Meet Robert Post, the new Harold Koh.

Yale Law School announced Monday that Post, currently the Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, will take over as law school dean effective July 1. He replaces Kate Stith, who has been acting dean since Koh moved to the State Department as chief legal adviser.

The law school notes:

Professor Post earned both a BA (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. (History of American Civilization) from Harvard, but between the two he received his law degree at Yale, where he was Note Editor of the Yale Law Journal and won the Michael Egger Prize. Immediately after graduating, he served as a Law Clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, following that year with a clerkship for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. He worked for nearly three years as an Associate at Williams & Connolly, and, in January 1983 moved to California to become Acting Professor of Law at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley.  He remained at Boalt Hall for twenty years, serving for the last nine years as the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law.

Credit where credit is due: Above the Law has been calling this one for a time.