following her clerkship, Professor Gerken practiced law in Washington, D.C., before becoming a professor at Harvard Law School in 2000.  She joined the faculty at Yale Law School in 2006, where she specializes in election law, constitutional law, and civil procedure.  Professor Gerken is considered one of the leading experts on voting rights and election law, and she has written extensively in these areas. She has been published in numerous journals including the Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal.  Her current work addresses federalism and second-order diversity, reform, and dissent.