Kate Stith, a member of the Law School faculty since 1985, has been appointed the Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law by vote of the Yale Corporation.
From 1985 to 1990, she was associate professor of law; from 1990 onward she served as professor of law until her appointment to the Foster chair, which was established in 1903 by a bequest of Lafayette Sabine Foster, a former member of the U.S. Senate and a Connecticut judge and newspaper editor.
An expert in criminal law, Congress and constitutional separation of powers, Stith is the principal author of "Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts," to be published later this year by the University of Chicago Press. She has also published articles in various books and scholarly journals, in addition to lecturing on subjects ranging from university governance, to the federal independent counsel law, to the O.J. Simpson case.
At the Law School, Stith teaches courses on criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and Congress.
Prior to coming to Yale, she was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1981 to 1984, where she prosecuted white collar and organized crime cases. From 1980 to 1981 she was special assistant to the assistant U.S. attorney general for the criminal division of the Department of Justice.
Prior to her work with the Justice De-partment, Stith was a staff economist with the Council of Economic Advisers during the Carter administration.
Stith received a B.A. in 1973 from Dartmouth College (where she currently serves as a charter trustee), with highest distinction in economics. In 1977, she received a Master of Public Policy degree and a J.D. from Harvard University, where she was articles editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Following her graduation from Harvard, she served as a law clerk to Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., and then as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White.
Since 1995, Stith has served by appointment of the chief justice of the United States as a member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. In 1997, she was appointed by the National Research Council to its Committee on Law and Justice.
Stith is vice president of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and is a trustee of the Federal Bar Foundation.She is also a director of the Women's Campaign School at Yale, a past member of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women for the State of Connecticut and a member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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