Resident Faculty Quick Guide

Steve Walt
Steven D. Walt
Contracts, sales/commercial paper, legal philosophy, bankruptcy and secured transactions
  • Ph.D. and M.A. in philosophy, University of Chicago
  • Has received several academic awards, including a Whiting National Fellowship in the Humanities
  • Co-author of two popular casebooks, "Secured Transactions in Personal Property" and "Payments and Credits"
Xiao Wang
Xiao Wang
Appellate litigation, federal courts
  • Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
  • Founder and organizer of National Appellate Clinic Network and En Banc Institute
  • Clerked for Judge Karen N. Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Lucy H. Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Research centers on interplay between U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts, with particular focus on judicial organization and First Amendment issues
Sarah Stewart Ware
Sarah Stewart Ware
Legal research and writing
  • Served as an assistant corporation counsel in the New York City Law Department’s Affirmative Litigation Division, which brings lawsuits on behalf of the city as plaintiff.
  • Stewart prepares first-year law students for the culmination of their Legal Research and Writing course: arguing a mock courtroom case. (Video)
Ted White
G. Edward White
Legal history, constitutional law, torts
  • Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren
  • White's 17 published books have won numerous honors and awards, including the final listing for the Pulitzer Prize in history.
  • Former fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and twice a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a fellow of the Society of American Historians, and a member of the American Law Institute.
Ann Woolhandler
Federal court system and civil procedure
  • Worked for a decade as a civil rights lawyer in Louisiana
  • Scholarly interests involve key doctrinal features of the law of federal courts
Ethan Yale
Ethan Yale
Tax policy, tax shelters, federal taxation
  • Clerked for Judge Jacques L. Wiener Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Research and teaching emphasizes the taxation of business entities and complex transactions
  • Received the Law School’s Carl McFarland Prize for outstanding research (Story)
  • Selected to present at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum