Robert Todd Lang ‘47 was a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP. He was instrumental in the creation of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, which was established in 1999 following conversations between Lang and then Dean Anthony T. Kronman ‘75. Lang served as Chairman and Founder of the Center’s Board of Advisors, and his generosity helped establish, among other things, the annual Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable, which fosters dialogue among academics, legal practitioners, leaders of the business and investment communities, and policymakers.

In addition to his work with the Center, Lang served as Chairman of the Board of the Yale Law School Fund, and was a graduate of Yale College. In recognition of his distinguished service in law and business, Lang received the Simeon E. Baldwin Award from the Center in 2007.

Judge Ralph Karl Winter Jr. ’60 was a member of the Center’s Board of Advisors and a preeminent scholar in business law, who was the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School before being appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and continuing to teach at the Law School as an adjunct lecturer through 2014.

While at Yale Law School, then-Professor Winter made a seminal contribution to the study of corporate law. Corporate law classes today still teach students about something called the “Cary-Winter debate.” There was no debate until Ralph Winter came along.