Anthony Townsend Kronman (born May 12, 1945) is an American legal scholar who serves as aSterling Professor atYale Law School specializing incontracts,bankruptcy,jurisprudence,social theory, andprofessional responsibility.^[1] He was the 14thdean of Yale Law School from 1994 to 2004.^[2]

Kronman was raised inLos Angeles,California, the son of Harry Kronman, aHollywood screenwriter, and actressRosella Towne.^[3] Kronman received aBachelor of Arts,magna cum laude, fromWilliams College in 1968 with membership inPhi Beta Kappa. Afterwards, he received a Ph.D. inphilosophy fromYale University in 1972, and aJuris Doctor fromYale Law School in 1975.^[2]He was an editor of theYale Law Journal while a law student at Yale.^[2]

He taught at theUniversity of Minnesota Law School from 1975 to 1976, and theUniversity of Chicago Law School from 1976 to 1978, before joining the Yale faculty.^[2] In addition to the courses that Kronman teaches at Yale Law School, he also teaches undergraduate classes in literature, philosophy, and history and politics as part of the Directed Studies program at Yale.^[4] Outside of his academic obligations, Kronman isof counsel at the law firm ofBoies, Schiller & Flexner.^[5]

Kronman has characterized contemporary diversity campaigns as political rather than educational. In his 2019 bookAssault on American Excellence, he criticized Yale's decisions to change the title of "master" to "head of college" and to rename "Calhoun College". He rebuked University President Peter Salovey's lack of support forthe Christakises, who were targeted by students during a 2015 protest over inclusivity and free discourse. Other members of the university community disagreed with Kronman's positions.^[6]

• Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. Yale University Press. 2007.ISBN 978-0300122886.
• Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan. Yale University Press. 2016.ISBN 978-0300208535.
• The Assault on American Excellence. Free Press. 2019.ISBN 978-1501199486.
• True Conservatism: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Arrogant Age. Yale University Press. 2025.ISBN 978-0300277036.

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