abstract:A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field. Traditionally, there are only 27 at any one time, though there are currently 40.
Senior Yale lecturers like Yale's diplomat-in-residence and eminent international security studies scholar Charles Hill, and Yale's SterlingProfessor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature and Holocaust survivor Geoffrey Hartman, served on YIISA's faculty advisory committees and participated in its activities.
Mainly because law firms reward partners for bringing in new clients instead of retaining the ones they've got, says Joyce Sterling, a professor at the University of Denver College of Law who studies gender bias in the law.