Ashbel Green Gulliver (November 23, 1897 – July 3, 1974)[1] was the dean of Yale Law School from 1940 to 1946.
from Yale University in 1919,[3] where he was secretary of the Elizabethan Club[4] and a member of the Wolf's Head secret society.
[10][11] While dean, in 1941, he wrote his classic article on trust law, "Classification of Gratuitous Transfers", with Catherine J. Tilson.
[13] In general, Gulliver was considered a solid, enterprising,[2] and uncontroversial administrator,[14] and a "mild-mannered man.
"[15] The Ashbel G. Gulliver Memorial Library Fund at Yale Law School is endowed in his name.