DREW S. DAYS, III
Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Professor Drew S. Days, III, was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate as Solicitor General of the United States, the Government’s lawyer before the United States Supreme Court. He served in that capacity from May 28, 1993 to June 30, 1996, on a leave of absence from Yale Law School faculty to which he returned in July. He is a 1963 honors graduate in English Literature of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He received his LL.B degree from Yale University in 1966. After practicing briefly with a labor firm in Chicago, he entered the Peace Corps, serving as a volunteer in Honduras from 1967-1969. In the fall of 1969, Mr. Days joined the staff of NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York City. At the Legal Defense Fund, he litigated cases in the areas of school desegregation, police misconduct and employment discrimination. Mr. Days remained on the staff of the Legal Defense Fund (except for a two year teaching leave at Temple University Law School) until early 1977. In March 1977, he was confirmed by the Senate to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, having been nominated to that post by President Jimmy Carter. Mr. Days served in that capacity until the end of 1980. In January 1981, he joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Law, receiving tenure in 1986. In November 1991, he was named to the Alfred M. Rankin Chair at the Law School. At Yale, his teaching and writing have been in the fields of civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, Supreme Court practice, antidiscrimination law, comparative constitutional law (Canada and the United States) and international human rights. From 1988 to 1993, he was also the founding director of the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for Human Rights at Yale University School of Law. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He serves on the boards of The John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and of Hamilton College, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been married since 1966 to Ann Ramsay Langdon, an artist and writer. They have two daughters, Alison, the medical director of a Head-Start Health Clinic in El Paso, Texas, and Elizabeth, an actress in New York City.