Joan Gottesman Wexler (born 1946) is an American attorney who is a former dean and president of Brooklyn Law School.

Wexler attended Cornell University, (B.S., 1968), Harvard Graduate School of Education (M.A.

[4][5][6][7] She joined the law firm of Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP as of counsel in 2016.

[4] Among her writings, Wexler authored "Husbands and Wives: The Uneasy Case for antinepotism Rules", 62 B.U.

75 (1982), and "Rethinking the Modification of Child Custody Decrees," 94 The Yale Law Journal 4 (March 1985).