Cristina M. Rodríguez

Cristina M. Rodríguez has been named the Sol and Lillian Goldman Dean and Professor of Law at Yale Law School. In her announcement to the Yale Law School community. Rodríguez joined Yale Law School in 2013 after serving for two years as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice.

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Rodríguez earned her B.A. in history from Yale College in 1995. She attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where she received a master of letters in modern history in 1998. Rodríguez earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000.