Heather Kristin Gerken (b.1969) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 2000 to 2006. She was an Assistant Professor of Law 2000-2005; and Professor of Law 2005-2006.
Research: Constitutional law, civil procedure, election law, law of democracy, federalism.
Education: Princeton University A.B. 1991; University of Michigan Law School J.D. 1994.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System is Failing and How to Fix It” (2009); “Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy” (co-editor, 2011).
Noteworthy Appointments: Dean, Yale Law School, appointed 2017; Co-Founder and Adviser, San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project, Yale Law School.