Sterling Professor
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Sterling Professor, the highest academic rank at Yale University, is awarded to a tenured faculty member considered the best in their field. It is akin to the rank of distinguished professor at other
John W. Sterling, namesake of the title
Yale Harkness Tower
Akhil Reed Amar
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Akhil Reed Amar is an American legal scholar who is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. He has written on a wide range of constitutional topics, including voting rights
Sterling Professor
…Bruce Ackerman Law and Political Science 1987 Political philosophy; constitutional law Rolena Adorno Spanish 2012 Colonial Latin American Literature Akhil Amar Law and Political Science 2008 Constitutional law Elijah Anderson Sociology 2018 Urban ethnography, cultural theory Harold Attridge Divinity 2012 New…
Amar in 2014
Amar speaks with Justice Clarence Thomas (left) at the National Archives in 2012