Larry D. Kramer

Mr. Larry D.
Kramer is President at The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, he served from 2004 to 2012 as Richard E.
Lang Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School.
During his tenure, he spearheaded significant educational reforms, pioneering a new model of multidisciplinary legal studies while enlarging the clinical education program, a public service ethos, and developing the international law program to support a growing emphasis on globalization in legal practice.
At the start of his career, he served as law clerk to U.S.
Court of Appeals Judge Henry J.
Friendly of the Second Circuit and U.S.
Supreme Court Justice William J.
Brennan Jr. He has served as professor of law at the University of Chicago and University of Michigan law schools.
He joined the faculty of New York University School of Law in 1994, where he served as Associate Dean for Research and Academics and Russell D.
Niles Professor of Law until leaving for Stanford in 2004.
Until joining Stanford, he also served as a special consultant for Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP.
He received a BA in Psychology and Religious Studies, magna cum laude, from Brown University and a JD, magna cum laude, from The University of Chicago-Law School.