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Series 119 Number 11 August 10, 2023
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Contents
Calendar
The President and Fellows o Yale University
The Ocers o Yale University
Yale Law School Administration and Faculty
A Message rom the Dean
The Study o Law at Yale University
Course Oerings
Fall Term
Spring Term
Lecture Programs and Other Academic Opportunities
Lecture Programs
Special Initiatives
Michael S. and Alexa B. Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership
Global Health Justice Partnership
The Gruber Program or Global Justice and Women’s Rights at Yale Law School
The Inormation Society Project
The Justice Collaboratory
Abdallah S. Kamel Center or the Study o Islamic Law and Civilization
The Law and Racial Justice Center
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program
The Arthur Liman Center or Public Interest Law
Carol and Gene Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership
Middle East Legal Studies Seminar
The John M. Olin Center or Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center or International Human Rights
The Solomon Center or Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School
The Joseph C. Tsai Leadership Program
The Paul Tsai China Center
The Yale Center or Environmental Law & Policy
The Yale Center or Law and Philosophy
The Yale Law School Center or Global Legal Challenges
The Yale Law School Center or Private Law
The Yale Law School Center or the Study o Corporate Law
Yale Law School Latin American Legal Studies
Opportunities or Study in Legal History
Visiting Researchers
Fellowships or Postgraduate Research
Rules o Discipline
Academic Requirements and Options
Registration
Course Selection
Limited Enrollment
Credit/Fail Units
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Examinations and Papers
Grades or All Degree Students
Calculation o Course Credit Units
Requirements or the Degree o Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Options within the Course o Study or the Degree o Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Clinical Programs
Joint Degrees
Leaves o Absence and Readmission, Extending Time or
Completion o Degree, and Credit or Work Done at Another Law School
Bar Requirements
Requirements or Graduate Degrees (Ph.D., J.S.D., LL.M., M.S.L.)
Freedom o Expression
Admissions, Expenses, and Financial Aid
The Degree o Juris Doctor (J.D.)
The Degree o Doctor o Philosophy in Law (Ph.D.)
The Degrees o Doctor o the Science o Law (J.S.D.)
and Master o Laws (LL.M.)
The Degree o Master o Studies in Law (M.S.L.)
Student Organizations and Journals and Student Participation in Administration
Student Organizations
Student Journals
Other Notable Events
Student Participation in Administration
Student Feedback Regarding ABA Standards
Career Development Oce
Lillian Goldman Law Library
Lie at Yale Law School
Yale University Resources and Services
Law School Students
Alumni
Endowment Funds
The Work o Yale University
Campus Map
Calendar
The ollowing dates are subject to change as the University makes decisions based on
public health guidance. Changes will be posted online on the Law School’s website.
Aug. – – Orientation/Registration or all new students
Aug.
Fall term begins, : a.m.
Classes begin, : a.m.
Add/drop period begins, : a.m.
Sept. Only Monday classes meet.
Sept. Labor Day; classes do not meet.
Sept. Add/drop period ends, : a.m.
Oct. No classes meet.
Nov. Only Friday classes meet
Classes end, p.m.
Nov. – – Thanksgiving break
Nov. Classes resume, : a.m.
Dec. Classes end, p.m.
Dec. – – Reading period
Dec. Examination period begins, : a.m.
Dec. Examination period ends, p.m.
Fall term ends, p.m.
Jan.
Spring term begins, : a.m.
Classes begin, : a.m.
Add/drop period begins, : a.m.
Jan. Add/drop period ends, : p.m.
Mar. Spring recess begins, p.m.
Mar. Classes resume, : a.m.
Apr. Classes end, p.m.
Apr. – – Reading period
Apr. Examination period begins, : a.m.
May Examination period ends, p.m.
Spring term ends, p.m.
May University Commencement
May Degrees voted by aculty
Aug. Fih-term certification deadline or rising third-year
students
The President and Fellows o Yale University
President
Peter Salovey, A.B., A.M., Ph.D.
Fellows
Joshua Bekenstein, B.A., M.B.A., Wayland, Massachusetts ( June 2025)
Gina Rosselli Boswell, B.S., M.B.A., Vero Beach, Florida ( June 2029)
Michael James Cavanagh, B.A., J.D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( June 2026)
Catharine Bond Hill, B.A., B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bronx, New York ( June 2024)
Maryana Iskander, B.A., M.Sc., J.D., Round Rock, Texas (June 2029)
William Earl Kennard, B.A., J.D., Charleston, South Carolina ( June 2026)
Frederic David Krupp, B.S., J.D., Norwalk, Connecticut ( June 2028)
Maurie Dee McInnis, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Setauket, New York ( June 2028)
Reiko Ann Miura-Ko, B.S., Ph.D., Menlo Park, Caliornia ( June 2025)
Carlos Roberto Moreno, B.A., J.D., Los Angeles, Caliornia ( June 2026)
Joshua Linder Steiner, B.A., M.St., New York, New York ( June 2024)
David Li Ming Sze, B.A., M.B.A., Hillsborough, Caliornia ( June 2024)
Marta Lourdes Tellado, B.A., Ph.D., New York, New York ( June 2028)
David Anthony Thomas, B.A., M.A., M.A., Ph.D., Atlanta, Georgia ( June 2027)
Michael James Warren, B.A., B.A., Washington, D.C. ( June 2024)
Neal Steven Wolin, B.A., M.Sc., J.D., Washington, D.C. ( June 2029)
His Excellency the Governor o Connecticut, ex ocio
Her Honor the Lieutenant Governor o Connecticut, ex ocio
The Ocers o Yale University
President
Peter Salovey, A.B., A.M., Ph.D.
Provost
Scott Allan Strobel, B.A., Ph.D.
Secretary and Vice President for University Life
Kimberly Midori Go-Crews, B.A., J.D.
Senior Vice President for Operations
Jack Francis Callahan, Jr., B.A., M.B.A.
Senior Vice President for Institutional Aairs and General Counsel
Alexander Edward Dreier, A.B., M.A., J.D.
Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Ocer
Stephen Charles Murphy, B.A.
Vice President for Alumni Aairs and Development
Joan Elizabeth O’Neill, B.A.
Vice President for Human Resources
John Whelan, B.A., J.D.
Vice President for Facilities, Campus Development, and Sustainability
Jack Michael Bellamy, B.S., M.S.
Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Ocer
John Barden, B.A., M.B.A.
Vice President for Communications
Renee Kopkowski, B.A.
Yale Law School Administration and Faculty
Ocers of Administration
Peter Salovey, A.B., M.A., Ph.D., President o the University
Scott Strobel, B.A., Ph.D., Provost o the University
Heather K. Gerken, A.B., J.D., Dean
Fiona M. Doherty, B.A., J.D., Deputy Dean
Yair Listokin, Ph.D., J.D., Deputy Dean
Monica C. Bell, J.D., Ph.D., Counselor to the Dean
Alvin Keith Klevorick, M.A., Ph.D., Counselor to the Dean
John D. Morley, B.S., J.D., Counselor to the Dean
Joseph M. Crosby, B.A., M.B.A., Senior Associate Dean
Femi A. Cadmus, M.L.I.S., LL.M., Law Librarian
Jennier Cerny, B.A., J.D., Associate Dean
Miriam F. Ingber, A.B., J.D., Associate Dean
Debra Kroszner, B.A., Associate Dean
Monica Maldonado, B.A., J.D., Associate Dean
Kristen B. Rozansky, B.A., Associate Dean
Mike K. Thompson, M.B.A., J.D., Associate Dean
Faculty Emeriti
Lea Brilmayer, J.D., LL.M., Howard M. Holtzmann Proessor Emeritus o Law
Guido Calabresi, LL.B., Dr.Jur., LL.D., D.Phil., H.Litt.D., D.Poli.Sci., Sterling
Proessor Emeritus o Law and Proessorial Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Dennis E. Curtis, B.S., LL.B., Clinical Proessor Emeritus o Law
Harlon Leigh Dalton, B.A., J.D., Proessor Emeritus o Law
Mirjan Radovan Damaška, LL.B., Dr.Jur., Sterling Proessor Emeritus o Law
Steven Barry Duke, J.D., LL.M., Proessor Emeritus o Law
Robert C. Ellickson, A.B., LL.B., Walter E. Meyer Proessor Emeritus o Property and
Urban Law
Owen M. Fiss, M.A., LL.B., Sterling Proessor Emeritus o Law
Robert W. Gordon, A.B., J.D., Chancellor Kent Proessor Emeritus o Law and Legal
History
Michael J. Graetz, B.B.A., LL.B., Justus S. Hotchkiss Proessor Emeritus o Law and
Proessorial Lecturer in Law (all term)
Henry B. Hansmann, J.D., Ph.D., Oscar M. Ruebhausen Proessor Emeritus o Law
John H. Langbein, LL.B., Ph.D., Sterling Proessor Emeritus o Law and Legal History
and Proessorial Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Jerry L. Mashaw, LL.B., Ph.D., Sterling Proessor Emeritus o Law and Proessorial
Lecturer in Law (all term)
Jean Koh Peters, A.B., J.D., Sol Goldman Clinical Proessor Emeritus o Law
William Michael Reisman, LL.M., J.S.D., Myres S. McDougal Proessor Emeritus o
International Law
Carol M. Rose, J.D., Ph.D., Gordon Bradord Tweedy Proessor Emeritus o Law and
Organization and Proessorial Lecturer in Law (all term)
Faculty
Susan Rose-Ackerman, B.A., Ph.D., Henry R. Luce Proessor Emeritus o
Jurisprudence (Law School and Department o Political Science) and Proessorial
Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Peter H. Schuck, M.A., LL.M., Simeon E. Baldwin Proessor Emeritus o Law
Robert A. Solomon, B.A., J.D., Clinical Proessor Emeritus o Law
Stephen Wizner, A.B., J.D., William O. Douglas Clinical Proessor Emeritus o Law
Faculty
Bruce Ackerman, B.A., LL.B., Sterling Proessor o Law and Political Science
Muneer I. Ahmad, A.B., J.D., Sol Goldman Clinical Proessor o Law, and Director,
Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization (on leave, all )
Anne L. Alstott, A.B., J.D., Jacquin D. Bierman Proessor in Taxation (on leave,
all )
Akhil Reed Amar, B.A., J.D., Sterling Proessor o Law
Rick Antle, B.S., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (all term)
Ian Ayres, J.D., Ph.D., Oscar M. Ruebhausen Proessor o Law
Aslı Ü. Bâli, J.D., Ph.D., Proessor o Law
Jack M. Balkin, J.D., Ph.D., Knight Proessor o Constitutional Law and the First
Amendment
Arielle Baskin-Sommers, B.S., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (all term)
Monica C. Bell, J.D., Ph.D., Proessor o Law, Associate Proessor o Sociology, and
Counselor to the Dean
Lauren A. Benton, A.B., Ph.D., Barton M. Biggs Proessor o History and Proessor o
Law
Philip C. Bobbitt, J.D., Ph.D., Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean ’ Visiting Proessor
o Law (all term)
Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, LL.M., J.S.D., Visiting Proessor o Law and Research
Scholar in Law
David Bromwich, B.A., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (spring term)
Richard R.W. Brooks, Ph.D., J.D., Florence Rogatz Visiting Proessor o Law (spring
term) and Senior Research Scholar in Law
Femi A. Cadmus, M.L.I.S., LL.M., Law Librarian and Proessor o Law
Guido Calabresi, LL.B., Dr.Jur., LL.D., D.Phil., H.Litt.D., D.Poli.Sci., Sterling
Proessor Emeritus o Law and Proessorial Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Steven G. Calabresi, B.A., J.D., Visiting Proessor in Law (all term) and Senior
Research Scholar in Law
James Campbell, B.A., J.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law
Stephen Lisle Carter, B.A., J.D., William Nelson Cromwell Proessor o Law
Jennier Cerny, B.A., J.D., Associate Dean
Amy Chua, A.B., J.D., John M. Du Jr. Proessor o Law
Joseph M. Crosby, B.A., M.B.A., Senior Associate Dean
Noel B. Cunningham, J.D., LL.M., Florence Rogatz Visiting Proessor o Law
(spring term)
Fiona M. Doherty, B.A., J.D., Deputy Dean or Experiential Education and Clinical
Proessor o Law
Justin Driver, M.S., J.D., Robert R. Slaughter Proessor o Law
Yale Law School 2023–2024
E. Donald Elliott, B.A., J.D., Florence Rogatz Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (all term)
Blake E.B. Emerson, Ph.D., J.D., Visiting Proessor o Law (spring term)
William N. Eskridge Jr., M.A., J.D., Alexander M. Bickel Proessor o Public Law
Daniel C. Esty, M.A., J.D., Hillhouse Proessor o Environmental Law and Policy, Yale
School o the Environment; and Clinical Proessor o Environmental Law and
Policy, Yale Law School (on leave, all )
Joseph J. Fins, B.A., M.D., Visiting Proessor o Law
Claudia M. Flores, B.A., J.D., Clinical Proessor o Law
James Forman, A.B., J.D., J. Skelly Wright Proessor o Law
Bryan Garsten, M.Phil., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (all term)
Heather K. Gerken, A.B., J.D., Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Proessor o Law
Paul Gewirtz, B.A., J.D., Potter Stewart Proessor o Constitutional Law (on leave,
spring )
Abbe R. Gluck, B.A., J.D., Alred M. Rankin Proessor o Law and Proessor o Internal
Medicine (General Medicine), Yale School o Medicine
Miriam S. Gohara, B.A., J.D., Clinical Proessor o Law
Gregg Gonsalves, B.S., Ph.D., Associate Proessor (Adjunct) o Law
Gary B. Gorton, M.A., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (all term)
Michael J. Graetz, B.B.A., LL.B., Justus S. Hotchkiss Proessor Emeritus o Law and
Proessorial Lecturer in Law (all term)
Jacob S. Hacker, B.A., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (spring term)
Robert D. Harrison, J.D., Ph.D., Lecturer in Legal Method
Oona A. Hathaway, A.B., J.D., Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Proessor o
International Law
Claudia Haupt, Ph.D., J.S.D., Visiting Proessor o Law (all term)
Michael Heland, M.Phil., Ph.D., Florence Rogatz Visiting Proessor o Law
(spring term)
Elizabeth K. Hinton, M.Phil., Ph.D., Associate Proessor o History & Arican
American Studies and Proessor o Law
John Inranca, M.A., J.D., Florence Rogatz Visiting Proessor o Law (spring term)
Miriam F. Ingber, A.B., J.D., Associate Dean
Edward J. Janger, B.A., J.D., Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Proessor o Law
(spring term)
Robert T. Jensen, B.A., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (spring term)
Christine Jolls, J.D., Ph.D., Gordon Bradord Tweedy Proessor o Law and
Organization
Cally Jordan, LL.B./B.C.L., D.E.A., Visiting Proessor o Law (spring term)
Dan M. Kahan, B.A., J.D., Elizabeth K. Dollard Proessor o Law and Proessor o
Psychology
Paul W. Kahn, J.D., Ph.D., Robert W. Winner Proessor o Law and the Humanities
(on leave, spring )
Amy Kapczynski, M.A., J.D., Proessor o Law
Orin Kerr, M.S., J.D., Michael A. Doyle ’ and Bunny Winter Distinguished Visiting
Proessor o Law (all term)
Madhav Khosla, LL.M., Ph.D., Visiting Proessor o Law (spring term)
Faculty
Alvin Keith Klevorick, M.A., Ph.D., John Thomas Smith Proessor o Law, Proessor o
Economics, and Counselor to the Dean
Harold Hongju Koh, M.A., J.D., Sterling Proessor o International Law
Issa Kohler-Hausmann, J.D., Ph.D., Proessor o Law and Associate Proessor o
Sociology
Anthony Townsend Kronman, J.D., Ph.D., Sterling Proessor o Law
Debra Kroszner, B.A., Associate Dean
Douglas Kysar, B.A., J.D., Joseph M. Field ’ Proessor o Law (on leave, spring )
John H. Langbein, LL.B., Ph.D., Sterling Proessor Emeritus o Law and Legal History
and Proessorial Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Anika Singh Lemar, B.A., J.D., Clinical Proessor o Law
Zachary D. Liscow, Ph.D., J.D., Proessor o Law (on leave, all )
Yair Listokin, Ph.D., J.D., Deputy Dean and Shibley Family Fund Proessor o Law
P. David Lopez, B.S., J.D., Visiting Proessor o Law
Jonathan R. Macey, A.B., J.D., Sam Harris Proessor o Corporate Law, Corporate
Finance, and Securities Law
Monica Maldonado, B.A., J.D., Associate Dean
Daniel Markovits, D.Phil., J.D., Guido Calabresi Proessor o Law
Jerry L. Mashaw, LL.B., Ph.D., Sterling Proessor Emeritus o Law and Proessorial
Lecturer in Law (all term)
Tracey L. Meares, B.S., J.D., Walton Hale Hamilton Proessor o Law (on leave,
–)
Noah Messing, B.A., J.D., Lecturer in the Practice o Law and Legal Writing
Andrew Metrick, A.M., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (all term)
Alice M. Miller, A.B., J.D., Associate Proessor (Adjunct) o Law
John D. Morley, B.S., J.D., Proessor o Law and Counselor to the Dean (on leave, all
)
Samuel Moyn, Ph.D., J.D., Chancellor Kent Proessor o Law and History
Christine M. Mulligan, A.B., J.D., Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean ’ Visiting
Proessor o Law (spring term)
Douglas NeJaime, A.B., J.D., Anne Urowsky Proessor in Law (on leave, spring )
Saule Omarova, Ph.D., J.D., Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean ’ Visiting Proessor o
Law (spring term)
Marisol Orihuela, B.A., J.D., Clinical Proessor o Law
Nicholas R. Parrillo, J.D., Ph.D., William K. Townsend Proessor o Law and Proessor
o History
Alan Plattus, B.A., M.Arch., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (all term)
Robert C. Post, J.D., Ph.D., Sterling Proessor o Law
Maya Prabhu, M.D., LL.B., Clinical Associate Proessor (Adjunct) o Law
Claire Priest, J.D., Ph.D., Simeon E. Baldwin Proessor o Law (on leave, spring )
George L. Priest, B.A., J.D., Edward J. Phelps Proessor o Law and Economics (on
leave, spring )
Ketan Ramakrishnan, D.Phil., J.D., Associate Proessor o Law
Judith Resnik, B.A., J.D., Arthur Liman Proessor o Law
Sven Riethmueller, A.B., J.D., Clinical Associate Proessor o Law and Robert Todd
Lang ’ Entrepreneurship Fellow
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Cristina M. Rodríguez, M.Litt., J.D., Leighton Homer Surbeck Proessor o Law
Roberta Romano, M.A., J.D., Sterling Proessor o Law
Carol M. Rose, J.D., Ph.D., Gordon Bradord Tweedy Proessor Emeritus o Law and
Organization and Proessorial Lecturer in Law (all term)
Susan Rose-Ackerman, B.A., Ph.D., Henry R. Luce Proessor o Jurisprudence (Law
School and Department o Polical Science) and Proessorial Lecturer in Law (spring
term)
Kristen B. Rozansky, B.A., Associate Dean
Jed Rubeneld, A.B., J.D., Proessor o Law
Nils Rudi, B.Sc., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (spring term)
Sarath Sanga, Ph.D., J.D., Proessor o Law
Natasha Sarin, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Proessor o Law
David N. Schleicher, M.Sc., J.D., Proessor o Law (on leave, spring )
Vicki Schultz, B.A., J.D., Ford Foundation Proessor o Law and Social Sciences (on
leave, spring )
Alan Schwartz, B.S., LL.B., Sterling Proessor o Law (on leave, all )
Scott J. Shapiro, J.D., Ph.D., Charles F. Southmayd Proessor o Law and Proessor o
Philosophy
Kelly Shue, A.M., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (spring term)
Reva B. Siegel, M.Phil., J.D., Nichola deB. Katzenbach Proessor o Law
James J. Silk, M.A., J.D., Binger Clinical Proessor o Human Rights
Cecilia A. Silver, M.St., J.D., Director o Legal Research and Writing, Lecturer in Law,
and Senior Research Scholar in Law
Steven Smith, B.A., J.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (spring term)
Jason Stanley, B.A., Ph.D., Proessor (Adjunct) o Law (spring term)
Kate Stith, M.P.P., J.D., Laayette S. Foster Proessor o Law
Zephyr Teachout, M.A., J.D., Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean ’ Visiting Proessor o
Law (spring term)
Mike K. Thompson, M.B.A., J.D., Associate Dean
Gerald Torres, J.D., LL.M., Proessor o Environmental Justice and Proessor o Law
Tom R. Tyler, M.A., Ph.D., Macklin Fleming Proessor o Law and Proessor o
Psychology (on leave, spring )
Patrick Eric Weil, M.B.A., Ph.D., Florence Rogatz Visiting Proessor o Law (all term)
James Q. Whitman, J.D., Ph.D., Ford Foundation Proessor o Comparative and
Foreign Law (on leave, spring )
Michael J. Wishnie, B.A., J.D., William O. Douglas Clinical Proessor o Law
John Fabian Witt, J.D., Ph.D., Allen H. Duy Class o Proessor o Law (on
leave, all )
Kevin J Worthen, B.A., J.D., Doyle-Winter Distinguished Visiting Proessor o Law
Gideon Yae, A.B., Ph.D., Wesley Newcomb Hoheld Proessor o Jurisprudence,
Proessor o Philosophy, and Proessor o Psychology (on leave, –)
Taisu Zhang, J.D., Ph.D., Proessor o Law
Lecturers in Legal Research
Jason Eiseman, B.A., M.L.S.
Julie Graves Krishnaswami, J.D., M.L.I.S.
Faculty
Alexander Jakubow, M.A., Ph.D.
Evelyn Ma, J.D., M.L.S.
Nicholas Mignanelli, J.D., M.L.I.S.
John B. Nann, M.S., J.D.
Lucie Olejnikova, J.D., M.L.S.
Michael VanderHeijden, J.D., M.L.S.
Research Scholars, Fellows, and Lecturers in Law
Maureen Abell, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Margie Adler, B.A., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law and Executive Director,
Carol and Gene Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership
Amin Arouzi, M.Phil., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Laith Aqel, B.A., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, LL.M., J.S.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Chinmayi Arun, LL.B., LL.M., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term), Associate
Research Scholar in Law, and Executive Director, Inormation Society Project
David P. Atkins, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Suzanne Augenhoer, LL.M., LL.M., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Roy Bar Sadeh, M.A., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Sandra S. Baron, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Kelly M. Barrett, B.A., J.D., Peter Gruber Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Emily Bazelon, B.A., J.D., Lecturer in Law (spring term), Senior Research Scholar in
Law, and Truman Capote Fellow
Craig Becker, B.A., J.D., Irving S. Ribico Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Brian Logan Beirne, B.S., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law (all term)
Yochai Benkler, LL.B., J.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Reginald Dwayne Betts, B.A., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
James Bhandary-Alexander, B.A., J.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research
Scholar in Law
Elizabeth Corinne Blalock, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law and
Executive Director, Law and Political Economy Project
Jennier A. Borg, B.A., J.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in
Law
Ray Boyd, Associate Research Scholar in Law
David Bralow, M.S.J., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law
Daina Bray, B.A., J.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law (spring term) and Senior Research
Scholar in Law
Stephen B. Bright, B.A., J.D., Harvey L. Karp Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Heidi S. Brooks, B.A., Ph.D., Lecturer in Law
Sharon Brooks, B.A., J.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Alred Brownell, J.D., LL.M., Research Scholar in Law
Sanord O. Bruce III, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
G. Eric Brunstad Jr., LL.M., J.S.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior Research
Scholar in Law
Matthew Bugher, B.S., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Margot Kenefick Burkle, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Elizabeth J. Cabraser, A.B., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Jorge X. Camacho, B.A., J.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar
in Law
Lincoln Caplan, A.B., J.D., Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term) and
Senior Research Scholar in Law
Donald Robert Carlson, B.A., J.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior
Executive Director, The Tsai Leadership Program (on leave, all )
Susan Laura Carney, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Jacob Chabot, B.A., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Yangyang Cheng, M.S., Ph.D., Research Scholar in Law
Heather Cherry, M.B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Jerey W. Chivers, A.B., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Ruth C.M. Coey, M.A., M.Sc., Lecturer in Law (spring term) and Senior Research
Scholar in Law
Kate Cooney, M.S.W., Ph.D., Lecturer in Law (all term)
Victoria Cundi, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Jeremy L. Daum, B.S., J.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Rick D’Avino, B.S., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law and Oscar M. Ruebhausen
Distinguished Fellow (all term)
David Carter Dinielli, A.B., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Margaret M. Donovan, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law (all term)
Tadhg Dooley, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Ross Douthat, A.B., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Amy Eppler-Epstein, A.B., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Harris Eppsteiner, B.A., Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Matthew Ferchen, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Eugene Fidell, B.A., LL.B., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Gregory Fleming, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinica Lecturer in Law (all term)
Jonathan N. Francis, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Amalie Othilie Fredriksen, LL.B., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Natalia N. Friedlander, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law, Associate Research
Scholar in Law, and Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow
Seth R. Garbarsky, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Timothy F. Geithner, B.A., M.A., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Jerey S. Gentes, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Pierre Gentin, A.B., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law
Saumyashree Ghosh, M.Phil., Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Avery P. Gilbert, B.A., J.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar in
Law
Martha Gimbel, A.B., M.A., Research Scholar in Law
Je Gordon, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Benjamin W. Graham, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Dana Greene, M.Phil., Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Linda Greenhouse, B.A., M.S.L., Clinical Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar
in Law
Faculty
Lucas Guttentag, A.B., J.D., Martin R. Flug Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior
Research Scholar in Law
Benjamin M. Haldeman, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Andrei Harwell, B.Arch, M.Arch, Lecturer in Law (all term)
David G. Hawkins, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Benjamin W. Heineman Jr., B.Litt., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Mary J.L. Herrington, B.A., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law and Executive
Director, Michael S. and Alexa B. Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership
Sarah P. Hogarth, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Salwa Hoque, B.A., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Jamie P. Horsley, M.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term) and Senior Fellow,
Paul Tsai China Center
Jennier Lea Huer, J.D., LL.M., Research Scholar in Law
Paul W. Hughes III, M.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Sara E. Imperiale, J.D., M.S.L., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law and Oscar M.
Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow
Kelly Johnson, M.A., D.P.H., Research Scholar in Law
Joette Katz, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Pardiss Kebriaei, B.Mus., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law and Senior Liman
Fellow in Residence
Joshua Kendall, B.A., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Nancy L. Kestenbaum, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Bahman Khodadadi, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Michael Kimberly, M.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Igor Kirman, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Chris Klatell, B.A., J.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Steven Koh, M.Phil., J.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Jonathan Landy, A.B., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Stephen Latham, J.D., Ph.D., Lecturer in Law (all term)
Carly R. Levenson, B.A., J.D., Peter Gruber Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Ariane Lewis, B.A., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Nancy Liao, A.B., J.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law and John R. Raben/Sullivan &
Cromwell Executive Director, Yale Law School Center or the Study o Corporate
Law
Daniel Loehr, B.A., J.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar in
Law
Darius Longarino, B.A., J.D., Research Scholar in Law
Jonathan R. Lovvorn, J.D., LL.M., Clinical Lecturer in Law (spring term) and Senior
Research Scholar in Law
Karman Lucero, B.A., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Andrew A. Lyons-Berg, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Mohammad “Musa” Mahmodi, LL.B., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Alaa Majeed, B.A., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Michael McGovern, M.Phil., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Edgar Melgar, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Aaron Louis Mendon-Plasek, M.A., M.Phil., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Hope R. Metcal, B.A., J.D., Lecturer in Law, Research Scholar in Law, and Executive
Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center or International Human Rights
Jerey A. Meyer, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Andrew Miller, M.Sc., J.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law (spring term) and Associate
Research Scholar in Law
Peter R. Mitchell, J.D., LL.M., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Viveca Morris, M.E.M, M.B.A., Clinical Lecturer in Law; Research Scholar in Law;
and Executive Director, Law, Ethics, and Animals Program
Zahra Motamedi, B.A., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Cantwell F. Muckenuss III, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Julie A. Murray, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
David Nachman, B.A., J.D., George W. and Sadella D. Craword Visiting Lecturer in
Law (all term)
Aseel Najib, M.A., M.Phil., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Kevin Christopher Newsom, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Daniel Newton, LL.B., LL.M., Visiting Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar
in Law
Caroline Nobo, B.A., M.S., Research Scholar in Law and Executive Director, The
Justice Collaboratory
Sean O’Brien, B.A., MA.Ed., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Ian Park, M.St., Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Stephen Lane Pevar, A.B., J.D., Irving S. Ribico Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Stephen T. Poellot, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Richard Prisinzano, M.S., Ph.D., Research Scholar in Law
Tobin Raju, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research
Scholar in Law
Rebecca Ramirez, P.S.M., J.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research
Scholar in Law
Ana C. Reyes, J.D., M.A., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law (spring term)
John Ricco, B.A., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Stephen Roach, B.A., Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Emily B. Rock, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar in
Law
Theodore I. Rostow, B.A., J.D., Irving S. Ribico Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring
term)
David R. Roth, M.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Charles A. Rotheld, A.B., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Mortiz Rudol, B.A., Ph.D., Research Scholar in Law
Sherrie L. Russell-Brown, J.D., LL.M., Senior Research Scholar in Law
John M. Samuels, J.D., LL.M., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Marina V. Santilli, J.D., M.A., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Jacob M. Schriner-Briggs, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Amy Schulman, B.A., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
David A. Schulz, M.A., J.D., Floyd Abrams Lecturer in Law and Senior Research
Scholar in Law
Faculty
Jonathan D. Schwartz, J.D., M.Phil., Visiting Lecturer in Law
Kevin S. Schwartz, Ph.D., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Genevieve Scott, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research
Scholar in Law
Matthew R. Segal, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Zvi Septimus, B.A., Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Paul Lewis Shechtman, M.A., J.D., Irving S. Ribico Visiting Lecturer in Law
Thomas Silverstein, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Dan Singer, B.A., M.B.A., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Jennier Skene, B.S., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Priscilla J. Smith, B.A., J.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law, Associate Research Scholar
in Law, and Senior Fellow, Program or the Study o Reproductive Justice,
Inormation Society Project
Emma Sokolo-Rubin, B.A., J.D., Lecturer in Law; Associate Research Scholar in Law;
and Director, San Francisco Armative Litigation Project
Matthew Steele, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Gary Stewart, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Jania Stewart-James, B.A., M.A., Associate Research Scholar in Law
Lisa Suatoni, M.E.S., Ph.D., Timothy B. Atkeson Visiting Clinical Environmental
Lecturer in Law (spring term)
Jennier Rae Taylor, M.S., J.D., Lecturer in Law; Clinical Lecturer in Law; Research
Scholar in Law; and Executive Director, Arthur Liman Center or Public Interest
Law
Kathryn Thomas, J.D., Ph.D., Clinical Lecturer in Law
Trace C. Vardsveen, J.D., Ph.D., Lecturer in Law (all term) and Associate Research
Scholar in Law
Kayla Vinson, M.P.A., J.D., Lecturer in Law; Associate Research Scholar in Law; and
Executive Director, Law and Racial Justice Center
A.J. Wasserstein, B.A., M.B.A., Visiting Lecturer in Law (all term)
Derek Webb, Ph.D., J.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Changhao Wei, B.S., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
James Weinstein, B.A., J.D., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Robert D. Williams, B.A., J.D., Lecturer in Law (spring term); Senior Research
Scholar in Law; and Executive Director, Paul Tsai China Center
David Winterton, M.Phil, D.Phil., Senior Research Scholar in Law
Megan S. Wright, Ph.D., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law
Yonatan Zamir, B.A., J.D., Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Caroline Zhang, B.A., J.D., Associate Research Scholar in Law
David M. Zornow, B.A., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law and Oscar M. Ruebhausen
Distinguished Fellow (all term)
Gerson Zweiach, A.B., J.D., Visiting Lecturer in Law
Tutors in Law
Akshat Agarwal, LL.B., LL.M.
Akriti Gaur, LL.B., LL.M.
James M. Tierney, A.B., M.A.
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Tutors in Legal Studies
Elana Bildner, B.A., J.D.
Gregory Bok, B.A., J.D.
Natalia N. Friedlander, B.A., J.D.
Robert D. Harrison, J.D., Ph.D.
Frances Kellner, M.Phil., J.D.
Jorja Knauer, B.A., J.D.
Sean McLernon, B.A., J.D.
Noah Messing, B.A., J.D.
Sohail Ramirez, B.A., J.D.
Cecilia A. Silver, M.St., J.D.
Emma Sokolo-Rubin, B.A., J.D.
Alayna Stone, M.P.P., J.D.
Andrew Steinmetz, B.A., J.D.
Assistants in Instruction
Coker Fellows
Ella Bunnell, B.A., M.A.
Rachel Crowl, B.A.
Henock Dory, B.A.
Jacob Gonzalez, B.A., M.Div.
Danny Haidar, B.A.
Sachin Holdheim, B.S., B.A.
Will Krueger, A.B.
Rebecca Landau, B.A., M.F.A.
Lydia Laramore, B.A.
Carl Lasker, B.A.
Caroline Leever, B.A.
Raquel Leslie, A.B.
Jacob Levin, B.S., M.A.
Evan Lisman, B.A.
Pragya Malik, A.B.
Helen Malley, B.A.
Isaac May, M.T.S., Ph.D.
Melissa Muller, B.A.
Jamie Piltch, A.B.
Philine Qian, B.S.
Mason Sands, A.B.
Karina Shah, B.S.
Victoria Suarez-Palomo, B.A.
Aren Torikian, B.A.
Jammie Walker, B.F.A.
Brianna Yang, B.A.
A Message rom the Dean
At Yale Law School we educate lawyers and leaders in a ashion that is completely
distinctive. We aim to train you or your last job, not just your first. Our graduates are
broad-gauged, wide-ranging thinkers who blaze pathways in every sector o society.
Their career paths are as varied and eclectic as they are. Some take a traditional lawyer-
ing path, while others work in Hollywood, Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley. Our
graduates ound companies and nonprofits. They work in the White House and on Wall
Street. Their potential is limitless; their impact is powerul.
With our world-renowned aculty and remarkable student body, there is no better
place to learn how to think. This is a place where ideas matter, and theory is taught at the
highest level. Yale Law School houses the most sophisticated and eclectic aculty in the
country, an unmatched aculty-student ratio, and an intellectual experience that is truly
unparalleled.
The Law School is just as ambitious about practice. Our clinics do work o an unrivaled
scope and ambition. Ninety percent o our students enroll in clinics, and an extraordinary
number o our aculty either run clinics or do substantial experiential work. There are
more than three dozen legal clinics that do cutting-edge work and dozens o innovative
programs and centers serving their communities and eecting change across the country
and throughout the world. Our students don’t just volunteer or organizations; they
ound them. Our community doesn’t sit on the sidelines; we make headlines.
There’s never been a better time to be a part o this community and ready yoursel or
the challenges ahead.
Heather K. Gerken
Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law
Yale Law School
The Study o Law at Yale University
The origins o Yale Law School trace to the earliest days o the nineteenth century, when
there was as yet no university legal education. Instead, law was learned by clerking as an
apprentice in a lawyer’s oce. The first law schools, including the one that became Yale,
developed out o this apprenticeship system and grew up inside law oces. The earliest
o these law-oce law schools, located in Litchfield, Connecticut, trained upwards o a
thousand students rom throughout the country over the hal-century rom its begin-
nings in the s until it closed in .
The uture Yale Law School ormed in the oce o a New Haven practitioner, Seth
Staples. Staples owned an exceptionally good library (an attraction or students at a time
when law books were quite scarce), and he began training apprentices in the early s.
By the s his law oce had a ull-fledged law school. In Staples took on a ormer
student, Samuel Hitchcock, as a partner in his combined law oce and law school. A ew
years later, Staples moved his practice to New York, leaving Hitchcock as the proprietor
o the New Haven Law School. (Staples went on to become counsel to Charles Goodyear
in the litigation that vindicated Goodyear’s patent on the vulcanizing process or rubber
manuacture, and Staples served pro bono as one o the lawyers who won the celebrated
Amistad case in .)
The New Haven Law School aliated gradually with Yale across the two decades
rom the mid-s to the mid-s. David Daggett, a ormer U.S. senator rom Con-
necticut, joined Hitchcock as co-proprietor o the school in . In Yale named
Daggett to be proessor o law in Yale College, where he lectured to undergraduates
on public law and government. Also in the Yale College catalogue began to list
“The Law School’s” instructors and course o study, although law students did not begin
receiving Yale degrees until .
Yale Law School remained ragile or decades. At the death o Samuel Hitchcock in
and again upon the death o his successor, Henry Dutton, in , the University
came near to closing the School. Preoccupied with the needs o Yale College, the Uni-
versity le the Law School largely in the hands o a succession o New Haven practicing
lawyers who operated the School as a proprietorship. Thus, instead o receiving salaries,
they were paid with what was le o the year’s tuition revenue aer the School’s other
expenses. The School was housed in rented space in a single lecture hall over a downtown
saloon until , when it moved to premises in the New Haven county courthouse.
(The School acquired its first home on the Yale campus, Hendrie Hall, in the s, and
moved to its present home, the Sterling Law Building, in .)
In the last decades o the nineteenth century Yale began to take the mission o univer-
sity legal education seriously, and to articulate or Yale Law School two traits that would
come to be hallmarks o the School. First, Yale Law School would be small and humane;
it would resist the pressures that were emerging in university law schools elsewhere
toward large enrollments and impersonal aculty-student relations.
The Study of Law at Yale University
Second, Yale Law School would be interdisciplinary in its approach to teaching the
law. Yale’s President Theodore Dwight Woolsey, in a notable address delivered in ,
challenged the contemporary orthodoxy that law was an autonomous discipline:
Let the school, then, be regarded no longer as simply the place or training men to
plead causes, to give advice to clients, to deend criminals; but let it be regarded as
the place o instruction in all sound learning relating to the oundations o justice, the
doctrine o government, to all those branches o knowledge which the most finished
statesman and legislator ought to know.
Yale’s program o promoting interdisciplinarity in legal studies within a setting o low
aculty-student ratios took decades to evolve and to implement. Initially, the Law School
achieved its links to other fields o knowledge by arranging or selected members o other
departments o the University to teach in the Law School. Across the twentieth century,
Yale pioneered the appointment to the law aculty o proessors with advanced training
in fields ranging rom economics to psychiatry. This led Yale Law School away rom the
preoccupation with private law that then typified American legal education, and toward
serious engagement with public and international law.
The revival o Yale Law School aer was led by its first ull-time dean, Francis
Wayland, who helped the School establish its philanthropic base. It was during this
time that the modern law library was organized and Hendrie Hall was constructed. It
was also during this period that The Yale Law Journal was started and Yale’s pioneering
eorts in graduate programs in law began; the degree o Master o Laws was oered
or the first time in . The aculty was led by Simeon Baldwin, who began teaching
at the School at age twenty-nine and retired fiy years later in . Baldwin became
the leading railroad lawyer o the Railroad Age. He wrote dozens o books and articles
on a wide range o legal subjects. He also served as governor o Connecticut and chie
justice o the state Supreme Court. Along with other members o the Law School aculty,
he played a significant part in the ounding o the American Bar Association (he also
served as president o that organization) and what ultimately became the Association o
American Law Schools.
Aer , Yale Law School acquired its character as a dynamic center o legal schol-
arship. Arthur Corbin, hired as a youngster in , became the dominant contracts
scholar o the first hal o the twentieth century. Among those who joined him in the
next decade was Wesley N. Hoheld, whose account o jural relations remains a classic
o American jurisprudence.
In the s Yale Law School spawned the movement known as legal realism, which
has reshaped the way American lawyers understand the unction o legal rules and the
work o courts and judges. The realists directed attention to actors not captured in
the rules, ranging rom the attitudes o judges and jurors to the nuances o the acts o
particular cases. Under the influence o realism, American legal doctrine has become
less conceptual and more empirical. Under Dean Charles Clark (–), the School
built a aculty that included such legendary figures as Thurman Arnold, Edwin Borchard,
uture U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Jerome Frank, Underhill Moore,
Walton Hamilton, and Wesley Sturges. Clark was the moving figure during these years
in craing the Federal Rules o Civil Procedure, the oundation o modern American
procedure.
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Yale Law School’s tradition o emphasizing public as well as private law proved ever
more prescient as events o the twentieth century increased the role o public aairs
in the lie o the law. Yale graduates ound themselves uniquely well prepared to play
important roles in the rise o the administrative state, the internationalization ollowing
the World Wars, and the domestic civil rights movement. In the s and s, the
School became renowned as a center o constitutional law, taxation, commercial law,
international law, antitrust, and law and economics. In recent decades the pace o cur-
ricular innovation has i anything quickened, as the School has developed new strengths
in such fields as comparative constitutional law, corporate finance, environmental law,
gender studies, international human rights, and legal history, as well as an array o clini-
cal programs taught by a clinical aculty o exceptional breadth and devotion.
Deans of Yale Law School, 1873–Present
– Francis Wayland
– Henry Wade Roger
– Thomas Walter Swan
– Robert Maynard Hutchins ’
– Charles Edward Clark ’
– Ashbel Green Gulliver ’
– Wesley Alba Sturges ’
– Harry Shulman
– Eugene Victor Rostow ’
– Louis Heilprin Pollak ’
– Abraham Samuel Goldstein ’
– Harry Hillel Wellington
– Guido Calabresi ’
– Anthony Townsend Kronman ’
– Harold Hongju Koh
– Robert C. Post ’
– Heather K. Gerken
The ollowing sections contain the course oerings, a general description o the require-
ments or graduation rom Yale Law School, and inormation concerning various
academic options. Students are charged with notice o the contents o this bulletin.
Course Oerings
Course descriptions and ull course details: https://courses.law.yale.edu.
First-Term Courses
Constitutional Law I (10001) units. C.M. Rodríguez (Section A), R.B. Siegel (Sec-
tion B), J.M. Balkin (Group ), J. Driver (Group ), P. Gewirtz (Group ), A.T. Kronman
(Group ), S. Moyn (Group ), R.C. Post (Group )
Contracts I (11001) units. I. Ayres (Section A), R. Brooks (Section B), S.L. Carter
(Section C), Y. Listokin (Group ), D. Markovits (Group ), S. Sanga (Group )
Procedure I (12001) units. A.R. Gluck (Section A), H.H. Koh (Section B), J. Resnik
(Group )
Criminal Law and Administration I (14001) units. F.M. Doherty (Section A),
D. Kahan (Section B), J.Q. Whitman (Section C), M. Bell (Group ), J. Forman (Group
), I. Kohler-Hausmann (Group )
Advanced Courses
Administrative Law (20170) units. C.M. Jolls
Administrative Law and Bureaucracy: Supervised Research (20684) or units.
N. Parrillo
Advanced Access to Law School: Fieldwork (20619) to units. J. Forman Jr. and
K. Vinson
Advanced Administrative Law (20344) units. N. Parrillo
Advanced Appellate Litigation Project (30200) units, graded. T. Dooley and
D.R. Roth
Advanced Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic: Fieldwork (30146) or units.
M. Gohara, K. Barrett, C.R Levenson, and D. Loehr
Advanced Climate, Animals, Food, and Environment Law and Policy Lab (30242)
to units. D. Kysar, D. Bray, J. Lovvorn, and V. Morris
Advanced Community and Economic Development: Fieldwork (30132) or units.
A.S. Lemar and C.F. Muckenuss III
Advanced Comparative Law (20487) units. T. Zhang
Advanced Constitutional Law (20109) or units. J. Rubeneld
Advanced Contracts: Seminar (20530) or units. A. Chua
Advanced Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic: Fieldwork (30238) to units.
S. Riethmueller
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Advanced Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic: Seminar (30237) unit.
S. Riethmueller
Advanced Environmental Protection Clinic (30165) to units. D. Kysar,
D. Hawkins, R.G. Ramirez, and J. Skene
Advanced Federal Indian Law: Contemporary Issues (20655) units. S. Pevar
Advanced Housing and Community Development Seminar (30332) unit.
A.S. Lemar and J. Gentes
Advanced Housing Clinic: Fieldwork (30151) to units. A.S. Lemar, J. Gentes, and
T.S. Silverstein
Advanced International Law and Foreign Relations in Practice (20718) or units.
O. Hathaway
Advanced International Refugee Assistance Project (30171) or units. A. Majeed,
S. Poellet, and M. Prabhu
Advanced Legal Assistance Clinic: Immigrant Rights: Fieldwork (30203)
to units. B. Haldeman and M. Abell
Advanced Legal Assistance: Reentry Clinic: Fieldwork (30202) to units.
A. Eppler-Epstein and Y. Zamir
Advanced Legal Writing (20032) or units. R.D. Harrison
Advanced Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic Fieldwork (30274)
to units. C.M. Flores and H.R. Metcal
Advanced Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic Seminar (30174) unit.
C.M. Flores and H.R. Metcal
Advanced Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (30176) to units.
D.A. Schulz, J.M. Balkin, S. Baron, J.A. Borg, D.S. Bralow, D.C. Dinielli, T. Raju, and
J.M. Schriner-Briggs
Advanced Medical Legal Partnerships (20597) to units. A.R. Gluck,
J.N. Bhandary-Alexander, and E.B. Rock
Advanced Mental Health Justice Clinic: Fieldwork (30257) to units. M. Orihuela
Advanced Policing, Law, and Policy Clinic (30249) units. J. Camacho
Advanced Property and Legal History: Directed Research (20688) or units.
C. Priest
Advanced Reproductive Rights and Justice Project: Fieldwork (30231) to units.
R.B. Siegel, G.E. Scott, and P.J. Smith
Advanced Reproductive Rights and Justice Project: Seminar (30230) unit.
R.B. Siegel, G.E. Scott, and P.J. Smith
Fall Courses
Advanced San Francisco Armative Litigation Project (30179) to units.
H. Gerken and E. Sokolo-Rubin
Advanced Strategic Advocacy Clinic (30248) or units. I. Kohler-Hausmann and
A. Gilbert
Advanced Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic (30181) units. C. Rotheld, S. Hogarth,
P. Hughes, M. Kimberly, and A. Lyons-Berg
Advanced Topics in Third World Approaches to International Law: Directed
Research (20154) to units. A.U. Bâli
Advanced Veterans Legal Services Clinic Fieldwork (30126) to units.
M.J. Wishnie and N.N. Friedlander
Advanced Veterans Legal Services Clinic: Seminar (30125) unit, credit/ail.
M.J. Wishnie and N.N. Friedlander
Advanced Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic: Fieldwork (30130)
to units. M.J. Wishnie and K.B. Tyrrell
Advanced Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic: Seminar (30129) unit,
credit/ail. M.J. Wishnie and K.B. Tyrrell
Advanced Written Advocacy (30218) units. N. Messing
American Carceral State: Seminar (20771) units. E. Hinton
Antitrust (20629) units. A.K. Klevorick
Antitrust and Democracy (20034) units. Z. Teachout
Antitrust: Directed Research (20007) to units. A.K. Klevorick
Antitrust: Directed Research (20175) Units to be arranged. G.L. Priest
Applied Corporate Finance (20589) units. R. Romano
Artificial Intelligence, the Legal Profession, and Procedure: Seminar (20268)
or units. W.N. Eskridge Jr., J.W. Chivers, and T. Rostow
Bankruptcy (20106) units. E. Janger
Bioethics and Law: Seminar (20571) or units. S.R. Latham
Brain Injury, Medical Ethics and Disability Rights: Directed Research (20467)
unit. A.R. Gluck
Business Organizations (20219) units. J.R. Macey
Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic: Seminar (30135) and Fieldwork (30136)
units each component. M. Gohara, K. Barrett, and C.R. Levenson
Chinese Law and Society (20670) units. T. Zhang
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Climate, Animals, Food, and Environment Law and Policy Lab (30241) units.
D. Kysar, D. Bray, J. Lovvorn, and V. Morris
Collective Action in the Workplace: Organizing, Unions, and Collective Bargaining
(20213) units. C. Becker
Community and Economic Development: Fieldwork (30131) units. A.S. Lemar and
C.F. Muckenuss III
[The] Constitution: Philosophy, History, and Law (20190) units. B. Ackerman
Constitutional and Civil Rights Impact Litigation (20546) units. L. Guttentag
Corporate Finance (20364) units. N.R. Sarin
Corporate Taxation (20331) units. N. Cunningham
Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic: Fieldwork (30149) units. M. Gohara,
M. Orihuela, and D. Loehr
Criminal Procedure: Adjudication (20270) units. P. Shechtman
Crisis of Liberalism (20592) units. S. Moyn, R.G. Douthat, and B. Garsten
Critical Race Theory (20334) units. G. Torres
Cybersecurity (20310) units. S. Shapiro
Doing Constitutional Law: Some Contemporary Theories (20442) units.
A.R. Amar and P. Bobbitt
Empirical Research for Lawyers (20647) units. T. Vardsveen
Energy Law and Policy (20297) or units. E.D. Elliott
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic: Seminar (30234) and Fieldwork (30236)
units each component. S. Riethmueller
Entrepreneurship through Acquisition: Purchasing and Operating Small Businesses
(20237) units. A. Wasserstein
Environmental Justice/Climate Justice (20161) units. G. Torres
Environmental Protection Clinic: Policy and Advocacy (30164) units. D. Kysar,
D. Hawkins, R.G. Ramirez, and J. Skene
Family Law (20307) units. D. NeJaime
Federal Criminal Law (20298) units. K. Stith
Federal Income Taxation (20222) units. R. D’Avino
Federal Jurisdiction (20448) units. A.R. Amar
Financial Markets and Corporate Law Clinic (30211) units. J.R. Macey, B.L. Beirne,
and G. Fleming
Fall Courses
First Amendment (20450) units. R.C. Post
Game Theory in Action: From Poker to Business Negotiations (20186) units.
D. Singer
Health Justice Practicum (30186) to units. A. Kapczynski, G.S. Gonsalves,
A. Miller, and D. Newton
History and Theory of Secured Transactions: Seminar (20316) unit.
G.E. Brunstad Jr.
Housing and Community Development: Seminar (30122) units. A.S. Lemar and
J. Gentes
Housing Clinic: Fieldwork (30116) units. A.S. Lemar, J. Gentes, and T.S. Silverstein
Housing Connecticut: Developing Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhoods (30254)
units. A.S. Lemar, K. Cooney, A.S. Harwell, and A.J. Plattus
Human Rights Workshop: Current Issues and Events (20134) unit. P.W. Kahn and
J. Silk
Immigration Law (20547) units. L. Guttentag
Indigenous Self-Government in the U.S. Constitutional Order (20441) units.
G. Torres and J.T. Campbell
Intellectual Property: Working with Patents and Trade Secrets (20236) units.
V.A. Cundi
Intellectual Property: The Law and Political Economy of Scientific and Cultural
Production (20560) units. A. Kapczynski
Internal Investigations (20350) units. D.M. Zornow and N. Kestenbaum
International Humanitarian Law (20677) unit. I. Park
International Law (20112) units. A.U. Bâli
Interpersonal and Group Dynamics (20834) units, credit/ail. H. Brooks
Introduction to Talmudic Law: Seminar (20464) units. Z. Septimus
Is There an American Jurisprudence? (20128) or units. P.W. Kahn
Law and Psychology (20645) units. T.R. Tyler and A. Baskin-Sommers
Law, Economics, and Organization (20036) unit, credit/ail. I. Ayres
Legal Assistance: Gender Violence Clinic (30204) units. M. K. Burkle
Legal Assistance: Immigrant Rights Clinic: Seminar (30194) and Fieldwork (30195)
units or each component, units total. B. Haldeman and M. Abell
Legal Assistance: Reentry Clinic (30201) units. A. Eppler-Epstein and Y. Zamir
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Legal History Forum (20139) . unit, credit/ail ( unit, credit/ail or the entire year
i enrolled or both terms). J.Q. Whitman
Legal Theory Workshop Colloquium (20563) . unit. S. Moyn, A. Kapczynski,
I. Kohler-Hausmann, and T. Zhang
Legitimacy: Directed Research (20660) to units. T.R. Tyler
Local Government in Action: San Francisco Armative Litigation Project (30178)
units, with the option o additional units. H. Gerken and E. Sokolo-Rubin
Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic (30173) units. C.M. Flores and
H.R. Metcal
Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (30175) units. D.A. Schulz,
J.M. Balkin, S. Baron, J.A. Borg, D.S. Bralow, D.C. Dinielli, T. Raju, and
J.M. Schriner-Briggs
Medical Legal Partnerships (20097) units. A. Gluck, J.N. Bhandary-Alexander, and
E.B. Rock
Mental Health Justice Clinic (30255) and Fieldwork (30256) units each component.
M. Orihuela and D. Loehr
Originalism and the Living Constitution (20124) units. A.R. Amar and
S.G. Calabresi
Policing, Law, and Policy Clinic (30246) units. J. Camacho
Private Law Clinic (30253) units. D.S. Markovits and A.C. Miller
Professional Responsibility (20300) units. D. NeJaime
Property and Regulation (20207) units. D. Schleicher
Property, Natural Resources, Environmental Law, and Land Use: Supervised
Research (20202) to units. C.M. Rose
Property: Seminar (20013) units. C. Priest
Prosecution Externship and Instruction (30193) units. K. Stith, H. Cherry,
M.M. Donovan, J.N. Francis, and S.R. Garbarsky
Public Health Law (20595) or units. C.E. Haupt
Public Law Workshop (20378) or units. C.M. Rodríguez and R.B. Siegel
Race, Inequality, and the Law: Directed Research (20429) to units. M.C. Bell
Reading the Constitution: Method and Substance (20459) units. A.R. Amar
Religion and the Constitution(s): Contrasting Models (20572) units. P. Weil
Reproductive Rights and Justice Project Seminar (30226) and Fieldwork (30229)
units each component. R.B. Siegel, G.E. Scott, and P.J. Smith
Spring Courses
Research Methods in Judicial History (20585) unit. N. Mignanelli and
M. VanderHeijden
Research Methods in Statutory and Regulatory Law (20470) unit.
J.G. Krishnaswami
Robber Barons Reconsidered (20630) units. G.L. Priest
Secured Transactions (20317) units. G.E. Brunstad Jr.
Seeing Solitary: Directed Research in a Liman Center Project (20632) Units to be
arranged. J. Resnik, P. Kebriaei, and J. Taylor
Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights (20568) units. A.R. Miller
States Litigating Nationwide Wrongs (20342) units. D. Nachman
Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic (30180) units. C. Rotheld, S. Hogarth, P. Hughes,
M. Kimberly, and A. Lyons-Berg
Think Like a (Start-up) Founder (20680) units. G.A. Stewart
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Brown v. Board of Education (20413) units. J. Driver
Torts and Regulation (20557) units. D. Kysar
Twenty-first Century Tax Policy Challenges for the U.S. (20049) or units.
M.J. Graetz
[The] Unilateral Executive (20419) or units. J.L. Mashaw
Veterans Legal Services Clinic (30123) and Fieldwork (30124) units or each
part, graded or credit/ail at student option ( units total) M.J. Wishnie and
N.N. Friedlander
Work and Gender (20398) units. V. Schultz
Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (30127) and Fieldwork (30128)
units or each part, graded or credit/ail at student option ( units total).
M.J. Wishnie and K.B. Tyrrell
Advanced Courses
Access to Law School: Fieldwork (21623) units. J. Forman Jr. and K.I. Vinson
Access to Law School: Seminar (21622) units. J. Forman Jr. and K.I. Vinson
Administrative Law (21199) units. B.E. Emerson
Administrative Law (21601) units. N.R. Parrillo
Administrative Law and Bureaucracy: Supervised Research (21684) or units.
N.R. Parrillo
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Advanced Access to Law School: Fieldwork (21624) to units. J. Forman Jr. and
K.I. Vinson
Advanced Appellate Litigation Project (30200) units. D.R. Roth and T.A. Dooley
Advanced Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic: Fieldwork (30146) or units.
M.S. Gohara, K.M. Barrett, C. Levenson, and D. Loehr
Advanced Climate, Animals, Food, and Environment Law and Policy Lab (30242)
to units. J.R. Lovvorn, D. Bray, and V.W. Morris
Advanced Community and Economic Development: Fieldwork (30132) or units.
A.S. Lemar and C.F. Muckenuss III
Advanced Deals Workshop: Public Company Mergers and Acquisitions (21511)
units. I. Kirman
Advanced Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic: Fieldwork (30238) to units.
S. Riethmueller
Advanced Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic: Seminar (30237) unit.
S. Riethmueller
Advanced Environmental Protection Clinic (30165) to units. R.G. Ramirez,
D.G. Hawkins, J.L. Skene, and L. Suatoni
Advanced Free Exercise Clinic (30153) or units. K. Stith and M.A. Heland
Advanced Housing and Community Development Seminar (30332) unit, credit/
ail. A.S. Lemar and J. Gentes
Advanced Housing Clinic: Fieldwork (30151) to units. A.S Lemar, J. Gentes, and
T.S. Silverstein
Advanced International Refugee Assistance Project (30171) or units. M. Prabhu,
A. Majeed, and S.T. Poellot
Advanced Legal Assistance: Immigrant Rights Clinic Fieldwork (30203) to units.
B.M. Haldeman and M. Abell
Advanced Legal Assistance: Reentry Clinic: Fieldwork (30202) to units.
A. Eppler-Epstein and Y.E. Zamir
Advanced Legal Research: Methods and Sources (21027-01) or units.
J. Krishnaswami
Advanced Legal Research: Methods and Sources (21027-02) or units. J. Nann
Advanced Legal Writing (21343) units. R. Harrison
Advanced Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic Fieldwork (30274) to
units. C.M. Flores and H.R. Metcal
Spring Courses
Advanced Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic Seminar (30174) unit.
C.M. Flores and H.R. Metcal
Advanced Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (30176) to units.
D.A. Schulz, J.M. Balkin, S. Baron, J.A. Borg, D.S. Bralow, D.C. Dinielli, T. Raju,
J.M. Schriner-Briggs, and S.J. Shapiro
Advanced Medical Legal Partnerships (21098) to units. A.R. Gluck,
J.N. Bhandary-Alexander, and E.B. Rock
Advanced Mental Health Justice Clinic: Fieldwork (30257) to units. M. Orihuela
and D. Loehr
Advanced Policing, Law, and Policy Clinic (30249) units. J.X. Camacho
Advanced Reproductive Rights and Justice Project: Fieldwork (30231) to units.
R.B. Siegel, G.E. Scott, and P.J. Smith
Advanced Reproductive Rights and Justice Project: Seminar (30230) unit.
R.B. Siegel, G.E. Scott, and P.J. Smith
Advanced San Francisco Armative Litigation Project (30179) to units.
H.K. Gerken and E.R. Sokolo-Rubin
Advanced Strategic Advocacy Clinic (30248) or units. A.P. Gilbert and
I.B. Kohler-Hausmann
Advanced Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic (30181) units. C.A. Rotheld,
S.P. Hogarth, P.W. Hughes, M.B. Kimberly, and A.A. Lyons-Berg
Advanced Veterans Legal Services Clinic: Fieldwork (30126) to units.
M.J. Wishnie and N.N. Friedlander
Advanced Veterans Legal Services Clinic: Seminar (30125) unit, credit/ail.
M.J. Wishnie and N.N. Friedlander
Advanced Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic: Fieldwork (30130) to
units. M.J. Wishnie and K.B. Tyrrell
Advanced Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic: Seminar (30129) unit,
credit/ail. M.J. Wishnie and K.B. Tyrrell
Advocacy in International Arbitration (30212) units. A.C. Reyes, B. Graham, and
J.M. Landy
Aggregate Litigation (21718) units. E.J. Cabraser
American Economic Policy (21342) units. N.R. Sarin
American Politics, The Law, and The Culture of Self-Government (21530) units.
A.T. Kronman and D. Bromwich
Antitrust (21068) units. A.K. Klevorick
Yale Law School 2023–2024
[The] Art of Argument (21619) units. E.C. Bazelon and L. Caplan
Behavioral Law and Economics and Legal Policy (21649) to units. C.M. Jolls
Brain Injury, Medical Ethics, Disability Rights: Directed Research (21471) or
units. A.R. Gluck
Business Organizations (21274) units. R. Romano
Business Organizations (21418) units. J.D. Morley
Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, and Disadvantage (21426) units. S.B. Bright
Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic: Seminar (30135) and Fieldwork (30136)
units, each component (our units total) M.S. Gohara, K.M. Barrett, C. Levenson,
and D. Loehr
Civil Pretrial Litigation (21055) units. C. Silver
Climate, Animals, Food, and Environment Law and Policy Lab (30241) units.
J.R. Lovvorn, D. Bray, and V.W. Morris
Community and Economic Development: Fieldwork (30131) units. A.S. Lemar and
C.F. Muckenuss III
Comparative Sentencing: Theory and Practice (21258) units. R.C. Coey
Confronting America’s Constitutional Crisis (21390) to units. B.A. Ackerman
Constitutional Litigation Seminar (21219) units. G. Calabresi and W. Nardini
Constitutional Litigation Seminar (21345) units. J.A. Meyer and S.L. Carney
Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy (21490) units. D.C. Esty
Corporate Finance in Modern Society (21507) units. K. Shue
Corporate Litigation Seminar (21397) or units. K.S. Schwartz
Corruption, Accountable Government, and Democracy (21042) or units.
S. Rose-Ackerman
Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic: Fieldwork (30149) units. M.S. Gohara, D. Loehr,
and M. Orihuela
Criminal Justice Clinic: Seminar (30105) and Fieldwork (30106) units each
component (our units total). F.M. Doherty and S. Bruce
Criminal Procedure: Investigation (21667) units. J. Rubeneld
Critical Role of the General Counsel (21451) units. P. Gentin and J.D. Schwartz
Election Law (21567) units. J.J. Inranca
Empirical Legal Research (21492) unit, credit/ail. A.J. Jakubow
Spring Courses
Employment and Labor Law (21136) units. C.M. Jolls
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic: Seminar (30234) and Fieldwork (30236)
units each component (our units total). S. Riethmueller
Environmental Protection Clinic: Policy and Advocacy (30164) units.
R.G. Ramirez, D.G. Hawkins, J.L. Skene, and L. Suatoni
Everyday Leadership (21834) units, credit/ail. H. Brooks
Evidence (21142) units. D.M. Kahan
Evidence (21277) units. S.L. Carter
Federal and State Courts in a Federal System (21124) units. J. Resnik
Federal Income Taxation (21050) or units. A.L. Alstott
Federal Indian Law (21739) units. G. Torres
Financial Accounting (21474) units. R. Antle
First Amendment (21230) units. J.M. Balkin
Foundations of American Legal Thought (21414) units. J.F. Witt and R.C. Post
Free Exercise Clinic: Fieldwork (30144) unit. K. Stith and M.A. Heland
Free Exercise Clinic: Seminar (30143) units. K. Stith and M.A. Heland
Health Justice Practicum (30186) to units. A.N. Kapczynski, G.S. Gonsalves,
A. Miller, and D. Newton
History of the Common Law: Procedure and Institutions (21531) units.
J.H. Langbein
Housing and Community Development: Seminar (30122) units. A.S. Lemar and
J. Gentes
Housing Clinic: Fieldwork (30116) units. A.S Lemar, J. Gentes, and T.S. Silverstein
Human Rights Workshop: Labor and Leisure (21193) unit , credit/ail. C.M. Flores
and H.R. Metcal
Imprisoned: Conception, Construction, Abolition, Alternatives (Liman Workshop)
(21534) or units, credit/ail. J. Resnik, P. Kebriaei, and J.R. Taylor
Intellectual Property (21167) units. I. Ayres
International Business Transactions (21209) units. A. Chua
International Capital Markets: Law and Institutions (21593) units. C. Jordan
International Human Rights Law (21403) units. A.U. Bâli
International Law (21763) units. O.A. Hathaway
Yale Law School 2023–2024
International Refugee Assistance Project (30170) units. M. Prabhu, A. Majeed, and
S.T. Poellot
International Trade Law and Policy: Seminar (21635) units. D.C. Esty and
G. Horlick
Internet Law (21422) units. C. Mulligan
Introduction to Legal Research Methods and Sources (21486) unit, credit/ail.
N. Mignanelli
Issues in Financial Regulation: Focus on Financial Technology (21270) units.
S.T. Omarova
Land Use (21117) units. J.J. Inranca
Language and Power: Seminar (21178) units. J. Stanley, C. Arun, and J.M. Balkin
Law and Macroeconomics: Seminar (21156) units. Y.J. Listokin
Law and Political Economy (21299) or units, credit/ail with a graded option.
A.N. Kapczynski
Law and Regulation of Banks and Other Financial Intermediaries (21171) or
units. J.R. Macey
Law and the Legal System through the Lens of Latina/o Communities (21304) to
units. D. Lopez
Law in Contemporary Poetry (21478) or units. M.C. Bell
Law, Economics, and Organization (21041) unit, credit/ail. I. Ayres
Legal Assistance: Gender Violence Clinic (30204) units. M.K. Burkle
Legal Assistance: Immigrant Rights Clinic: Seminar (30194) and Fieldwork (30195)
units each component ( units total). B.M. Haldeman and M. Abell
Legal Assistance: Reentry Clinic (30201) units. A. Eppler-Epstein and Y.E. Zamir
Legal History Forum (21139) . unit, credit/ail. T. Zhang
Legal Theory Workshop Colloquium (21556) . unit, credit/ail. S. Moyn,
A.N. Kapczynski, I.B. Kohler-Hausmann, and T. Zhang
Legal Writing II (21710) units. N.A. Messing
Litigation Strategy: Procedure in Pursuit of the Endgame (21338) units.
G.A. Zweiach
Local Government in Action: San Francisco Armative Litigation Project (30178)
units. H.K. Gerken and E.R. Sokolo-Rubin
Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic (30173) units. C.M. Flores and
H.R. Metcal
Spring Courses
Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (30175) units.
D.A. Schulz, J.M. Balkin, S. Baron, J.A. Borg, D.S. Bralow, D.C. Dinielli, T. Raju,
J.M. Schriner-Briggs, and S.J. Shapiro
Medical Legal Partnerships (21097) units. A.R. Gluck, J.N. Bhandary-Alexander,
and E.B. Rock
Mental Health Justice Clinic: Seminar (30255) and Fieldwork (30256) units, each
component ( units total). M. Orihuela and D. Loehr
Military Justice (21678) units. E.R. Fidell
Negotiating and Draing Secured Transactions (30239) units. G.E. Brunstad Jr.
Normative, Legal, and Empirical Analyses of Discrimination (21789) or units.
I.B. Kohler-Hausmann
Partnership Taxation (21582) units. N.B. Cunningham
Philosophy of Law: Analytical Jurisprudence (21275) units. S.J. Shapiro
Policing, Law, and Policy Clinic (30246) units. J.X. Camacho
Private Law Clinic (30253) units. D.S. Markovits and A.C. Miller
Professional Responsibility (21297) units. J. Katz
Professional Responsibility (21382) units. D.P. Atkins
Property (21017) units. T. Zhang
Prosecution Externship and Instruction (30193) units. K. Stith, H. Cherry,
M.M. Donovan, J.N. Francis, and S.R. Garbarsky
Public Leadership and Policymaking (21726) or units. C.M. Rodríguez
Race, Inequality, and the Law: Directed Research (21429) to units. M.C. Bell
Reproductive Rights and Justice Project: Seminar (30226) and Fieldwork (30229)
units each component. R.B. Siegel, G.E. Scott, and P.J. Smith
Research Methods in Foreign and International Law (21487) units, credit/ail.
L. Olejnikova and E. Ma
Rights of Nature, Human Rights and the Arts (21668) units. J. Silk and D. Bonilla
Securities Regulation (21065) units. S.T. Omarova
Seeing Solitary: Directed Research in a Liman Center Project (21596) or units.
J. Resnik, P. Kebriaei, and J.R. Taylor
Seminar in Private Law: Globalization and Deglobalization at the Nexus of Public
and Private Law (21497) or units. D.S. Markovits
Social Justice (21260) units. B.A. Ackerman
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Statutory Interpretation in the Regulatory State (21722) units. W.N. Eskridge Jr.
Strategic Advocacy Clinic (30245) units. I.B. Kohler-Hausmann and A.P. Gilbert
Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic (30180) units. C.A. Rotheld, S.P. Hogarth,
P.W. Hughes, M.B. Kimberly, and A.A. Lyons-Berg
Technology in the Practice of Law (21620) unit, credit/ail. F. Cadmus
The English-Speaking Enlightenment (21174) units. A.T. Kronman and S.B. Smith
The Lawyer as Leader (21664) or units. H.H. Koh and B.W. Heineman
The Russo-Ukrainian War (21539) units. E.R. Fidell and M.M. Donovan
The Supreme Court and the Modern Establishment Clause (21213) units.
M.A. Heland
Theories of Statutory Interpretation: Seminar (21464) or units. W.N. Eskridge Jr.
Third World Approaches to International Law: Seminar (21149) units. A.U. Bâli
Torts and Regulation (21608) units. J.F. Witt
Torts and Regulation (21610) units. K. Ramakrishnan
Trial Practice (30199) units, credit/ail. C. Silver
U.S. Foreign Relations and National Security Law (21247) units. H.H. Koh
U.S. International Taxation (21100) units. J.M. Samuels
Veterans Legal Services Clinic (30123) and Fieldwork (30124) units or each
part ( units total), graded or credit/ail at student option. M.J. Wishnie and
N.N. Friedlander
White Collar Criminal Defense: Critical Issues and Strategies (21430) units.
K. Stith and D.M. Zornow
Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy: Seminar (30127) and Fieldwork (30128)
units or each part ( units total), graded or credit/ail at student option.
M.J. Wishnie and K.B. Tyrrell
Lecture Programs and
Other Academic Opportunities
The regular curriculum at Yale Law School is augmented by a host o events that enrich
legal education and scholarship. Distinguished speakers—lawyers, judges, public fig-
ures, government ocials, scholars, and other prominent individuals—are invited by
aculty members, student organizations, and academic programs within the School to
give talks or participate in panel discussions on a wide variety o topics throughout the
year. Conerences sponsored or cosponsored by the School or by its aculty or students
address issues o legal import both here and abroad. Additionally, an abundant resource
o endowed unds allows the School to invite many specially designated ellows who
not only give lectures but also spend time mentoring students with similar academic or
proessional interests.
A sampling o the endowed lecture programs rom the – academic year ollows:
The Robert P. Anderson Memorial Lecture provides a orum or distinguished judges to
speak on matters o general importance to law and society. Justice Pro. Dr. Susanne
Baer o the German Constitutional Court and Italian Minister o Justice Marta Cartabia
delivered the – Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship Lecture, titled “The
Challenges to Constitutionalism.”
The Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice and the Gruber Distinguished Lecture
in Women’s Rights are signature lectures eaturing speakers whose exceptional achieve-
ments have served the causes o global justice and women’s rights. Lynsey Addario, a
photojournalist who has covered conflict zones around the globe, delivered the
Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice, titled “O Love and War.” Sara Nelson,
international president o the Association o Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, deliv-
ered the Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women’s Rights, titled “Women and
Unions: Solidarity Is a Force Stronger than Gravity.”
The John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship brings to the Law School a leading
expert in securities law or accounting or business enterprises to deliver a public lecture.
Joshua D. Rauh, the Ormond Family Proessor o Finance at Stanord Graduate School
o Business, delivered the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture, titled
“Regulating Investment Management and Retirement Plans in the Age o ESG.”
The James A. Thomas Lectures are given by scholars whose work addresses the concerns
o communities or groups currently marginalized within the legal academy or society
at large. Randall Kennedy, author and the Michael R. Klein Proessor at Harvard Law
School, delivered the Thomas Lecture, titled “From Protest to Law: Triumps and Deeats
in Struggles or Racial Justice, –.”
The Judge Ralph K. Winter Lectureship on Corporate Law and Governance supports lectures
on corporate law and governance and related topics. Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles
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W. Eliot University Proessor and Proessor Emeritus o Harvard University, delivered
the – Judge Ralph K. Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance, titled
“Inflation Risks or America and the Global Economy.”
Other named lecture and ellowship programs at Yale Law School include the ollowing:
The Timothy B. Atkeson Environmental Practitioner in Residence Program brings to the Law
School practitioners rom a variety o environmental law practice settings to lecture,
teach seminars, and counsel students on career opportunities.
The Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights are awarded annually to
two Yale Law School graduates pursuing projects devoted to the advancement o human
rights around the world.
The Robert M. Cover Lectureship in Law and Religion brings speakers to Yale to explore
the historical, philosophical, sociological, and literary intersections between law and
religion.
The Ralph Gregory Elliot First Amendment Lectureship provides or lectures, preerably
on an annual basis, on some aspect o the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The John Hart Ely Fellowship Lecture on Professional Responsibility highlights research and
teaching in the field o ethics and proessional responsibility.
The Fowler Harper Memorial Fund and Fellowship brings to Yale Law School a prominent
person who has made a distinguished contribution to the public lie o the nation.
The Samuel and Ronnie ’72 Heyman Lecture on Public Service is part o a gi that also
supports the Heyman Federal Public Service Fellowship Program.
The Arthur Allen Le Fellowship brings to Yale Law School individuals whose work in
other disciplines illuminates the study o law and legal institutions.
The Charles S. Mechem, Jr. Fellowship provides or lectures and other presentations by
senior corporate executives to oster an understanding o decision-making in the busi-
ness environment.
The Judge Jon O. Newman Lectureship supports an annual lecture in global justice, or
public international, human rights, or comparative law, by a distinguished individual
who is not a citizen o, and does not reside in, the United States.
The Robert H. Preiskel and Leon Silverman Program on the Practicing Lawyer and the Public
Interest sponsors lectures and other events celebrating private lawyers’ contributions to
the public interest.
The Sherrill Lectureship brings distinguished visitors with special expertise in problems
o international law and international relations.
The Storrs Lectures, established in , constitute one o Yale Law School’s oldest and
most prestigious lecture programs. They are given annually by a prominent scholar who
discusses undamental problems o law and jurisprudence.
Lecture Programs and Other Academic Opportunities
Yale Law School is shaped by the intellectual interests o its aculty and students. Those
interests find expression not only in the established curriculum and other academic
opportunities, but also in new activities that emerge rom time to time.
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Part o The Tsai Leadership Program at Yale Law School, the Michael S. and Alexa B.
Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership provides ocused educational and proes
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sional development to Yale Law School students who aspire to nontraditional careers
and leadership roles in the private sector. The Chae Initiative helps prepare students or
careers in areas such as business, finance, investing, management consulting, and entre-
preneurship. The Chae Initiative advises students as they master the intellectual ounda-
tions o numeracy through courses such as financial modeling, statistics, accounting,
and data science. The Chae Initiative also supports proessional development through
programming on the values, ethics, skills, and theories o management and leadership
across a wide spectrum o private sector organizations. The Chae Initiative is premised
on the notion that a law degree is an all-purpose thinking and problem-solving degree
and provides a crucial oundation that will serve graduates or many business leadership
roles. More inormation is available at: https://law.yale.edu/leadership/private-sector.
The Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) is a program hosted jointly by Yale Law
School and Yale School o Public Health that tackles contemporary problems at the
interace o global health, human rights, and social justice. The GHJP is pioneering
an innovative, interdisciplinary field o scholarship, teaching, and practice, bringing
together diverse thought leaders to collaborate on research, policy projects, and academic
exchanges.
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The Gruber Program at the Law School consists o our core components: () the
Global Constitutionalism Seminar, () a distinguished lecture series, () postgraduate
ellowship program, and () support or clinical and experiential learning initiatives.
The Global Constitutionalism Seminar is an annual event in which Supreme Court
and constitutional court judges rom around the world meet with aculty members to
discuss issues o common concern. The two Gruber Distinguished Lectures in Global
Justice and Women’s Rights are signature lectures eaturing pathbreakers in those fields.
The lectures are oen accompanied by complementary events, which may include panel
discussions, aculty workshops, and class visits. The Gruber Fellowships in Global
Justice and Women’s Rights allow recent graduates o Yale graduate and proessional
schools to spend a year working on practice-based projects o their own design in the
fields o global justice and/or women’s rights. Through the Gruber Project or Global
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Justice and Women’s Rights, the program also supports a number o hands-on clinical
and experiential learning opportunities, including a pilot one or “visiting practitioners
in residence.” Gruber Project initiatives have included litigation and policy advocacy on
behal o reugees, asylum seekers, domestic violence survivors, global health justice
issues, workers rights, reproductive justice, and emale veterans.
The Inormation Society Project (ISP) is an intellectual center ounded in by
Proessor Jack Balkin. Over the past twenty years, the ISP has grown into a tightly knit
community working to illuminate the complex relationships between law, technology,
and society. The ISP hosts a core group o resident ellows, visiting ellows, Yale aculty,
and student ellows; it also maintains an international network o aliated ellows. The
ISP promotes discussions through its speaker series, ideas lunches, and conerences; it
also influences the development o law and policy through clinical work, amicus bries,
white papers, and scholarship. Additionally, the ISP is an umbrella organization or
a range o initiatives, including () the Abrams Institute or Freedom o Expression,
which supports research on First Amendment reedoms o speech and press and pro-
motes engagement between academics and legal practitioners; () the Media Freedom
and Inormation Access (MFIA) Clinic, which brings litigation to promote reedom o
speech, reedom o the press, and government accountability and transparency; () the
Knight Law and Media Program, which sponsors law and media programming; () the
Wikimedia/YLS Initiative on Intermediaries and Inormation, which generates aware-
ness o and research on issues relevant to the global open Internet; () Privacy Lab, a
nexus or workshops and discussions about soware, hardware, and spectrum reedom;
() the Knight Digital Public Sphere initiative, which supports research and program-
ming at the intersection o online discourse and democracy; () the Majority World
Initiative (MWI) which will support social media governance scholars rom the Majority
World, commonly reerred to as the Global South; and () the Program or the Study o
Reproductive Justice (PSRJ), which sponsors academic research on reproductive health
issues and supports young scholars interested in academic or advocacy careers. More
inormation on the ISP and its work is available at https://law.yale.edu/isp.
The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School is a group o nationally recognized academ-
ics, researchers, and social scientists rom Yale and beyond who have joined together to
build a more just, eective, and democratic criminal legal system by advancing public
policies that are scientifically proven to build strong and sae communities where all
citizens can thrive. Our interdisciplinary network spans departments and includes
academics, doctors, lawyers, historians, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and
political scientists.
The research findings o The Justice Collaboratory, derived rom a strict adherence to
the scientific method, are the basis or the proven theoretical oundations that can trans-
orm historically underserved communities to ones o vitality, opportunity, and justice
or all citizens. The Justice Collaboratory is also home to the Social Media Governance
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Initiative, which aims to create an online environment that benefits society. For more
inormation on aliated Yale aculty, courses, ellowships, and projects, please visit
https://www.justicehappenshere.yale.edu.
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The Abdallah S. Kamel Center or the Study o Islamic Law and Civilization is an aca-
demic endeavor entirely devoted to improving the understanding o Islamic law and civi-
lization by organizing interdisciplinary discussions with leading scholars and thinkers
and supporting the research o promising junior scholars. It brings prominent scholars
o Islam and fields related to Islamic civilization to Yale Law School or public lectures
and seminars, and it sponsors resident research ellowships. The center is directed by
Proessors Aslı Bâli, Owen Fiss, and Anthony Kronman and serves the entire university.
For more inormation on the center’s activities, including the Abdallah S. Kamel Lectures
on Islamic Law and Civilization, visit https://law.yale.edu/kamel.
The Law and Racial Justice Center (RJC) brings together New Haveners; Yale students,
sta, and aculty; local government ocials; and local and national experts to imagine
and implement projects that advance racial justice. The center aspires to work together in
community, collaborate across disciplines, and create opportunities or student-centered
experiential learning. The RJC’s signature program, Access to Law School, is an innova-
tive law school pipeline program designed or people rom the New Haven area who are
first generation, low-income, ormerly incarcerated, or members o an under-represented
racial group who are considering attending law school. This all seventeen ellows rom
our first two cohorts will be enrolled in law school at places like Quinnipiac University,
UC-Berkeley, UConn, University o Vermont, and Yale. For more inormation, visit
https://law.yale.edu/centers-workshops/law-and-racial-justice-center.
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The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School is a multidisciplinary
think-and-do tank dedicated to developing new legal and policy strategies to address
animal exploitation and its impacts on the living world, and to drawing attention to the
urgent practical, legal, and moral questions raised by humanity’s treatment o animals
and their habitats.
LEAP leads a diverse program o activities that empower students and scholars at
Yale to drive positive change or animals, people, and the environment upon which they
depend. The program includes academic courses; research and policy work; the Climate,
Animal, Food, and Environmental Law & Policy Lab (CAFE Lab), a unique curricular
oering in which students work with experts to develop new legal and political strategies
to address the multiple externalized costs o industrial animal agriculture; a student
ellows program, with active support or student research projects and publications;
regular lectures, panels, roundtables, and events that bring leading thinkers—including
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lawmakers, scholars, scientists, artists, journalists, and advocates—to Yale’s campus to
inspire and inorm the program’s work; and the “When We Talk About Animals” pod-
cast series. LEAP’s work is highly interdisciplinary, and it oen partners with schools,
departments, and other centers and programs across Yale University and beyond. More
inormation is available at https://law.yale.edu/animals.
The Arthur Liman Center or Public Interest Law promotes access to justice and the air
treatment o individuals and communities. Through its research, teaching, ellowships,
and colloquia, the Liman Center helps develop diverse initiatives to bring about more
just legal systems.
The Liman Center hosts the Liman Workshop, a seminar taught in the spring o each
year; topics vary and have included “Racial Justice and Immigrants’ Rights,” “Criminal
Systems at a Crossroads,” and “Imprisoned: From Conception and Construction to Abo-
lition.” In addition, Liman Center aculty collaborate with students on another seminar,
Research or Reorm, to do innovative research that inorms contemporary challenges in
legal systems. For example, projects have included research on the use o solitary confine-
ment, on the impact o liens imposed on individuals who are incarcerated, and on access
to voting or people in detention. The Liman Center also hosts an annual colloquium to
bring together scholars, students, lawyers, social scientists, and other experts to address
issues in criminal and civil law reorm and in legal education.
Each year, the Center awards several Liman Fellowships to Yale Law School graduates
to spend a year working in the public interest at host organization around the United
States. In addition, the Center supports Liman Summer Fellowships, provided to stu-
dents at Barnard College, Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, Harvard University,
Princeton University, Spelman College, Stanord University, and Yale University. The
Liman Center is also home to in-residence Fellows, who join in teaching and research at
the university.
Part o The Tsai Leadership Program at Yale Law School, the Carol and Gene Ludwig
Program in Public Sector Leadership provides ocused educational and proessional
support to Yale Law students who aspire to nontraditional careers and leadership roles
in the public sector. The Ludwig Program helps prepare students or careers in areas
such as government, nonprofits, and other institutions ocused on serving the public.
The mission o the Ludwig Program is to ensure that Yale Law students are capable o
translating principle into practice; can display a firm grasp o the political, economic,
civic, and operational dimensions o policy work; and are well-equipped to engage in
ethical reflection and decision-making. The Ludwig Program is premised on the notion
that those who serve in the public sector should be flexible, broad-gauged thinkers who
make empirically grounded decisions and are deeply committed to a vibrant democracy
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and the well-being o others. More inormation is available at: https://law.yale.edu/
leadership/public-sector.
The Middle East Legal Studies Seminar is an annual meeting convened by the Law
School in a Middle East country or nearby venue. Occasionally the seminar meets in
New Haven. It was created to provide a orum in which influential scholars and opin-
ion leaders rom the legal communities o the Middle East could exchange ideas and
orm productive working relationships. Every year, roughly sixty lawyers, judges, and
academics rom the region meet with Yale proessors and students to discuss an agreed-
upon topic o common importance. Recent topics have included the concept o political
legitimacy, history and identity, and the causes and consequences o current unrest in the
Middle East. For additional inormation, contact bradley[email protected].
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The Olin Center or Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy is designed to acilitate
the scholarly interests o the many distinguished law and economics scholars at Yale,
including Proessors Ackerman, Alstott, Ayres, Calabresi, Ellickson, Hansmann, Jolls,
Klevorick, Kronman, Liscow, Listokin, Macey, Markovits, Morley, Mashaw, C. Priest,
G. Priest, Romano, Rose, Rose-Ackerman, Schleicher, Schuck, Schwartz, and Zhang.
The center supports the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; a Working Paper
Series; and the Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop, at which scholars rom
Yale and other institutions present papers or student and aculty criticism. The center
also provides an umbrella or two programs: the Program in Civil Liability, established to
promote comprehensive reanalysis o the modern law o torts, products liability, proes-
sional malpractice, insurance, and other subjects related to our civil liability system;
and the Program or Studies in Capitalism, which supports research on the operation o
capitalism as a mechanism o economic growth, the ethical bases o capitalism, and the
relation between capitalism and the poor, and between capitalism and democracy. The
center’s codirectors are Proessors George L. Priest and Susan Rose-Ackerman.
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The Schell Center oers law students and graduates diverse opportunities to apply the
lessons they are learning in the classroom to urther the cause o human rights and to
examine human rights practice critically. It also brings critical human rights discussion
to the wider university community. Throughout the academic year, the Schell Center
sponsors lectures, panels, symposia, and inormal discussions on a wide range o human
rights issues, including the weekly Human Rights Workshop and the annual Bernstein
Symposium. The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic oers
hands-on experience to work with partner organizations around the globe. Outside o
the clinic, students have the opportunity to engage in human rights work through the
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Lowenstein Project, a student-run organization, and the center’s visiting ellows, who
include renowned human rights advocates and scholars rom diverse backgrounds.
The center provides ellowship opportunities or summer and postgraduate human
rights experience. Kirby Simon Summer Human Rights Fellowships und students
spending all or part o the summer engaged in human rights internships or research.
Kirby Simon Fellowships have supported summer human rights work in ninety-seven
countries to date. The Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights,
inaugurated in , unds several recent Yale Law School graduates annually or a
year o ull-time human rights advocacy work. The Robina Foundation Human Rights
Fellowship supports postgraduate work at appropriate international or oreign courts
and tribunals and intergovernmental human rights agencies. To date, the Bernstein and
Robina Fellowships have unded graduates to pursue human rights work aer law
school.
The directors o the Schell Center are Proessors Claudia M. Flores, Paul W. Kahn,
and James J. Silk. The executive director is Hope Metcal. The Schell Center’s email
address is [email protected].
The Solomon Center or Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is the first o its kind
to ocus on the intersection o law and the governance, business, and practice o health
care in the United States. The center brings together leading experts and practitioners
rom the public and private sectors to address cutting-edge questions o health law and
policy, and to train the next generation o top health lawyers, industry leaders, policy
makers, and academics.
The center was established to meet a critical need or a new academic and legal-
proessional discipline that responds to the rapidly evolving environment o health care
and its centrality in the nation’s economy and government. The center’s programming
includes many course oerings, both academic and experiential; career planning; aca-
demic research, policy work, and litigation bries; and numerous high-profile panels and
conerences that bring academic, government, and business leaders in health care to the
Law School. It hosts academic visitors rom all disciplines to enrich its programming and
course oerings and to actively support student research, fieldwork, and publications.
The center also helps coordinate eight Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLPs) that combine
health and legal services at a single site o care or underprivileged populations and give
students legal experience directly in the medical setting. The Yale Health Law & Policy
Society (YHeLPS), the student arm o the center, is an active partner in events and stu-
dent programming. More inormation is available at https://law.yale.edu/solomon-center.
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The Joseph C. Tsai Leadership Program at Yale Law School provides students with
expanded curricular and co-curricular oerings to ensure the next generation o dynamic
leaders have the knowledge and proessional training required to conront and embrace
the biggest challenges o an ever-evolving world. Additions to the curriculum include
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numeracy courses such as accounting, corporate finance, and statistics; ethical decision-
making; and emerging issues related to technological change, big data, and globalization.
Students are able to hone proessional management skills through specialized intensives,
boot camps, and workshops. The Program also brings mentors-in-residence to campus
to advise students on the many paths available to a graduate o Yale Law School, harness
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ing the power o the Yale Law School alumni community. Program opportunities are
open to every Yale Law student, no matter what career path they choose. More inorma-
tion is available at https://law.yale.edu/leadership.
Founded by Proessor Paul Gewirtz in as the China Law Center, the Paul Tsai
China Center is the primary home or activities related to China at Yale Law School.
The center is a unique institution dedicated to helping advance China’s legal reorms,
contributing to the development o U.S.-China relations, and increasing understanding
o China in the United States. In interaction with research and teaching at Yale, the center
works collaboratively with top experts in Chinese universities, government, and civil
society on projects in areas such as judicial reorm, administrative and regulatory reorm,
antidiscrimination, criminal justice, and other aspects o public interest law. The center’s
work also includes a range o eorts on U.S.-China relations more broadly, including
analyzing and recommending U.S. government policies and leading dialogues with
Chinese counterparts that bring together ormer senior government ocials and top
experts rom both countries to address a broad range o economic, security, and political
issues in the U.S.-China relationship. Areas o ocus include multilateral diplomacy with
U.S. allies and partners, technology and trade policy, Asia-Pacific regional security issues,
and human rights policies, among others. As the oundation o all these projects, the
center sta undertakes teaching, research, and writing that seek to contribute to the
education and training o a younger generation and more widely advance understanding
o China and U.S.-China relations. Yale Law School students are involved in all aspects
o the center’s work.
In March , Yale Law School received a gi o million in honor o its distin-
guished alumnus, the late Dr. Paul C. Tsai ’ LL.M., ’ J.S.D., to support the continuing
work o the Law School’s China Center. This gi was given by his son, Joseph C. Tsai
’ B.A.,’ J.D. In recognition o this gi, the center was renamed the Paul Tsai China
Center.
More inormation is available at https://law.yale.edu/china-center.
The Yale Center or Environmental Law & Policy, a joint undertaking between Yale
Law School and Yale School o the Environment, seeks to advance resh thinking and
analytically rigorous approaches to environmental decision-making across disciplines,
sectors, and scales. In addition to its research activities, the center also aims to oster
discussion and collaboration across the Yale campus on environmental law and policy
issues at the local, regional, national, and global levels. Current projects include the
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biennial Environmental Perormance Index (http://epi.yale.edu), which ranks coun-
tries on their sustainability perormance across eleven policy categories covering both
environmental public health and ecosystem vitality; the Global Commons Stewardship
Index (https://resources.unsdsn.org/global-commons-stewardship-index-2021), which ranks
countries based on their impact on the shared resources o the Global Commons; the
Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (https://cbey.yale.edu/yale-initiative-on-sustainable-
finance-yisf); and Remaking the Global Trading System or a Sustainable Future (https://
remakingtradeproject.org). Additional research themes include sustainable investing and
ESG reporting, corporate sustainability metrics, rethinking environmental protection or
the twenty-first century, corporate sustainability strategy, and global governance. The
center also plays a role in leading a major YSE initiative, Yale Environmental Dialogue,
that aims to promote conversations on challenging sustainability issues with a goal o
bridging political divides. For additional inormation on the center, please visit https://
envirocenter.yale.edu.
The Yale Center or Law and Philosophy was ounded in as a joint venture o
the Law School and the Yale Philosophy department. It aims to encourage advanced
work, including research degrees, at the interace o philosophy and law. Members o
both aculties are aliated with the center, as are a number o visitors. The center’s
programs include regular workshops and conerences, attracting leading philosophers
o law rom around the world. The center supports a postdoctoral ellowship, which
provides substantial unding or research. The center also helps to coordinate courses
across the Law School and the Philosophy department. Proessor Scott Shapiro is
the director. More inormation is available at https://law.yale.edu/centers-workshops/
yale-center-law-and-philosophy.
The Yale Law School Center or Global Legal Challenges bridges the divide between
the legal academy and legal practice on global legal issues. It provides a orum where
academic experts and students regularly interact with public and private sector actors
responsible or addressing global legal challenges. By bringing these communities
together, the center aims to inject new ideas into legal policy debates and grow a new
generation o lawyers with a sense o their capacity and responsibility to use international
law, oreign aairs law, and national security law to address real challenges acing the
nation. For more inormation, visit https://law.yale.edu/glc.
The Yale Law School Center or Private Law serves as a ocal point or research and
teaching in private law at the Law School and, more generally, at the University. The
center, which brings together scholars, students, and practicing lawyers rom across the
United States and abroad, promotes the interdisciplinary study o private law, including
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contracts, property, torts, and private dispute resolution. It emphasizes economically
inormed philosophical, sociological, and doctrinal approaches. The center engages
students, scholars, and practicing lawyers in guest lectures, seminars, workshops, and
other activities.
The Yale Law School Center or the Study o Corporate Law was established in to
promote teaching and research in the business law area. The center’s ocus o study is
wide-ranging, reflecting the shiing priorities o the business and regulatory environ-
ment. It includes corporate and commercial law and the law o other nongovernmental
organizations; the regulation o financial markets and intermediaries; the legal rame-
work o finance, including the law o bankruptcy and corporate reorganization; and
antitrust law and the law o regulated industries.
The center annually hosts the Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable, a one-day event
on the issues o the day, and two endowed lectures, the John R. Raben/Sullivan &
Cromwell Fellowship Lecture and the Judge Ralph K. Winter Lectureship on Corporate
Law and Governance. Throughout the year, the center sponsors the Bert W. Wasserman
Workshop in Law and Finance, which invites scholars rom other universities to present
their current research; the Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium on Contemporary Issues in
Law and Business, which is organized as a lunch lecture series; and additional occasional
lectures, panels, and symposia, such as the – Hilibrand Panel Series on current
white-collar issues. These programs seek to convey to students a broad spectrum o
career experiences through presentations by distinguished alumni and other members
o the bar, judiciary, government, and investment and business communities. The center
also hosts the Craig Wasserman ’/Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Alumni Breakast
Program, which eatures panels on contemporary business law issues held over breakast
or alumni in New York City. Finally, the center provides support or the Law School’s
joint J.D./Ph.D. in finance program with the Yale School o Management, which is a
program intended or students wishing to pursue an academic career in the business-law
area.
Proessor Roberta Romano is the center’s director. Nancy Liao is the John R. Raben/
Sullivan & Cromwell Executive Director. The center has a Board o Advisors, chaired by
Robert J. Giura Jr. ’. Faculty members serving on the center’s Executive Committee
are Ian Ayres, Amy Chua, Heather Gerken, Henry Hansmann, Christine Jolls, Alvin
Klevorick, Anthony Kronman, John Langbein, Zachary Liscow, Yair Listokin, Jonathan
Macey, Daniel Markovits, Noah Messing, John Morley, George Priest, Sven Riethmuel-
ler, Sarath Sanga, Natasha Sarin, and Alan Schwartz. David Zornow ’ and Victoria
Cundi ’, members o the center’s Board and requent visiting lecturers at the Law
School, are center ellows who, among other activities at YLS, provide mentoring to
students regarding careers in the private sector and litigation.
For additional inormation on the center’s upcoming and past activities, the business
law curriculum at the Law School, and the joint J.D./Ph.D. in finance program with the
School o Management, which the center supports, visit https://ccl.yale.edu.
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Several initiatives are designed or the mutual production and dissemination o knowl-
edge between Yale and leading Latin American law schools. The Latin American Linkage
Program is a summer exchange o law students rom Yale, two universities in Chile,
one in Argentina, and our in Brazil. During their summer recess, Yale students spend
three weeks meeting leading legal academics, practitioners, and government ocials and
working with law students in Argentina, Chile, or Brazil. In the spring, students rom
the Latin American partner schools visit Yale or a three-week behind-the-scenes look at
legal education at Yale, sitting in on classes; giving presentations; participating in study
groups; and meeting with aculty, student leaders, and judges and lawyers in various
academic and social settings. In addition, leading legal scholars rom Latin America,
the Caribbean, Spain, and the United States meet each June or the Seminario en
Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional y Política (SELA), a three-day seminar exploring
the oundational principles o constitutional democracy. SELA is cosponsored by Yale
and law schools in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and
Spain and represents the hub o the Latin American Legal Studies program. SELA not
only provides the institutional basis or the Linkage exchange but also or an in-house
speaker series at Yale (the Latin American Series), innumerable aculty visits, and many
collaborative research and translation projects. Proessor Daniel Markovits is the aculty
director at Yale. For additional inormation on Latin American Legal Studies at Yale
see https://law.yale.edu/centers-workshops/yale-law-school-latin-american-legal-studies or
contact bradley[email protected].
The study o legal history occupies an important place in the Law School’s curriculum.
Recent, current, and uture oerings include courses on the history o the common law,
constitutional history, American legal history, European legal history, Chinese legal
history, the history o the administrative state, the history o mass incarceration, the
history o criminal procedure, the history o property, the history o human rights, the
history o empire, and the history o the laws o war. Faculty rom the Yale Depart-
ment o History oer urther courses in South Asian legal history, the legal systems o
antiquity, and more. Seminars and lectures by outside scholars supplement the regular
curricular oerings. The Legal History Forum, a workshop dedicated to scholarship in
legal history, brings legal historians rom around the world to present new scholarship
to interested aculty and students rom the Law School and other Yale departments.
The Law School encourages advanced study and original research in the history o law.
Students may obtain course credit or supervised research with individual proessors.
Students interested in pursuing a career in the field o legal history might pursue the
joint J.D./Ph.D. Program in History or in American Studies.
Each year the Law School has in residence a small number o visiting researchers engaged
in nondegree research. Visiting researchers may audit up to two courses per term (with
the consent o individual instructors) and use library acilities or their work. Each
visiting researcher is charged a registration ee. For the academic year – the ee
is , per term, or , per academic year. No financial aid is available rom the
Law School or participants in this program.
The visiting researcher application is available on the Law School website at https://
law.yale.edu/vr. Applications must include the application orm; a current résumé or cur-
riculum vitae; a description o the proposed research, including a statement explaining
why Yale Law School is a particularly appropriate aliation or the proposed work; two
letters o recommendation; all ocial transcript(s) o the applicant’s academic record;
the proposed length and dates o stay at Yale Law School; an ocial Test o English as
a Foreign Language (TOEFL) report, unless the applicant is a native English speaker
or the applicant’s undergraduate education or first law degree was completed at an
institution where English is the language o instruction; and the (USD) application
ee. The admissions committee requires a minimum score o on the Internet-based
TOEFL test. Yale Law School does not accept the IELTS examination. Final ocial
transcripts may be certified electronic transcripts or traditional paper transcripts. In
either case, they must be sent to the Law School directly rom the issuing institution or
its authorized agent. All documents must be in English or accompanied by a certified
English translation.
Application deadlines are March or the all term and September or the spring
term.
Yale Law School oers a number o ellowships or alumni interested in pursuing careers
in public interest law or academia. The Yale Law School Public Interest, Bernstein,
Liman, Heyman, Gruber, Ford Foundation, and Robina Fellowships, among others,
support work in various types o public interest positions. The Cover Fellowships, as
well as ellowships aliated with a number o centers and programs, are available or
Yale Law School alumni interested in careers in law teaching. For a complete list o
ellowships, visit www.law.yale.edu/publicinterestfellowships.
Lecture Programs and Other Academic Opportunities
Rules o Discipline
The Yale Law School is a community devoted to the study and improvement o law. It is
thus part o two rich traditions—those o the University and o the legal proession. As
an institution, the Law School has a history o sel-government that assures each student
and member o the aculty* an equal opportunity to ulfill their potential at the highest
university standard o excellence.
We recognize, and we rearm, that every member o the Law School has rights, and
owes correlative duties, which flow rom the nature o the School, and o that member’s
relationship to it.
Those rights include the rights o intellectual reedom that are the essence o the
idea o the university. The principles o academic reedom are a precious achievement,
won and maintained with diculty over a long period o time. We wish to protect and
strengthen them.
The duties, which are the necessary predicate o these rights, include a scrupulous
respect or the equal rights o others, and an obligation, owed to every member o the
community, and to the Law School itsel, o ealty to its scholarly and educational pur-
pose, and to its ideals.
Unless these rights are protected, and these duties met, the Law School cannot hope
to sustain and deepen the climate o calm, o mutual respect, and o confident good aith
that are necessary conditions o its lie as a house o reason.
Although the Rights and Duties o Members o the Yale Law School (R&D) provide
or ormal disciplinary procedures when necessary to sanction violations, the R&D
provides or, and the Faculty† encourages, non-adversarial resolution in appropriate
circumstances. It is the Faculty’s hope that members o the community will seek in times
o conflict to maintain, heal, and even strengthen community bonds.
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*In this document, “member o the Law School” reers to a student or member o the aculty.
†In this document, “Faculty,” when capitalized, is the Law School governing entity that consists o the
Proessors o Law and Clinical Proessors o Law (with primary appointments in the Law School);
tenure-track proessors (clinical and non-clinical); associate deans; assistant deans; proessorial lec-
turers; and elected student representatives. “Tenured Faculty” is the Law School governing entity that
consists o the Proessors o Law and Clinical Proessors o Law with primary appointments in the
Law School. A “member o the aculty” is anyone, except students, who has been voted an academic
appointment by the Governing Board or the Tenured Faculty.
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. In the discharge o their duties—whether as a student or as member o the aculty—
each member o the Law School shall enjoy the rights o academic and intellectual
reedom which are undamental to the University tradition generally, and to the
traditions o the Law School in particular.
. Membership in the Law School does not qualiy any person’s reedom to exercise their
constitutional rights, including the rights o reedom o speech, o the press, and o
peaceable assembly.
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A. Oenses against the academic community or which students are subject to the penal-
ties o probation or longer than a month, suspension or not more than two years,
or expulsion, depending upon the gravity o the oense, and or which aculty may
be subject to discipline, are limited to the ollowing major oenses:
. Violations o the Academic Integrity Policy (see appendix).
. Knowingly urnishing alse inormation o a substantial character to an oce or
ocial o the Law School, or to a properly identified University ocial.
. Harassing, abusing, coercing, or injuring any member o the Law School.
. Harassing, abusing, coercing, or injuring any member o the University who is not
a member o the Law School or any employee (or employees) o, or any visitor (or
visitors) to, the Law School or University.
. Using physical orce or violence to cause significant damage to, or loss o, property
owned by or in the custody o the Law School, University, or any member o or
visitor to the Law School or University.
. Taking property owned by or in the custody o the Law School, the University, or
any member o or visitor to the Law School or University without authorization.
. Substantially interering with the conduct o classes, or any other ocial Law
School or University business in a manner that is purposeul, knowing, or reckless.
. Substantially interering with student-sponsored or student group-sponsored
events or unctions in a manner that is purposeul, knowing, or reckless.
. Violating relevant Law School or University policies.*
B. Minor oenses not specifically mentioned in Section II (A) shall be governed by
Section IV.
*Whether the violation o a Law School or University policy constitutes a major oense is to be ulti-
mately determined through the process set orth herein. At a minimum, applicable policies include
the University’s current Policy Regarding Free Expression and Peaceable Assembly and the Faculty
Standards o Conduct.
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. The provisions o this Section shall govern except in situations (a) where jurisdiction
is transerred to or assumed by a University disciplinary panel, pursuant to its rules,
or (b) which involve the minor oenses reerred to in Section II (B), which will be
governed by Section IV. At the discretion o the Dean, the procedures o this Section
and associated time constraints may be postponed during times when the Law School
is in recess until the ollowing regular session o the Law School.
. The Complaint Committee shall be composed o five members o the Tenured Fac-
ulty and five students. The Hearing Committee shall be composed o ten members
o the Tenured Faculty and five students. Members o the Complaint and Hearing
Committees shall be appointed at the commencement o the academic year.
. A member (or members) o the Law School who believes that they have been injured
by a violation o Section II (A) o R&D (“complainant(s)”) shall consult with the
Dean or the Dean’s Representative.
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. The Dean, or the Dean’s Representative, shall, where appropriate, seek to resolve any
dispute between complainant(s) and the member or members o the Law School
who are alleged to have violated Section II (A) o R&D (“respondent(s)”). For this
purpose, the Dean may employee the services o those specializing in mediation and
in other orms o non-adversarial dispute resolution.
. I complainant(s) are not satisfied by the processes o Section III (), they may file
a written complaint with the Complaint Committee. The complaint shall set out
in detail the alleged violation o Section II(A) o R&D. This shall be known as the
“Complaint.”
. Under some circumstances, Federal or State law may require the Law School to
take action with respect to an alleged oense. In those cases, the Dean or the Dean’s
Representative will file a Complaint under R&D. I violations o Section II (A)() or
II (A)() are alleged, the Dean or Dean’s Representative will file a Complaint only in
exceptional circumstances. In all other cases, the Dean or Dean’s Representative may
file a Complaint.
. Upon the filing o a Complaint, the Complaint Committee shall by lot select rom
among its members a panel to consider the Complaint (the “Complaint Panel”). The
Panel shall consist o two members o the Tenured Faculty and one student. At the
Dean’s discretion, the Panel may consist o three members o the Tenured Faculty and
two students. The respondent(s) may elect to have students excluded rom service
on the Panel; in such cases the Panel shall consist o three members o the Tenured
Faculty, selected by lot rom among members o the Complaint Committee.
. The Complaint Panel shall consider and, where appropriate, investigate the Com-
plaint reerred to it. Its investigation shall, where practicable, include an interview
with the complainant(s) and respondent(s). I the Complaint Panel finds reasonable
cause to believe that the respondent(s) have committed an oense that calls or dis-
ciplinary action under Section II (A), it shall reer a “Charge,” together with findings
supporting the Charge, to the Dean. Respondent(s) shall also be inormed o the
Charge, together with the findings supporting the Charge. The Complaint Panel
shall make its decisions by majority vote.
. Any Charge shall be placed in the ocial file o the respondent(s). In the absence o
a Charge, neither the Complaint nor any documents generated by proceedings under
Sections III (–) shall be placed in the ocial file o respondent(s), except with the
consent o the respondent(s). Final resolution o the proceedings under Sections III
(–) shall also be placed in the ocial file o the respondent(s). Subject to the
Dean’s discretion, additional records o the proceedings under Sections III (–)
shall also be placed in the ocial file o the respondent(s), as appropriate.
. The Dean or the Dean’s Representative shall seek a resolution o the Charge through
consultation with the respondent(s) or the respondent(s)’ representative. With the
written consent o the respondent(s), the Dean or the Dean’s Representative may
dispose o the Charge, imposing appropriate penalties.
. I a Charge is not disposed o by agreement between the Dean or the Dean’s Repre-
sentative and the respondent(s), the Dean shall cause to be selected by lot a Hearing
Panel, which shall consist o three aculty members o the Hearing Committee and
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two student members o the Hearing Committee. Persons on the Complaint Panel
and members o the Hearing Committee who have been involved in the investigation
o the charges under consideration may not serve on the Hearing Panel. The members
o the Hearing Panel shall select a Presiding Ocer rom among their number. The
respondent(s) may elect to have students excluded rom service on the Hearing
Panel; in such an instance, the Hearing Panel shall consist o five aculty members o
the Hearing Committee. I the Dean concludes that it is in the best interests o the
School, the Dean shall reer the Charge and findings o the Complaint Panel to the
Hearing Panel. Respondent(s) may also reer the Charge and findings o the Com-
plaint Panel to the Hearing Panel. A maximum o three challenges to the individual
members o the Hearing Panel may be made by the respondent(s). Faculty Panel
members so challenged shall be replaced by lot rom among the aculty members o
Hearing Committee; student Panel members so challenged shall be replaced by lot
rom among the student members o Hearing Committee.
. Barring exceptional circumstances, the dean or dean’s representative shall notiy the
complainant(s) orally about the Complaint Panel’s charge and the findings support-
ing the charge, and the penalty agreed upon or imposed, or the reerral to the Hearing
Panel.
. The dean or dean’s representative shall take action under Section III () within three
weeks o the date on which it becomes aware o a dispute. A Complaint Panel shall act
on any complaint reerred to it within two weeks o the date on which the complaint
is presented, except that the Complaint Panel may fix a longer period o time or
its action i it decides that such a step would best serve the interest o airness to
respondent(s). The dean’s oce shall take action on any charge conveyed to it by the
Complaint Panel under Section III () within two weeks o receiving the charge. I
the charge is reerred to a Hearing Panel, the dean or dean’s representative shall serve
written notice on the respondent(s) within one week. Such written notice shall con-
tain the charges, detailed with sucient particularity to aord respondent(s) a air
opportunity to prepare a response. Written notice may be served on respondent(s)
in person, by email, or by registered or certified mail.
. In appropriate circumstances, the Hearing Panel may reer the determination o
disputed questions o act to an independent hearing examiner.
. The Hearing Panel shall name a hearing date and notiy respondent(s), concurrently
with service o written notice o charges. Such a hearing shall normally be set two
to our weeks rom the date on which written notice was served on respondent(s).
A hearing may be set more than our weeks rom the serving o the notice i the
Hearing Panel determines such action would best serve the interest o airness to
respondent(s).
. A hearing shall be conducted in private.
. The dean shall appoint a member o the aculty to present the evidence with respect
to the charge in any proceeding beore the Hearing Panel, or in proceedings under
Section III (), to the hearing examiner. Respondent(s) may select anyone to repre-
sent them at such proceedings. A aculty member shall be appointed by the dean to
represent any respondent(s) who requests such an appointment.
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. In determining the admissibility o evidence, the Hearing Panel (and, in proceedings
under Section III (), the hearing examiner) shall be guided by the standard o
airness to the individual charged. Except under unusual circumstances recognized
by the law o evidence, evidence o prior oenses shall not be admitted on the issue
o determining whether the person charged has committed the oense. In making its
determinations, the Hearing Panel (and, in proceedings under Section III (), the
hearing examiner) will consider only evidence presented at the hearing. The Hearing
Panel (and, in proceedings under Section III (), the hearing examiner) shall be
persuaded by clear and convincing evidence beore it may find against respondent(s),
who shall have the benefit o the presumption o innocence.
. Respondent(s) have the right to present witnesses on their behal; to remain silent;
to cross-examine witnesses appearing against them to the extent appropriate; and to
present a concluding argument when the taking o evidence has been concluded.
. I a respondent does not appear beore the Hearing Panel (or, in proceedings under
Section III (), the hearing examiner) on the date scheduled or the hearing, the
Panel shall determine whether such non-attendance is justifiable. I it determines that
the absence o respondent(s) is not justifiable, the Hearing Panel (or, in proceedings
under Section III (), the hearing examiner) shall proceed and pass upon the charge
nonetheless. All witnesses called by the Hearing Panel or respondent(s) have a duty to
appear and testiy truthully, except that no witness is under a duty to give testimony
which may incriminate them.
. A verbatim record shall be kept o all proceedings beore the Hearing Panel (and,
in proceedings under Section III (), the hearing examiner). Such record may be a
tape recording or stenographic transcription and shall be available to the individual
charged in any proceeding. Records will be treated as confidential and shall be made
available as appropriate or use in these proceedings.
. The Hearing Panel shall reach its conclusion regarding whether the respondent(s)
committed an oense by majority vote. It shall also recommend penalties by majority
vote, except that suspension or more than a year or expulsion cannot be recom-
mended by a vote o less than our to one. In recommending penalties, the Hearing
Panel shall be guided by the principle stated in the preamble to this code, namely, that
o primary concern or the educational mission o the School.
. The findings and recommendation o the Hearing Panel shall become final unless
the respondent(s) against whom the Hearing Panel has made an adverse finding,
and recommended a penalty, request the dean to review the record and decision o
the Hearing Panel. Any such request must be made within two weeks o the decision
o the Hearing Panel. The dean may exercise discretion to modiy but not increase
the penalties recommended by the Hearing Panel. In such instances, the dean shall
where practicable act within a week o receiving the request. In cases where the dean
has been requested to review the decision o the Hearing Panel, the findings and
recommendations o that panel, and the dean’s disposition o the request, shall be
laid beore the aculty or a period o three weeks beginning on the day that the
dean’s decision is made, and the aculty may, at the request o five members, assume
appellate jurisdiction within that period.
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. I the Hearing Panel has ound no violation o R&D, the dean may lay the decision o
the Hearing Panel beore the Faculty or a period o three weeks, and the aculty may,
at the request o five members, assume appellate jurisdiction within that period.
. In cases o appellate review o a decision o the Hearing Panel by the aculty, the
respondent(s) against whom the Hearing Panel has made an adverse finding, and
recommended a penalty, may elect to have student representatives excluded rom
attendance at the aculty meetings at which the appeal is considered. The aculty
may arm, modiy, or reverse and remand the findings or recommendations o the
Hearing Panel. It shall consider the records o the Hearing Panel and may hear oral
argument. It may reverse and remand when it concludes that new evidence likely to
alter the outcome o the case has been uncovered or that there was substantial and
prejudicial error in the conduct o the hearing, the determination o acts, or the
interpretation or application o R&D.
. The dean or dean’s representative shall notiy the respondent(s) and, barring
exceptional circumstances, complainant(s) orally about any penalty imposed by the
Hearing Panel, the dean, or the aculty within one month o the final disposition o
the charge.
. In situations o emergency, the dean may take action consistent with University
policy.
. All ormal complaints o sexual misconduct must be pursued in accordance with
the procedures o the University Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct. The Law
School and other University Title IX Coordinators are available to assist with non-
disciplinary responses to such complaints and to provide guidance regarding the
resources available to students. For more inormation, see https://titleix.yale.edu.
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In the case o minor oenses not specifically mentioned in Section II (A), the dean may
take such measures as the dean deems appropriate, including encouraging mediation
or non- adversarial dispute resolution. In addition, the dean may take measures such as
the dean deems appropriate, including an oral reprimand, request or apology, placing a
letter in the oender’s ocial file not lasting beyond graduation, and placing the oender
on probation or not more than a month, but excluding expulsion or suspension. For
student members, the dean may not place a letter lasting beyond graduation in the
oender’s ocial file under this Section without first filing a Complaint under Section
III ().
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A Committee on Disciplinary Policy shall be a standing committee o the Faculty. It shall,
among its responsibilities, review the operation o this code, and propose amendments
when in its judgment such amendments are desirable.
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Academic Integrity Policy
Academic integrity is a core value o the Law School. All members o the community are
expected to demonstrate the highest degree o ethics and honesty. Violations o academic
integrity include but are not limited to:
• Cheating or assisting another student to cheat through the use o unauthorized
materials or inormation beore, during, or aer an examination or other written
exercise.
• Participating in unauthorized collaboration on graded course work such as take-home
examinations.
• Falsiying data in any work product.
• Plagiarizing or otherwise ailing to give proper attribution or credit to ideas or text
rom another source, including published works, another person’s work, data collec-
tion services, or materials on the Internet.
• Submitting or academic credit work procured or purchased rom another person or
source without permission o the instructor and the deputy dean.
• Submitting the same work, or a substantial portion o work, in more than one course
without permission o the instructors involved and the deputy dean.
• Submitting or academic credit work done or compensation or as uncompensated
work done in a proessional setting, without disclosing to the instructor the compen-
sated or proessional circumstances under which the work was perormed. Students
submitting such work would be well advised also to seek the permission o the
individual or entity or whom the work was done.
Law School community members should comply with the University’s Human Research
Protection Program (HRPP), which sets orth ethical standards, policies, and proce-
dures or research that involves human subjects. Researchers should consult the HRPP
Policies and Procedures to determine whether a project requires advance review and
approval by an Institutional Review Board. See https://your.yale.edu/research-support/
human-research-protection-program/policies-procedures-guidance-and-related-1.
The dean o the Law School, or a delegate o the dean, may place a student on an
emergency suspension rom residence or academic status when () the student has been
arrested or or charged with serious criminal behavior by law enorcement authorities; or
() the student allegedly violated a disciplinary rule o the Law School and the student’s
presence on campus poses a significant risk to the saety or security o members o the
community.
Following an individualized risk and saety analysis, the student will be notified in
writing o the emergency suspension. A student who is notified o an emergency suspen-
sion will have hours to respond to the notice. The emergency suspension will not be
imposed prior to an opportunity or the student to respond unless circumstances warrant
immediate action or the saety and security o members o the community. In such cases,
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the student will have an opportunity to respond aer the emergency suspension has been
imposed.
When a student in the Law School is placed on an emergency suspension, the matter
will be reerred or disciplinary action in accordance with school policy. Such a suspen-
sion may remain in eect until disciplinary action has been taken with regard to the
student; however, it may be lied earlier by action o the dean or dean’s delegate, or by
the disciplinary committee aer a preliminary review.
Academic Requirements and Options
All J.D., J.S.D., LL.M., and M.S.L. students are required to register at the Law School on
August or , . Ph.D. students are required to register with the Graduate School
o Arts and Sciences on the Graduate School’s schedule.
J.D. students may not register or their penultimate term unless they have completed
one o the two writing requirements (see Writing Requirements, below).
For the spring term, all students are expected to register, either in person at the Law
School or through an online check-in, on January , .
First-term J.D. students will not be allowed to register unless they have provided the
registrar with a digital photograph and an ocial transcript confirming the award o a
bachelor’s degree. Incoming first-term students must submit no later than October ,
, a final, ocial transcript rom the institution that awarded their undergraduate
degree. Students who ail to do so will be withdrawn rom the Law School on that date.
Transer students must provide the registrar with a digital photograph and ocial
transcripts o a bachelor’s degree and the first year o law school.
A ee o will be charged or late registration. This ee will be waived only with the
registrar’s written permission to register late. Written permission must be received prior
to the designated registration day.
Classes commence on August , , or the all term and are scheduled to begin
on January , , or the spring term.
All J.D. students, except first-term students, and all graduate students may sample
courses and rearrange course selections or a period o time ollowing registration, as
specified by the registrar. Aer that time period, a student may not add or drop a course
unless (a) on application to the instructor, the student can establish good cause or
adding or dropping the course; (b) the registrar concurs in the recommendation o the
instructor; and (c) the student retains at least units and no more than units or the
term, or the associate dean or academic aairs and the registrar approve another number
o units. Forms or adding and dropping courses must be signed by the instructors o
the respective courses and filed with the Oce o the Registrar. A course requiring an
examination must be added or dropped by the final day o classes. The specific dates or
filing such requests each term are published on the calendar o the Oce o the Registrar.
A ee o , , or will be charged or each late course change, depending on the
time o the change. A ee o will be charged or any course change that occurs in a
term subsequent to the term in which the course was oered.
A aculty member may set a limit on or special qualifications or enrollment in a course,
and these will be specified in the course description. I no such limitations have been
set, enrollment in a course will be limited only by the availability o classroom space.
Academic Requirements and Options
I enrollment is limited, then students must apply during a special sign-up period that
usually occurs in June or all-term courses and in November or spring-term courses.
A student applying or more than one course in which enrollment is limited must
indicate preerences among these courses by designating a first choice, a second choice,
and up to three third choices. This ranking may be used by aculty in making selections
among students. A student who is accepted in such a limited enrollment course will be
enrolled in that course during the first online enrollment period. Students who decline
a place in such a limited enrollment course must remove that course rom their schedule
during the open enrollment period and notiy both the proessor and the registrar, so
that their place in the course may be oered to someone else. Students may list three
choices or courses designated as requiring the permission o the instructor; our choices
or courses designated as experiential; and our choices or courses that do not require
permission or have other restrictions, other than a designated maximum enrollment.
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A aculty member may oer a course or program o individual work on a credit/ail basis
i the aculty member believes the work makes it ineasible to give individual grades. A
aculty member may oer any course or program o individual work on a credit/ail basis
or some or all o the students participating. Similarly, a aculty member may oer the
option o taking a designated credit/ail course or clinic on a graded basis or some or all
o the students participating. The aculty member should make these determinations at
the beginning o the term. I a student is given the option to change the grading basis
o a course, clinic, or program o individual work, the student must exercise the option
by filing the appropriate orm with the Oce o the Registrar by the published deadline
or the term. Aer this deadline, the grade mode may not be changed by the student or
the aculty member.
Law School examinations are given during a period (normally two weeks) at the end o
the term.
The registrar may, or good cause shown, permit students to take an examination
at a time dierent rom that indicated on the ocial examination schedule. Requests
or such permission may be made only during the last week o classes, except in case o
sudden emergencies, such as illness. The specific dates or filing such requests each term
are published on the calendar o the Oce o the Registrar.
The registrar may permit extra time on examinations or students in their first year at
the Law School i their native language is not English and i the language o instruction
at their undergraduate or previous institution was not English. No extra time will be per
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mitted or any student who attended an undergraduate institution where the language
o instruction was English.
All papers assigned during the term, and all papers submitted in lieu o examinations
in courses where that is authorized, are due, unless otherwise indicated by the instructor,
on the final day o the examination period or that term.
For good cause, instructors may authorize extensions o time or the completion o
papers. The authorization must be in writing, and extensions will be permitted or no
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more than sixty days aer the close o the term in which the paper is assigned. Extensions
o time beyond these limits shall be approved only in cases in which the student obtains,
in writing, permission rom both the instructor and the registrar. Such permission must
include a specific due date and must be filed with the registrar. I the student does not
meet regular or extended deadlines or a paper or examination, the instructor may award
a grade o Failure or the paper or examination.
Honors Perormance in the course demonstrates superior mastery o the subject.
Pass Successul perormance in the course.
Low Pass Perormance in the course is below the level expected or the award o a degree.
Credit The course has been completed satisactorily; no particular level o perormance
is specified. All first-term courses and certain advanced courses are oered only on a
credit/ail basis.
Failure No credit is given or the course.
There is no required “curve” or grades in Law School classes. Individual class rank is
not computed.
An instructor’s evaluation o the quality o a student’s work is final and may not be
appealed, except where a student alleges that the grade resulted rom discrimination
based on race, sex, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, or sexual orienta-
tion. Students should raise such allegations with the dean o the Law School.
A “credit hour” is the amount o work that reasonably approximates:
. not less than one hour o classroom or direct aculty instruction and two hours o
out-o-class student work per week or fieen weeks, or the equivalent amount o
work over a dierent amount o time; or
. at least an equivalent amount o work as required in subparagraph () o this defini-
tion or other academic activities as established by the institution, including simula-
tion, field placement, clinical co-curricular, and other academic work leading to the
award o credit hours.
“One hour” o classroom or direct aculty instruction is fiy minutes. An “hour” or out-
o-class student work is sixty minutes.
Teaching block times are designed to calculate the minutes per credit unit or thir-
teen weeks o instruction plus the calculation o either the equivalent o one additional
week or the time o a final examination or, or a seminar where a substantial research
paper is required, the additional non-seat supervision time that is needed to complete
such course requirement.
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To qualiy or the J.D. degree, students must at all times meet the conditions or con-
tinuation as a degree candidate, complete a total o units o satisactory work, satisy
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the writing requirements and other requirements specified below, spend at least six ull
terms or the equivalent thereo in residence, and be recommended or the degree by the
aculty. No degree will be awarded i incomplete work remains on a student’s record.
Attendance at Yale Law School must be ull-time or a period o six terms. Each term,
including the final term in residence, a student must enroll or no ewer than and no
more than units o credit, unless approval is given by the appropriate dean and the
registrar. Such approval is granted only in unusual circumstances. During the terms that
students are enrolled and in residence at Yale Law School, they cannot be simultaneously
enrolled, either ull-time or part-time, in any other school or college either within Yale
University or at any other institution.
In accordance with American Bar Association accreditation standards and sound
educational policy, the Law School requires regular class attendance or a student to
receive credit or a course. Instructors have the discretion to have more specific atten-
dance requirements, which they announce at the beginning o the term.
For additional inormation about requirements or transer students, see Transer
Policy/Advanced Standing, in the chapter Admissions, Expenses, and Financial Aid. For
additional inormation about requirements or joint-degree programs, see Joint Degrees,
below.
First Term
Each student must take courses in Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and
Administration, and Procedure. In one o these subjects, the student is assigned to a small
group. This seminar-style course, with about sixteen students, integrates elementary
training in legal research and writing with regular course work. All first-term courses are
graded on a credit/ail basis.
Curriculum aer the First Term
To graduate, students must, aer the first term, satisactorily complete at least units
o credit. As a condition or graduation, a student must successully complete a course
o study o not ewer than credit hours. At least o these credit hours shall be
in courses that require attendance in regularly scheduled classroom sessions or direct
aculty instruction.* A maximum o o the units required or graduation may be
or supervised research and reading. Students are ree to select their own curriculum,
but each student must complete () Torts and Regulation, () a course o at least
units substantially devoted to issues o legal ethics or proessional responsibility, ()
one or more experiential courses totaling at least credit hours (see below), and () the
writing requirements described below. Students should consult the YLS:Courses site to
ascertain which courses meet the legal ethics/proessional responsibility and experiential
credit requirements. Students who plan to sit or the New York Bar should consult the
YLS:Courses site also to ensure that they enroll in a proessional responsibility course
that satisfies the New York State Bar requirements.
To graduate, students matriculating in all or later must also complete at least two
educational experiences devoted to concerns about bias, cross-cultural competency, and
racism. The first such experience will be provided during Orientation. The requirement
o a second such educational occasion can be met by attending a designated Law School
program on these issues or by enrolling in a clinic or field placement that the aculty
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member indicates will provide such an educational experience. In any case, or students
engaged in clinics or field placements, the second educational occasion concerning bias,
cross-cultural competency, and racism must take place beore, concurrently with, or as
part o their enrollment in their first clinic or field placement.
To be designated as a course that meets the experiential requirement, the course must
be a simulation course, law clinic, or field placement, be primarily experiential in nature,
and must: () integrate doctrine, theory, skills, and legal ethics, and engage students
in perormance o one or more o the proessional skills identified in Standard ; ()
develop the concepts underlying the proessional skills being taught; () provide mul-
tiple opportunities or perormance; and () provide opportunities or sel-evaluation.
To receive experiential credit or clinical fieldwork, students must take the corresponding
seminar in the same term the fieldwork is perormed.
A student may not use a course to satisy more than one o the ollowing require-
ments: Proessional Responsibility, Supervised Analytic Writing, Substantial Paper,
experiential credit hours.
*In calculating the credit hours o regularly scheduled classroom sessions or direct aculty instruc-
tion or the purpose o ABA Standard (b), the credit hours may include: () credit hours earned
by attendance in regularly scheduled classroom sessions or direct aculty instruction; () credit hours
earned by participation in a simulation course or law clinic in compliance with ABA Standard ; ()
credit hours earned through distance education in compliance with ABA Standard ; and () credit
hours earned by participation in law-related studies or activities in a country outside the United States
in compliance with ABA Standard .
In calculating the credit hours o regularly scheduled classroom sessions or direct aculty
instruction or the purpose o ABA Standard (b), the credit hours shall not include any other course
work, including, but not limited to: () credit hours earned through field placements and other study
outside o the classroom in compliance with ABA Standard ; () credit hours earned in another
department, school, or college o the university with which the law school is aliated, or at another
institution o higher learning; () credit hours earned or participation in co-curricular activities such
as law review, moot court, and trial competition; and () credit hours earned by participation in stud-
ies or activities in a country outside the United States in compliance with ABA Standard or studies
or activities that are not law-related.
Conditions for Continuing as a J.D. Candidate
A J.D. student who receives a Failure in any course or individual work may, with permis-
sion o the instructor, repeat the same or credit and must repeat and pass the same i it
is a required course.
Students must maintain Satisactory Academic Progress (SAP) in both quantitative
(pace) and qualitative terms. SAP will be assessed at the end o each academic year or
J.D. students.
Quantitative (pace) measures Each student in the J.D. program must complete a mini-
mum o credit hours over the course o six terms in residence (or the equivalent). To
maintain ull-time status in good standing, each student must be enrolled in the our
required courses in the first term ( credit hours) and in to credit hours in each
subsequent term, generally averaging or credit hours per term over the five terms
aer the first term in residence. Enrollment beyond six terms, or at less than ull time, is
approved by the dean only in extraordinary circumstances. The maximum time rame or
a student to complete J.D. requirements is eighty-our months rom the date the student
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matriculated in law school, including terms on leave. Students who have not completed
their degree requirements will be withdrawn rom the Law School eighty-our months
rom the date o matriculation, or twenty-our months aer their sixth term, whichever
occurs first.
Each student in the J.D. program must complete percent o the credit hours
attempted by the end o the first year o study and percent o the credit hours
attempted by the end o the second year o study. One o the two writing requirements,
the Substantial Paper or the Supervised Analytic Writing Paper, must be completed and
certified beore students may register or their penultimate term in the J.D. program.
Qualitative measures Students will be disqualified as J.D. candidates and will not be
allowed to continue in the Law School i they receive () two Failures in any one term; ()
a total o three Failures; () Low Pass or Failure in our or more courses by the end o the
third term; () Low Pass or Failure in five or more courses by the end o the ourth term;
() Low Pass or Failure in six or more courses by the end o the fih term; or () Low
Pass or Failure in a total o seven or more courses. A student who has been disqualified
as a J.D. candidate or not maintaining satisactory grades will not be readmitted without
a vote o the Faculty in Executive Session.
At the end o students’ first and second terms, an assistant or associate dean will
consult with students i they appear to be doing marginal work. The dean will discuss
with these students the advisability o continuing in the Law School.
At the end o each academic year, the registrar will send a degree-progress report
to all continuing J.D. candidates, including notification o graduation requirements
completed, in progress, or not yet begun. The appropriate dean will consult with any
student who appears not to be making satisactory academic progress. The dean and
the student will prepare an academic plan and ormal schedule or the completion o
in-progress work. For complete details on the Satisactory Academic Progress policy or
J.D. candidates, see https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Public_Aairs/
SAP_Policy_Final.pdf.
Limitations on Credit/Fail Units
Aer the first term, a student must satisactorily complete at least units o graded
work. At least graded units must be taken in the second term o law school. No more
than a total o units o ungraded credit in student-directed programs may be counted
toward the degree.
Credit/ail work will not be accepted toward ulfillment o the Supervised Analytic
Writing requirement. The Substantial Paper requirement may be satisfied by a paper
written or a Supervised Research program on a credit/ail basis, or a course oered on
a credit/ail basis. For Substantial Papers that are written as Supervised Research, the
election o graded or credit/ail must be made at the beginning o the project.
Writing Requirements
For graduation, each student must complete units o Supervised Analytic Writing and
prepare a Substantial Paper o at least units. Prior to beginning work on a Supervised
Analytic Writing paper or Substantial Paper, a student should secure the approval o the
supervising aculty member. At least one o these writing requirements must be satisfied
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beore a student can register or the penultimate term at the Law School. Specifically,
the Law School requires that the supervisor o one o those writing projects must certiy
the student’s successul completion o the project beore the student can register or
the penultimate term (see Registration, above); the aculty certification must include a
final grade or the paper. For most J.D. students, the penultimate term is the fih term;
however, or joint-degree students, the penultimate term is the ourth term. For students
who will enter their penultimate term in the all, the deadline or final certification is
August ; or those whose penultimate term is the spring, the deadline is the last day o
the all-term examination period.
A Supervised Analytic Writing paper or units involves work that is closely
supervised by a proessor and is designed to increase the student’s proficiency in legal
research, analytic reasoning, and writing in a single field o concentration; the paper may
not be purely descriptive in character. Supervised Analytic Writing papers may not be
submitted on a credit/ail basis and must be certified with a final grade o Pass or higher.
Students are strongly encouraged to begin their Supervised Analytic Writing paper no
later than the beginning o their penultimate term. Many aculty members require a
two-term commitment or Supervised Analytic Writing papers and will not supervise
students beginning papers in their last term.
A Substantial Paper or units o credit, although not necessarily meeting the criteria
or a Supervised Analytic Writing paper, must be a significant written project. Supervi-
sors may accept Substantial Papers written or a Supervised Research program or course
oered on either a graded or credit/ail basis. For Substantial Papers that are written as
Supervised Research, the election o graded or credit/ail must be made at the beginning
o the project. I a Substantial Paper is certified on a graded basis, the final grade must be
Pass or higher.
Supervised Analytic Writing papers or Substantial Papers may be prepared in con-
nection with () seminars or courses, () research and writing under aculty supervision
(see below), or () the Intensive Semester Research Program (see below). Work done
in courses outside the Law School will not be accepted in satisaction o the writing
requirements.
Only instructors with particular appointments at Yale Law School are eligible to
serve as supervisors or Supervised Analytic Writing papers or Substantial Papers. For
a complete list o which aculty and visitors may supervise Supervised Analytic Writing
papers and Substantial Papers, please consult the Oce o the Registrar’s website.
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Research and Writing Opportunities
Students have numerous opportunities to engage in research and writing under aculty
supervision. These include writing in connection with seminar courses, writing in a clini-
cal program, and individual research and writing under aculty supervision. The aculty
encourages students to publish their written work in law journals and other periodicals
and to make this work available to other scholars. Prizes are awarded or outstanding
scholarly writing (see Prizes, in the chapter Alumni and Endowment Funds).
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Clinical Programs
Yale Law School oers nearly thirty live-client clinics, providing students the opportu-
nity to integrate legal practice, theory, and doctrine in a variety o practice areas. Stu-
dents, supervised by aculty members and practicing attorneys, interview clients, write
bries, prepare witnesses, try cases, negotiate settlements, dra contracts, participate in
commercial transactions, write legislation and regulatory proposals, and argue appeals
in state and ederal courts, including the U.S. Court o Appeals and the Connecticut
Supreme Court. Students are eligible to participate in live-client clinics and appear in
court beginning in the spring term o their first year. Nearly ninety percent o all students
take at least one clinic, and many students participate in two or more.
A number o Yale’s live-client clinics operate within a single law firm, the Jerome
N. Frank Legal Services Organization (LSO). These clinics include: () Criminal
Justice Advocacy Clinic, representing individuals and organizations aected by the
criminal legal system; () Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic, representing criminal
deendants in state and ederal proceedings; () Housing Clinic, representing clients in
mortgage oreclosures, landlord-tenant, and air housing cases; () Ludwig Center or
Community and Economic Development, providing legal services and other proessional
consultation services to community groups involved in aordable housing, banking, and
economic development eorts; () Mental Health Justice Clinic, representing individu-
als in the criminal legal system, the civil detention system, or other civil rights areas and
community groups engaged in local or state-level advocacy; () Peter Gruber Challeng-
ing Mass Incarceration Clinic, representing clients in ederal sentencing proceedings and
Connecticut state post-conviction cases; () Veterans Legal Services Clinic, representing
Connecticut veterans and their organizations in disability benefits, discharge upgrade,
and civil rights matters, as well as legislative and regulatory advocacy projects; and ()
Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, representing immigrants and low-wage
workers and their organizations in labor, immigration, civil rights, and other areas.
All LSO clinics involve close collaboration among new students, experienced stu-
dents, and supervising clinical aculty. LSO also devotes special attention to issues o
proessional responsibility and client-centered lawyering. Cases brought by LSO and its
legislative, regulatory, and transactional eorts have helped make new law protecting the
rights o clients in the various projects and have secured concrete benefits or individuals,
amilies, and communities around the state, region, and country.
In addition to the LSO clinics, Yale Law School oers other clinics, projects, and
experiential learning opportunities. These include () Appellate Litigation Project,
representing pro se clients beore the U.S. Court o Appeals or the Second and Third
Circuits; () Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic, providing legal counsel to or-
profit and nonprofit entrepreneurs; () Goldman Sonneneldt Environmental Protection
Clinic: Policy and Advocacy, addressing environmental law and policy problems or cli-
ent organizations; () Financial Markets and Corporate Law Clinic, ormulating policy
statements on proposed regulation; () Free Exercise Clinic, an opportunity or students
to deend the ree exercise o politically vulnerable religious minorities; () Global
Public Health and Justice Practicum, working on issues at the intersection o public
health, rights, and justice; () International Reugee Assistance Project, providing legal
representation to reugees; () Legal Assistance: Beshar/Lehner Gender Violence Clinic,
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representing survivors o domestic violence in both civil and criminal matters; () Legal
Assistance: Immigrant Rights Clinic, representing immigrants and their organizations in
Connecticut beore administrative agencies and in the legislature; () Legal Assistance:
Reentry Clinic, providing civil representation to people with criminal convictions to help
them reenter society; () Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, providing
practical experience in human rights work; () Media Freedom and Inormation Access
Clinic, ocusing on issues o government transparency and reedom o expression; ()
Policing, Law, and Policy Clinic, ocused on translating cutting-edge empirical research
on policing reorm into real-world policies; () Prosecution Externship, assisting state
and ederal prosecutors beore and aer trial; () Reproductive Rights and Justice
Project, representing reproductive health care providers and/or patients in cases being
handled by attorneys at national organizations; () San Francisco Armative Litigation
Project, researching and litigating public interest lawsuits with lawyers in the Oce o
the San Francisco City Attorney; () Strategic Advocacy Clinic, providing a real-world
laboratory or students to tackle pressing issues related to criminal justice and inequality;
and () Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, representing clients pro bono beore the U.S.
Supreme Court.
The Law School also oers simulation courses in trial practice, civil litigation, and
appellate advocacy, as well as a number o business practice courses in areas as diverse
as private capital markets, corporate crisis management, negotiating and draing M&A
agreements, and international arbitration.
Student-Directed Forensic, Experiential, and Editorial Programs
In the second term, students may begin participating in programs managed primarily by
students under the general supervision o a aculty adviser. These programs are described
in the chapter Student Organizations and Journals.
Because the study o law during the first term o law school is demanding and requires
nearly total concentration, first-term students are strongly discouraged rom working on
law journals or participating in any activities other than their regular course work. In
any case, they may not undertake more than a total o twenty hours o pro bono work
through law school projects and journal work, and no more than six o those twenty
hours may be dedicated to journal work.
Reading Groups and Supervised Reading and Research Programs
Aer the first term and with the approval o the supervising aculty member, students
may undertake reading or research programs or credit. There are two types o programs:
() supervised reading or research with a aculty member, and () aculty-sponsored
reading groups. No more than units o credit or such reading or research programs
may be counted toward the units required or graduation. No more than o these
units may be or participation in reading groups.
In the case o supervised reading or research, the program must be arranged with
the aculty member and filed with the Oce o the Registrar within the first two weeks
o the term. In any term, a student may take at most units o supervised research
and supervised reading, no more than o which may be or supervised reading. The
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registrar’s permission is required or a student to take more than units o supervised
research and supervised reading with a single supervisor in a term.
In the case o an approved reading group, each participating student may receive no
more than unit o credit, which must be ungraded. To obtain approval or a reading
group, the student(s) organizing the group must submit a written proposal to the regis-
trar. The proposal must () describe the law-related topic to be examined, () provide a
complete reading syllabus, and () be reviewed and approved by the sponsoring aculty
member. To receive credit, students must attend at least minutes o group meetings.
As noted above, no more than units o credit or reading groups may be counted toward
the units required or graduation. For reading group policies and orms, please see
the Oce o the Registrar webpage. Deadlines or submitting aculty-reviewed and
approved proposals to the registrar are published in that oce’s calendar.
Intensive Semester Research Program
The Intensive Semester Research Program provides an opportunity or students in their
ourth or fih term to immerse themselves intensively in a major research project leading
to a significant academic product, either at or away rom the Law School. Approval o
a proposal or an Intensive Semester is restricted to special situations where devotion
o one-sixth o a student’s law school career to a single intensive research project has
clear academic justification. The Intensive Semester Research Program is not designed
to provide an externship experience, law school credit or public service, or opportunities
to live away rom New Haven or pressing personal reasons.
Under the program, students may devote an entire term to supervised and specialized
research overseen by both a member o the Yale Law School aculty and, i away rom the
Law School, an on-site supervisor. A research project pursued away rom the Law School
may be located at an archival site or at a site or fieldwork where necessary to achieve the
student’s research goals. Whenever an Intensive Semester is to be pursued at a location
away rom the Law School, the on-site supervisor who has agreed to supplement the
aculty member in overseeing the student’s work will be expected, at the conclusion
o the Intensive Semester, to submit a report to the aculty supervisor describing and
assessing the student’s research or fieldwork. Evaluation o the student’s written product
will remain the responsibility o the supervising aculty member.
To apply or the program a student must submit a comprehensive written research
proposal to the registrar. The proposal should describe in detail () the student’s
qualifications to undertake the proposed research; () the nature and significance o
the research to be undertaken; () the expected product o the research; () the special
circumstances that make an Intensive Semester, rather than a conventional semester
spent at the Law School, more eective or attaining the student’s educational goals;
and () the necessary relationship between any fieldwork and the research and writing
component. The proposal must be accompanied by the written approval o the aculty
member agreeing to supervise it and a statement by the aculty supervisor indicating
why in the supervisor’s judgment the proposal should be approved. Each proposal will
be reviewed by the Faculty Committee on Special Courses o Study or compliance with
these requirements.
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An Intensive Semester can be taken or up to units o credit. The number o units
to be graded will be determined by the aculty supervisor, but () work perormed by
the student or credit but not under direct aculty supervision may receive no more than
ungraded credits, and () at least graded credits must be or the aculty-supervised
research paper. The aculty-supervised written work may, with the approval o the
instructor, be designated in the application as being undertaken in satisaction o the
Supervised Analytic Writing requirement or the Substantial Paper requirement.
Proposals or Intensive Semesters are reviewed twice during the academic year,
once in the all term and again in the spring term. The specific deadlines or submit-
ting Intensive Semester Research Program proposals can be ound on the Important
Dates calendar published by the Oce o the Registrar. An Intensive Semester Research
Program application will be accepted by the registrar only i the student has completed
all work in previously taken courses. A student whose application has been approved
by the Intensive Semester Research Program Committee may register or the Intensive
Semester Research Program only i all prior course work is complete. Students may not
take an Intensive Semester during their final term nor take more than one Intensive
Semester while at the Law School. Students who undertake an Intensive Semester away
rom the Law School will be expected to complete the balance o their legal education in
residence at the Law School.
Full tuition is charged during the Intensive Semester regardless o where the project
is pursued. Financial aid rom the Law School will be awarded under the same circum-
stances and in the same manner as to students in residence. A student may have financial
aid budgets adjusted to reflect the extra, nonreimbursed costs, i any, o living and work
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ing away rom New Haven, but the Law School will not necessarily adjust financial aid
or all such extra costs, especially in connection with oreign placements.
A student may not receive compensation rom any source or work related to the
Intensive Semester Research Program. The student may, however, be permitted to accept
reimbursement, rom the agency or organization at which the student is located or field-
work purposes, to cover the extra costs reerred to above, i those financial arrangements
are disclosed in detail in the application or the Intensive Semester Research Program and
approved in advance by the director o financial aid.
Courses Outside the Law School
Aer the first term, students may take or Law School credit a limited number o courses
in the Graduate School, other proessional schools, or the undergraduate college o Yale
University. Such courses must be relevant to the student’s program o study in the Law
School or planned legal career. To obtain permission to take such a course, a student
must provide a written statement explaining how the course relates to the student’s legal
studies or uture law practice and must have () the recommendation o a Law School
aculty member, () permission rom the instructor o the course, and () permission
o the registrar. The registrar determines the appropriate number o units o credit to
be awarded or the course. Only one outside course per term is ordinarily allowed, and
at most units o credit or such courses may be counted toward the units required
or the degree. O the possible units o outside credit, no more than units o study
in a oreign language may be counted toward the J.D. Students may not undertake
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supervised independent study or enroll in an outside practicum with non-Law School
aculty. An outside course may be elected on a credit/ail basis only i the other school or
department permits that option or that course. The requirements o the other school or
department must, o course, be satisfied. Other schools’ bulletins are available online at
https://bulletin.yale.edu.
Note to students planning to sit the bar examination in New York State: Although courses
outside the Law School may be counted toward the graduation requirements, to a
maximum o units, such units may not be part o the classroom hours required or
certification to sit the New York Bar.
In cooperation with other schools o Yale University, the Law School oers programs
leading to a master’s degree and a J.D. or to a doctorate and a J.D. These programs are
intended or those who wish to acquire specialized skills or some body o knowledge
related to law. All proposals must be submitted to and approved by the aculty Commit-
tee on Special Courses o Study. Except in unusual circumstances, joint-degree status will
not be ormally approved until the student has satisactorily completed the first term at
the Law School.
While joint degrees have been most common with the Graduate School and the
School o Management, students have also arranged joint-degree programs with the
Divinity School, the Jackson School o Global Aairs, and the Schools o the Environ-
ment, Medicine, and Public Health. A joint-degree program is also oered in conjunc-
tion with the School o Public and International Aairs at Princeton University and
the Harvard Kennedy School. On a case-by-case basis, the Law School has permitted
students to pursue joint degrees with relevant programs in other universities as well.
During terms that joint-degree students are enrolled and in residence at Yale Law
School, they cannot be simultaneously enrolled, either ull-time or part-time, in any
other school or college either within Yale University or at any other institution. Joint-
degree students must satisy one o the two writing requirements beore they can register
or their penultimate term at the Law School (see Writing Requirements, above). Joint-
degree students who receive units o joint-degree credit may not count other outside
courses toward the J.D. For more inormation on joint-degree requirements, consult the
Oce o the Registrar’s website.
Master of Arts
Some Graduate School departments and programs oer one-year master’s degrees
or Yale Law School students, e.g., Economics, and others oer two-year programs.
Students should consult the director o graduate studies in the relevant department or
inormation about the program.
Application or a master’s degree program can be made at the same time as application
to the Law School or during the student’s first or second year at the Law School. Detailed
instructions about applications should be obtained rom the Graduate School Oce o
Admissions.
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Master of Business Administration
The School o Management oers a master o business administration (M.B.A.), which
is normally completed in two years. The J.D.-M.B.A. is directed toward students inter-
ested in business law-related practice as well as in careers as entrepreneurs and managers
in business and nonprofit organizations. A J.D.-M.B.A. joint-degree program, in which
the J.D. and M.B.A. degrees are earned in our years, is oered. Students may apply to
both the Law School and the School o Management simultaneously, or they may apply
during their first year at the School o Management or their first or second year at the
Law School.
Master of Public Administration and Master of Public Policy
The Harvard Kennedy School o Government (HKS), the Princeton School o Public
and International Aairs (SPIA), and the Yale Jackson School o Global Aairs each oer
a master o public policy (M.P.P.), which is normally completed in two years. HKS and
SPIA also oer a master o public administration, which is normally completed in two
years. The J.D.-M.P.P. is directed toward students interested in public policy analysis and
law-related practice as well as careers in government and policymaking. The J.D.-M.P.A.
is ocused on applying quantitative and qualitative methods to a holistic development
o public policy. The J.D.-M.P.P. joint-degree program and the J.D.-M.P.A. joint-degree
program, in which the J.D. and M.P.P. or M.P.A. degrees are earned in our years, are
oered. Students may apply to both the Law School and HKS, SPIA, or Jackson School
simultaneously, or they may apply during their first year at HKS, SPIA, or Jackson, or
during their first or second year at the Law School.
Doctorate
It is possible to combine study or the J.D. and Ph.D. degrees. The total time in residence
and the details o each program o study must be taken up with the Graduate School
o Arts and Sciences, the director o graduate studies in the relevant department, and
the Law School. Students interested in such a program must be admitted to the two
schools separately. They may apply to both simultaneously or, having been admitted to
the Law School or the Graduate School, may apply or admission to the other program.
Ordinarily, the Law School encourages a joint-degree candidate to complete the J.D.
within our years. The deadline or application to Ph.D. programs varies. Please check
the Graduate School website (https://gsas.yale.edu) or application inormation or the
specific program o interest. Applicants who are potentially interested in a joint J.D.-
Ph.D. program may direct any questions to the Admissions Oce.
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This joint-degree program with the School o Management is intended or students
wishing to pursue a career in business law teaching. The program provides prospective
legal scholars with the analytical tools that are necessary or engaging in research in busi-
ness law-related areas. Applicants to the program must be enrolled in the Law School.
Law students must meet the admission requirements o the School o Management’s
Ph.D. program. The expectation is that law students will apply or admission to the
School o Management graduate program in their first year o law school, although
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they may also choose to apply in their second year. A mathematical background, includ-
ing undergraduate courses in multivariable calculus, linear algebra, real analysis, and
statistics/econometrics, is typically required or admission. Law students interested in
applying to the program should contact the director o the Yale Law School Center or
the Study o Corporate Law, Proessor Roberta Romano. More detailed inormation
about program requirements is available at https://ccl.yale.edu/jd-phd-finance.
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Leaves of Absence and Readmission
A leave o absence may be taken only with the permission o the dean or the dean’s
delegate. A leave may be arranged under terms the dean deems appropriate, provided
that a definite time is fixed or the student’s return to the Law School and that the ol-
lowing limitations shall apply. A student who has completed at least one term and who
has been on leave o absence, other than a medical leave o absence as set orth below,
or no more than two academic years shall be readmitted unless the dean recommends
otherwise to the Faculty in Executive Session, as the dean may in extraordinary cases.
A student who has not completed the first term will ordinarily not be granted a leave o
absence except on serious medical or personal grounds. When a leave has been granted
on such grounds, the dean may authorize readmission within a period o two academic
years and, in the case o medical leave, as set orth in the medical leave o absence policies
below. Readmission ollowing leaves o more than two academic years may be granted
in accordance with and upon completion o the terms o a plan approved by the dean
prior to the student taking the leave. Such extended leaves may be arranged or personal
or academic reasons.
Readmission aer a leave o more than two academic years may be conditional upon
less than ull credit being allowed or prior work completed. In such cases, with the
consent o the dean, the student will not be excluded rom taking courses or which prior
credit had been earned. The original credit or such courses will be canceled. Tuition will
be charged in accordance with the rates prevailing at the time o readmission.
Readmission in any circumstances other than those described may be sought by
petition to the Student Petitions Committee.
Students on leave o absence will be charged a special roster ee o per term to be
maintained on the school records during periods o nonattendance.
A student who must interrupt study because o illness or injury may be granted a medical
leave o absence with the approval o the dean or the dean’s delegate, on the written
recommendation o a physician on the sta o Yale Health.
The Law School reserves the right to place a student on a mandatory medical leave o
absence when, on recommendation o the director o Yale Health or the chie o the Men-
tal Health and Counseling department, the dean o the School determines that, because
o a medical condition, the student is a danger to sel or others, the student has seriously
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disrupted others in the student’s residential or academic communities, or the student has
reused to cooperate with eorts deemed necessary by Yale Health and the dean to make
such determinations. Each case will be assessed individually based on all relevant actors,
including, but not limited to, the level o risk presented and the availability o reasonable
modifications. Reasonable modifications do not include undamental alterations to the
student’s academic, residential, or other relevant communities or programs; in addition,
reasonable modifications do not include those that unduly burden University resources.
An appeal o such a leave must be made in writing to the dean o the Law School no
later than seven days rom the eective date o the leave.
An incident that gives rise to voluntary or mandatory leave o absence may also result
in subsequent disciplinary action.
Beore a student on medical leave may register or a subsequent term at the Law
School, the student must secure written permission to return rom a physician at Yale
Health and must comply with the requirements or readmission set orth by the dean.
The general policies governing all leaves o absence, described above, shall apply to
medical leaves.
A student who is making satisactory progress toward degree requirements and wishes
or needs to interrupt study temporarily or reasons o pregnancy or childrearing may be
granted a leave o absence or parental responsibilities. Any student planning to have
or care or a child is encouraged to meet with the dean or the dean’s delegate to discuss
leaves and other short-term arrangements. The general policies governing all leaves are
described above. The general policies governing health coverage or leaves o absence are
described in the chapter Yale University Resources and Services, under Health Services.
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Students who wish or need to interrupt their studies to perorm U.S. military service
are subject to a separate U.S. military leave readmissions policy. In the event a student
withdraws or takes a leave o absence rom Yale Law School to serve in the U.S. military,
the student will be entitled to guaranteed readmission under the ollowing conditions:
. The student must have served in the U.S. Armed Forces or a period o more than
thirty consecutive days;
. The student must give advance written or oral notice o such service to the dean or
the dean’s delegate. In providing the advance notice the student does not need to
indicate an intent to return. This advance notice need not come directly rom the
student, but rather, can be made by an appropriate ocer o the U.S. Armed Forces
or ocial o the U.S. Department o Deense. Notice is not required i precluded by
military necessity. In all cases, this notice requirement can be ulfilled at the time the
student seeks readmission, by submitting an attestation that the student perormed
the service.
. The student must not be away rom the School to perorm U.S. military service or
a period exceeding five years (this includes all previous absences to perorm U.S.
military service but does not include any initial period o obligated service). I a
student’s time away rom the School to perorm U.S. military service exceeds five
years because the student is unable to obtain release orders through no ault o the
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student or the student was ordered to or retained on active duty, the student should
contact the dean or the dean’s delegate to determine i the student remains eligible or
guaranteed readmission.
. The student must notiy the School within three years o the end o U.S. military
service o the intention to return. However, a student who is hospitalized or recover-
ing rom an illness or injury incurred in or aggravated during the U.S. military service
has up until two years aer recovering rom the illness or injury to notiy the School
o the intent to return.
. The student cannot have received a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge or have
been sentenced in a court-martial.
A student who meets all o these conditions will be readmitted or the next term, unless
the student requests a later date o readmission. A student who ails to meet one o these
requirements may still be readmitted under the general readmission policy but is not
guaranteed readmission.
Upon returning to the School, the student will resume education without repeating
completed course work or courses interrupted by U.S. military service. The student will
have the same enrolled status last held and with the same academic standing. For the
first academic year in which the student returns, the student will be charged the tuition
and ees that would have been assessed or the academic year in which the student le
the institution. Yale may charge up to the amount o tuition and ees other students are
assessed, however, i veteran’s education benefits will cover the dierence between the
amounts currently charged other students and the amount charged or the academic year
in which the student le.
In the case o a student who is not prepared to resume studies with the same academic
status at the same point at which the student le or who will not be able to complete
the program o study, the School will undertake reasonable eorts to help the student
become prepared. I aer reasonable eorts, the School determines that the student
remains unprepared or will be unable to complete the program, or aer the School
determines that there are no reasonable eorts it can take, the School may deny the
student readmission.
Extending Time for Completion of Degree
Yale Law School requires students to complete their work or the J.D. degree in six
terms in residence or the equivalent thereo. The Law School recognizes, however, that
some students have special needs—arising because o serious illness, severe economic
constraints, or extraordinary amilial obligations—to extend their period o study. In
such circumstances, students may petition to reduce their course load or a number o
terms. Such petitions are subject to the ollowing conditions:
. All students must complete the required work o the first term on a ull-load basis.
. Upon satisactory completion o the first term, a student may petition to reduce the
work o any one term rom the normal minimum o units to ewer units. But in no
event may a student enroll, even on a reduced-load basis, or ewer than units per
term. Ordinarily permission shall be granted only in cases o serious illness, severe
economic need, or extraordinary amilial obligation.
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. Students who receive permission to pursue some o their work on a reduced-load
basis must complete all required units o satisactory work in no more than eight
terms o residence.
. Upon acceptance by the Law School and beore submitting a deposit, students may
request that the dean rule on whether their particular situation justifies a reduced-
load curriculum, as described above, aer the first term. Such a ruling would be
conditional on the continuation, aer the first term, o the situation that made
reduced-load law study appropriate.
Credit for Work Done at Another Law School
A student wishing to obtain credit toward the J.D. degree or work done at another
law school must petition the dean or permission. The dean shall ordinarily grant such
permission only in cases o significant personal hardship. To grant such permission, the
dean must find that the proposed program o study is acceptable and that it will count or
no more than units o credit toward meeting Yale Law School’s degree requirements.
Such credit will be given only or work completed in residence at the other law school,
with a weighted average determined in advance by the dean, that would be at least the
equivalent o a Pass at Yale Law School. Students denied permission by the dean may
appeal to the Student Petitions Committee. No more than one year o residence and the
associated units o credit will be granted or work taken at another school. Work done
at another law school will not be accepted in satisaction o the writing requirements.
Admission to practice law depends not only upon adequate academic perormance in
law school and successul completion o the bar examination, but also upon satisaction
o the requirements o the particular jurisdiction as to subject matter and proo o good
character. These requirements dier rom state to state, and students should inorm
themselves o the requirements o the jurisdictions in which they are interested. Because
some states have early registration requirements, students should check state rules as
soon as possible.
The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law (Ph.D.)
In conjunction with the Graduate School o Arts and Sciences at Yale University, the
Law School oers a Ph.D. in Law program, the first o its kind in the United States.
This program prepares students who have earned a J.D. at an American Bar Associa
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tion–accredited law school to embark upon a career in the legal academy or other careers
that require a scholarly mastery o law. The program gives students a broad oundation
in the canonical texts and methods o legal scholarship and supports students in produc-
ing original scholarship in the orm o a dissertation. The program strongly encourages,
but does not require, interdisciplinary approaches to the study o law. Full details on
this program are available in the Bulletin o the Graduate School o Arts and Sciences,
available online at https://bulletin.yale.edu.
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The Degree of Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.)
The Doctor o the Science o Law (J.S.D.) program is designed or graduates o the
LL.M. program at Yale Law School who intend to teach law. To qualiy or the J.S.D.
degree, an admitted candidate must submit a dissertation that makes a substantial
contribution to legal scholarship.
J.S.D. candidates write their dissertation under the supervision o a committee com-
prised o a aculty supervisor, who must be a tenured Yale Law School aculty member,
and at least two additional readers. When a aculty supervisor is no longer willing or able
to serve in that capacity, candidates will have up to two terms to arrange or a substitute
aculty supervisor beore being withdrawn rom the program.
J.S.D. candidates demonstrating satisactory academic progress may petition or an
extension o candidacy past the fih year with support o their aculty supervisor.
A leave o absence or medical, amily, personal or mandatory national or military
service reasons may be granted by the assistant dean or director o graduate programs
with the permission o the aculty supervisor. Leaves are limited to two years (our
terms). Students requiring a longer leave will need to apply or readmission.
Aer a dissertation has been approved by the candidate’s dissertation committee and
the aculty o Yale Law School, the director o graduate programs shall submit a copy
(either printed or as a PDF) to the Law Library to be available as a permanent part o the
Law Library collection. For up to six months ollowing aculty approval o the degree, the
degree candidate may submit a revised version (correcting typographical errors, revising
ootnotes, or making other changes approved by the candidate’s committee). Classified
or restricted research is not accepted as part o the dissertation.
I the dissertation or any portion o it is thereaer published, the published ver-
sion shall state that it has been submitted in partial ulfillment o the requirements or
a graduate law degree at Yale Law School. Candidates may petition the Law School’s
Graduate Policy Committee to limit electronic and public access to their dissertations, but
permission will be approved only or compelling reasons. Under normal circumstances,
all dissertations must be available or inspection by any member o the Yale University
aculty or administration.
Satisactory Academic Progress (SAP) will be assessed at the end o each academic
year or J.S.D. candidates. Quantitative (pace) measures: J.S.D. candidates must spend
at least two terms in residence at Yale Law School. This requirement may be satisfied
by residence as an LL.M. candidate. The J.S.D. dissertation must be completed and
approved by the student’s dissertation committee by May o the fih year aer J.S.D.
admission. Qualitative measures: J.S.D. candidates must demonstrate satisactory prog-
ress toward completion o the dissertation in the annual Dissertation Progress Report
(DPR). Candidates shall submit a detailed report o their research, writing, and proes-
sional activities at the end o each academic year. This report must be certified by the
candidate’s aculty supervisor, who must confirm that the candidate is making adequate
progress each academic year. Candidates who ail to file their annual DPR, or whose
academic progress has been deemed unsatisactory by their aculty supervisor, will be
withdrawn rom the program.
Admission to the J.S.D. program does not carry with it a commitment o financial
support. Financial aid is awarded based on demonstrated financial need only, and the
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extent and conditions o any support will be individually arranged. Need-based support
will be provided to all eligible students or a maximum period o two academic years
(our terms) in residence. A need-based, summer stipend or up to three summers may
be provided to support ull-time work on the dissertation in New Haven. More than two
academic years in residence may be allowed i candidates have unding or tuition, living
expenses, etc.; are making good progress on their dissertations; and have approval rom
their dissertation supervisors. Students who have completed two years in residence may
apply or an additional nine months o need-based financial aid, which will be awarded
annually on a competitive basis.
J.S.D. candidates demonstrating satisactory academic progress may petition or an
extension o candidacy past the fih year with support o their aculty supervisor.
For inormation on admission procedures or the J.S.D. program, please see the
chapter Admissions, Expenses, and Financial Aid.
The Degree of Master of Laws (LL.M.)
Each year, the Law School admits a limited number o graduate students to pursue stud-
ies in law beyond the first proessional degree. Admission is generally open only to those
committed to a career in teaching law.
Graduate students are admitted or one year o study leading to the degree o Master
o Laws (LL.M.). Each LL.M. student is invited to utilize the resources o the Law School
to create a program o study that will best prepare that individual or a career in research
and teaching. Beyond meeting credit requirements or the degree, no uniorm course o
study is prescribed or LL.M. students. An LL.M. student’s program o study consists
o a minimum o units o credit (at least units per term, unless approval is granted
by the assistant dean or director o graduate programs), which must include at least
units o regular course oerings (in the Law School or in other schools at the University).
With approval o the instructor and a Law School aculty member, up to units o credit
toward the LL.M. degree may be earned in courses in other schools in the University.
Up to units o research supervised by a Law School aculty member may be counted
toward the LL.M. degree. Participation in reading groups and supervised reading may
not exceed units and does not count toward the required units o regular course
oerings but may count toward the required units. During the program, a minimum
o units (or units i a student takes a first-term ungraded course) must be taken or
a grade. I a student is given the option to change the grading basis o a course, clinic, or
program o individual work to credit/ail, the student must exercise the option within
the first two weeks o the term by filing the appropriate orm with the Oce o the
Registrar by the published deadline or the term. Aer this deadline, the grade mode
may not be changed by the student or the aculty member.
Satisactory Academic Progress (SAP) will be assessed each term or LL.M. students.
Quantitative (pace) measures: Each student in the LL.M. program must complete a
minimum o credit hours over the course o two terms in residence. To maintain
ull-time status in good standing, each student must be enrolled in to credit hours
each term, unless the assistant dean or director o graduate programs has approved an
exception. LL.M. students are expected to complete all degree requirements by the end
o the spring term o the academic year during which they matriculate. Each student
must complete percent o all credit hours attempted by the end o the second term
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unless, in extraordinary circumstances, an extension has been approved by the Graduate
Policy Committee. In the event o such an extension, all LL.M. work must be completed
successully by December o the calendar year in which the student was to have gradu-
ated. Students who have not successully completed the LL.M. requirements by this time
will be withdrawn. To maintain SAP, each student in the LL.M. program must complete
percent o the credit hours attempted by the end o the first term o study and
percent o all credit hours attempted by the end o the second term. Qualitative measures:
Students will be disqualified as LL.M. candidates and will not be allowed to continue
in the program i they receive one Failure or more than one Low Pass during the two
academic terms. A student who has been disqualified as an LL.M. candidate or ailure
to maintain satisactory grades will not be readmitted without a avorable vote o the
Faculty in Executive Session.
Admission does not carry with it a commitment o financial support. Financial aid
is awarded based on demonstrated financial need only, and the extent and conditions o
any support will be individually arranged.
For inormation on admission procedures or the LL.M., please see the chapter
Admissions, Expenses, and Financial Aid.
The Degree of Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.)
The Law School established the Master o Studies in Law (M.S.L.) degree program or
a small number o non-lawyers who seek to obtain a basic amiliarity with legal thought
and to explore the relation o law to their intellectual and proessional development. It
is a one-year terminal program designed or those who do not desire a proessional law
degree, but who are interested in a rigorous curriculum and a ormal program o study.
Students in the M.S.L. program are ordinarily experienced scholars with doctorates who
have research or teaching objectives in mind, or mid-career journalists seeking an inten-
sive immersion in legal thinking so that they are better able to inorm their audiences
upon their return to journalism. Those who have completed a proessional law degree
are not eligible or the program. Participants in the M.S.L. program are not eligible or
subsequent admission to the J.D. program at Yale Law School.
Candidates or the M.S.L. degree are required to complete at least three o the first-
term courses ( units), plus an additional units, or a total o at least units. There
are our first-term courses (Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Admin-
istration, and Procedure; see First Term, in the chapter Academic Requirements and
Options). The M.S.L. student may substitute an elective or one o the first-term courses.
The second term is entirely elective and aords opportunities or independent research
and clinical experience in addition to regular courses and seminars. With approval o the
instructor and a Law School aculty member, up to units o credit toward the M.S.L.
degree may be earned in courses in other schools at the University. Up to units o credit
toward the M.S.L. degree may be earned rom research supervised by a Law School
aculty member; participation in reading groups and supervised reading may not exceed
units.
A minimum o units o the required units must be graded units. I a student is
given the option to change the grading basis o a course, clinic, or program o individual
work to credit/ail, the student must exercise the option within the first two weeks o
the term by filing the appropriate orm with the Oce o the Registrar by the published
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deadline or the term. Aer this deadline, the grade mode may not be changed by the
student or the aculty member.
Satisactory Academic Progress (SAP) will be assessed each term or M.S.L. students.
Quantitative (pace) measures: Each student in the M.S.L. program must complete a
minimum o credit hours over the course o two terms in residence. Each student
must successully complete at least three o the first-term courses (Constitutional Law,
Contracts, Criminal Law and Administration, and Procedure) during the all term.
Each student must be enrolled in at least credit hours each term. M.S.L. students
are expected to complete all degree requirements by the end o the spring term o the
academic year during which they matriculate. Each student must complete percent
o all credit hours attempted by the end o the second term unless, in extraordinary cir-
cumstances, an extension has been approved by the Graduate Policy Committee. In the
event o such an extension, all M.S.L. work must be completed successully by December
o the calendar year in which the student was to have graduated. Students who have
not successully completed the M.S.L. requirements by this time will be withdrawn.
To maintain SAP, each student in the M.S.L. program must complete percent o the
credit hours attempted by the end o the first term o study and percent o all credit
hours attempted by the end o the second term. Qualitative measures: Students will be
disqualified as M.S.L. candidates and will not be allowed to continue in the program i
they receive one Failure or more than one Low Pass during the two academic terms. A
student who has been disqualified as an M.S.L. candidate or ailure to maintain satisac-
tory grades will not be readmitted without a avorable vote o the Faculty in Executive
Session.
Admission to candidacy does not carry with it a commitment o financial support.
Financial aid is awarded based on demonstrated financial need only, and the extent and
conditions o any support will be individually arranged.
For inormation on admission procedures or the M.S.L. program, please see the
chapter Admissions, Expenses, and Financial Aid.
The Yale Law School is committed to the protection o ree inquiry and expression
in the classroom and throughout the school community. In this, the School reflects
the University’s commitment to and policy on reedom o expression as eloquently
stated in the Woodward Report (Report o the Committee on Freedom o Expression
at Yale, ). See https://studentlife.yale.edu/guidance-regarding-free-expression-and-
peaceable-assembly-students-yale.
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Admissions
The small size o Yale Law School—approximately in each entering class—requires
an extremely selective admissions process. Admission is subject to approval by the dean,
pursuant to policies promulgated by the aculty o the School and the Corporation o
Yale University. Overall, the Law School seeks the most promising students in terms o
proessional and academic distinction. Students are considered or admission regardless
o financial need.
To apply or the class entering in August , an applicant must apply through the
Credential Assembly Service o the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) and:
. Have received beore registration a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) rom an
approved undergraduate institution,
. Take the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT or LSAT-Flex) or take the Graduate
Record Examinations General Test (GRE or GRE General Test at Home),
. Complete and electronically submit an application by February , ,
. Submit transcripts rom all undergraduate and graduate schools attended,
. Submit at least two letters o recommendation, and
. Pay the nonreundable application ee o (or receive a ee waiver).
Admitted applicants must submit the Intent to Enroll orm to secure their place in the
next entering class and must adhere to its requirements. Failure to ollow the Intent to
Enroll orm may result in revocation o an oer o admission. Admitted students may
request a deerral o their enrollment aer submitting their Intent to Enroll orm, and
such requests will be considered and may be granted. Admitted and deerred students
must adhere to all o the conditions set orth in the Deerral Request Policy.
Any applicant who has been expelled rom any law, undergraduate, graduate, or
proessional school or deficiency in scholarship or because o misconduct is ineligible or
admission. Any material misstatements on the application orm or any orm o applica-
tion dishonesty (including raudulent practices relating to the LSAT or GRE) will be
considered disqualiying misconduct by the admissions committee.
Incoming first-term students must submit no later than October o their first term
a final, ocial transcript rom the institution that awarded their undergraduate degree.
Students who ail to do so will be withdrawn rom the Law School.
All incoming J.D. students must start in the all term. The Law School does not have
an evening division, nor is there a summer session. Yale Law School oers no online or
correspondence courses.
Any requests or exceptions to the admissions and application requirements stated
above should be addressed by email to [email protected] or in writing to the
Admissions Oce, Yale Law School, PO Box , New Haven CT -. For
additional inormation about admissions policies and procedures please reer to the
website https://law.yale.edu/admissions/jd-admissions.
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Transfer Students/Advanced Standing
Students who have completed one year o ull-time course work (or the equivalent) in
residence at a U.S. law school approved by the American Bar Association may apply to
transer to Yale; at least two years (our terms) o course work must be done at Yale Law
School. Typically, the completion o law school units is equivalent to the completion
o one year o coursework. Upon admission, the Registrar will determine the number o
units that will transer to Yale Law School. An oer o admission may be revoked i upon
the Registrar’s review an admitted student does not have sucient equivalent law school
units to be considered a second-year student. A maximum o units will be transerred
toward the J.D. requirements at Yale Law School. Transer students are not eligible to
petition or joint-degree status.
Applicants in special programs in American Bar Association-approved U.S. law
schools who have completed the first year o law school while completing the require-
ments or a bachelor’s degree may be considered or transer. To be considered, an
applicant must have received a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) beore matriculating
at Yale Law School.
To apply or the second-year class entering in August , an applicant must apply
through the Credential Assembly Service o the Law School Admission Council (LSAC)
and:
. Complete and electronically submit an application by June , ,
. Submit transcripts rom all undergraduate, graduate, and law schools attended,
. Submit at least two letters o recommendation rom law school proessors, and
. Pay the nonreundable application ee o (or receive a ee waiver).
Applicants rom oreign law schools should apply or admission to the first year o
the J.D. program. Though granted only in rare circumstances, requests or advanced
standing based on work done outside the United States should be made aer admission
to the first-year program.
Visiting Students
In special circumstances, a student enrolled in a J.D. program at an American Bar Asso-
ciation-approved law school may apply or admission on a ull-time, nondegree basis.
Visiting students may attend or one or two terms and earn credit toward a degree at their
home institutions. The admissions committee considers past academic perormance as
well as applicants’ special circumstances when rendering decisions on such requests.
A visiting student application orm may be obtained by sending an email to admissions.
[email protected]. A completed application or visiting students contains the same materials
required or transer applicants. Additionally, a visiting application must include a cover
letter explaining the applicant’s reason or visiting and a letter rom the applicant’s law
school granting permission to visit and indicating any conditions imposed on the credits
earned at Yale Law School.
Visiting students must pay ull tuition to Yale Law School and are eligible to apply or
ederal and supplemental loans, but are not eligible or Yale Law School scholarships/
grants. Visiting students may have limited or restricted access to participation in student-
run journals and may have a lower priority than Yale Law students in limited-enrollment
courses.
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Financing Law School
Quality legal education is expensive, and the Law School draws on the University, alumni,
and riends to keep annual tuition well below the per student cost o education. Through
a combination o loans, grants, and postgraduate loan orgiveness programs, the School
seeks to reduce urther the burden o education costs on those students demonstrating
financial need. Approximately three-quarters o the student body receives some orm o
financial assistance. Extensive assistance to meet the cost o loan repayment or graduates
is provided through the Career Options Assistance Program. Yale Law School is also an
approved program or educational benefits rom the Veterans Administration.
Tuition, including mandatory ees, in – is , per term. The total yearly
ee is ,, not including other necessary expenses such as books, ood, housing,
hospitalization insurance ees, etc. Tuition and ees are payable beore the beginning o
each term at the University Oce o Student Financial Services.
Previously deerred students who paid tuition deposits when they committed to
enroll will have those deposits credited to their student account. Should a previously
deerred student withdraw beore registration in the all, all previously paid tuition
deposits will be oreited.
Students will be charged a special roster ee o per term to be maintained on the
school records during periods o nonattendance.
Tuition Rebate and Refund Policy
On the basis o the ederal regulations governing the return o ederal student aid (Title
IV) unds or withdrawn students, the rebate and reund o tuition is subject to the
ollowing policy:
. For purposes o determining the reund o Title IV unds, any student who withdraws
rom the Law School or any reason during the first percent o the term will be
subject to a pro rata schedule that will be used to determine the amount o Title IV
unds a student has earned at the time o withdrawal. Funds are earned according to
the percentage o the term completed. A student who withdraws aer the percent
point has earned percent o the Title IV unds. In –, the last days or
reunding ederal student aid unds will be November , , in the all term and
March , , in the spring term.
. For purposes o determining the reund o institutional aid unds and or students
who have not received financial aid, tuition will be rebated in accordance with the
ollowing policy:
a. percent o tuition will be rebated or withdrawals that occur on or beore the
end o the first percent o the term: September , , in the all term and
January , , in the spring term.
b. A rebate o one-hal ( percent) o tuition will be granted or withdrawals that
occur aer the first percent but on or beore the last day o the first quarter o
the term: September , , in the all term and February , , in the spring
term.
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c. A rebate o one-quarter ( percent) o tuition will be granted or withdrawals that
occur aer the first quarter o a term but on or beore the day o midterm: October
, , in the all term and March , , in the spring term.
d. Students who withdraw or any reason aer midterm will not receive a rebate o
any portion o tuition.
. The death o a student shall cancel charges or tuition as o the date o death, and the
bursar will adjust the tuition on a pro rata basis.
. I the student has received student loans or other orms o financial aid, unds will be
returned in the order prescribed by ederal regulations; namely, first to Federal Direct
Unsubsidized Loans, i any; then to Federal Direct Graduate PLUS Loans; next to any
other ederal, state, private, or institutional scholarships and loans; and finally, any
remaining balance to the student.
. Recipients o ederal and/or institutional loans who withdraw are required to have an
exit interview beore leaving Yale. Students leaving Yale receive an exit packet rom
Student Financial Services with instructions on completing this process.
The estimated minimum amounts required or all expenses or the academic year,
including tuition, are stated in the section on financial aid, below.
Student accounts, billing, and related services are administered through the Oce
o Student Accounts, located at Church Street. The oce’s website is https://
student-accounts.yale.edu.
The Student Account is a record o all the direct charges or a student’s Yale educa-
tion such as tuition, room, board, ees, and other academically related items assessed by
oces throughout the University. It is also a record o all payments, financial aid, and
other credits applied toward these charges.
Students and student-designated proxies can view all activity posted to their Stu-
dent Account in real time through the University’s online billing and payment system,
YalePay (https://student-accounts.yale.edu/yalepay). At the beginning o each month,
email reminders to log in to YalePay to review the Student Account activity are sent to all
students at their ocial Yale email address and to all student-designated YalePay proxies.
Payment is due by p.m. Eastern Time on the last day o the month.
Yale does not mail paper bills or generate monthly statements. Students and their
authorized proxies can generate their own account statements in YalePay in pd orm to
print or save. The statements can be generated by term or or a date range and can be
submitted to employers, K plans, /College Savings Plans, scholarship agencies,
or other organizations or documentation o the charges.
Students can grant others proxy access to YalePay to view student account activity,
set up payment plans, and make online payments. For more inormation, see Proxy
Access and Authorization (https://student-accounts.yale.edu/understanding-your-bill/
your-student-account).
The Oce o Student Accounts will impose late ees o per month (up to a
total o per term) i any part o the term bill, less Yale-administered loans and
scholarships that have been applied or on a timely basis, is not paid when due. Students
who have not paid their student account term charges by the due date will also be placed
on Financial Hold. The hold will remain until the term charges have been paid in ull.
Admissions, Expenses, and Financial Aid
While on Financial Hold, the University will not ulfill requests or transcripts or provide
diplomas and reserves the right to withhold registration or withdraw the student or
financial reasons.
Payment Options
There are a variety o options oered or making payments toward a student’s Student
Account. Please note:
• All bills must be paid in U.S. currency.
• Yale does not accept credit or debit cards or Student Account payments.
• Payments made to a Student Account in excess o the balance due (net o pending
financial aid credits) are not allowed on the Student Account. Yale reserves the right
to return any overpayments.
Online Payments through YalePay
Yale’s recommended method o payment is online through YalePay (https://student-
accounts.yale.edu/yalepay). Online payments are easy and convenient and can be made by
anyone with a U.S. checking or savings account. There is no charge to use this service.
Bank inormation is password-protected and secure, and there is a printable confirma-
tion receipt. Payments are immediately posted to the Student Account, which allows
students to make payments at any time up to p.m. Eastern Time on the due date o the
bill, rom any location, and avoid late ees.
For those who choose to pay by check, a remittance advice and mailing instructions
are available on YalePay. Checks should be made payable to Yale University, in U.S.
dollars, and drawn on a U.S. bank. To avoid late ees, please allow or adequate mailing
time to ensure that payment is received by p.m. Eastern Time on the due date.
Cash and check payments are also accepted at the Oce o Student Accounts, located
at Church Street and open Monday through Friday rom : a.m. to : p.m.
Yale University partners with Flywire, a leading provider o international payment
solutions, to provide a ast and secure way to make international payments to a Student
Account within YalePay. Students and authorized proxies can initiate international pay-
ments rom the Make Payment tab in YalePay by selecting “International Payment via
Flywire” as the payment method, and then selecting the country rom which payment
will be made to see available payment methods. International payment via Flywire allows
students and authorized proxies to save on bank ees and exchange rates, track the pay-
ment online rom start to finish, and have access to / multilingual customer support.
For more inormation on making international payments via Flywire, see International
Payments Made Easy at https://student-accounts.yale.edu/yalepay.
A processing charge o will be assessed or payments rejected or any reason by
the bank on which they were drawn. In addition, or every returned ACH payment due
to insucient unds made through YalePay, Flywire will charge a penalty ee o per
occurrence. Furthermore, the ollowing penalties may apply i a payment is rejected:
. I the payment was or a term bill, late ees o per month will be charged or the
period the bill was unpaid, as noted above.
. I the payment was or a term bill to permit registration, the student’s registration
may be revoked.
. I the payment was given to settle an unpaid balance in order to receive a diploma, the
University may reer the account to an attorney or collection.
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Yale Payment Plan
A Yale Payment Plan provides parents and students with the option to pay education
expenses monthly. It is designed to relieve the pressure o lump-sum payments by allow-
ing amilies to spread payments over a period o months without incurring any interest
charges. Participation is optional and elected on a term basis. The cost to sign up is
per term.
Depending on the date o enrollment, students may be eligible or up to five install-
ments or the all and spring terms. Payment Plan installments will be automatically
deducted on the th o each month rom the bank account specified when enrolling in
the plan. For enrollment deadlines and additional details concerning the Yale Payment
Plan, see https://student-accounts.yale.edu/ypp.
Bill Payment and Pending Military Benefits
Yale will not impose any penalty, including the assessment o late ees, the denial o
access to classes, libraries, or other acilities, or the requirement that a student borrow
additional unds, on any student because o the student’s inability to meet their financial
obligations to the institution, when the delay is due to the delayed disbursement o
unding rom VA under chapter or .
Yale will permit a student to attend or participate in their course o education during
the period beginning on the date on which the student provides to Yale a certificate o
eligibility or entitlement to educational assistance under chapter or and ending on
the earlier o the ollowing dates: () the date on which payment rom VA is made to
Yale; () ninety days aer the date Yale certifies tuition and ees ollowing the receipt o
the certificate o eligibility.
Interruption or Temporary Suspension of University Services or
Programs
Certain events that are beyond the University’s control may cause or require the interrup-
tion or temporary suspension o some or all services and programs customarily urnished
by the University. These events include, but are not limited to, epidemics or other public
health emergencies; storms, floods, earthquakes, or other natural disasters; war, ter-
rorism, rioting, or other acts o violence; loss o power, water, or other utility services;
and strikes, work stoppages, or job actions. In the ace o such events, the University
may, at its sole discretion, provide substitute services and programs, suspend services
and programs, or issue appropriate reunds. Such decisions shall be made at the sole
discretion o the University.
Financial Aid
Applicants or financial aid who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents must complete
a Free Application or Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which is available online at https://
fafsa.ed.gov. A Financial Aid Application and Scholarship Tool (FAAST) application is
also required rom all applicants or financial aid and is available online at https://faast.
law.yale.edu. Applications must be submitted by April or continuing students. Admit-
ted students should submit their FAFSA and FAAST as soon as possible aer admittance.
Admissions, Expenses, and Financial Aid
The estimated budget or a single student or local transportation, books, and all
living costs or the academic year – is ,. Individual cases may, o course,
vary rom these estimates, but all financial aid need determinations are based on these
estimates.
Among the goals o the aid policy are allocating grant resources to the neediest stu-
dents and balancing graduates’ educational indebtedness. The Law School thereore uses
a ormula that increases the proportion o grant as total need increases. Students whose
total need is relatively low will normally receive only loan assistance. While the ormula
varies each year, in – students are expected to meet ,–, (depend-
ing on their class year) o need with loans, typically relying on ederally guaranteed
loans to the maximum extent possible. The remainder o each award above the required
loan portion is ordinarily met through grants rom the Law School. J.D. students with
the highest level o financial need will be awarded a ull-tuition scholarship through the
Soledad ’ and Robert Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program.
In calculating individual financial aid awards, the student’s financial resources—
including student assets, summer and term-time employment, and spouse’s and parents’
contribution—are taken into account. The Law School treats students who are twenty-
nine years old or older as o December o the academic year or which aid is sought as
financially independent rom their parents. For students twenty-seven and twenty-eight
years old as o December , only one-hal o the calculated parental contribution will be
treated as a resource.
A handbook containing detailed inormation on financial aid policies is available rom
the Financial Aid Oce website, https://law.yale.edu/financialaid. The director and sta
o the oce are available to discuss financial aid matters with students.
The Summer Public Interest Fellowship (SPIF) program provides unds to Yale students
working at public interest, government, and nonprofit organizations. In the summer
o , the Law School provided ellowships or more than students in the United
States and around the world.
Student eligibility is based on financial need. Those who do not meet the needs test
may still be able to receive SPIF unding or loans. In , students are eligible to receive
up to , through SPIF.
Yale Law School has long encouraged its graduates to consider the broad spectrum o
careers available to them. In the School established the Career Options Assistance
Program (COAP) to mitigate the influence o educational debts on the career choices o
its graduates. COAP is one o the most distinctive, generous, and flexible loan orgive-
ness programs available at any law school.
COAP provides grants to cover the shortall between graduates’ educational loan
payments and the amounts graduates can aord to pay rom relatively modest incomes.
Unlike many other loan orgiveness programs, eligibility is based upon compensation
levels, not type o employment. COAP participants work in local, state, and ederal
government; nonprofit organizations serving the public interest; academia; and private
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practice; among other areas. COAP assistance is also available to judicial clerks in the
orm o loans. In order to be eligible, participants must provide certification that their
employer complies with Yale’s Non-Discrimination Policy, available at https://law.yale.
edu/sites/default/files/area/department/cdo/document/nondiscrimination_policy_2_12_20.
pdf.
COAP grants are calculated on the basis o the participant’s income, indebtedness,
and an imputed loan repayment schedule. Participants’ gross income is adjusted with
regard to spouses, dependents, and assets, and or graduates whose adjusted income is
less than a certain “threshold” level, COAP covers the entire calculated repayment or
qualified educational loans. Those with adjusted incomes over the threshold are expected
to contribute a percentage o their income in excess o that amount toward repayment.
Provisions are made or parental leave and or part-time work.
For urther inormation, please contact the Financial Aid Oce at financialaid.law@
yale.edu.
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Applicants or this program must apply through the Graduate School o Arts and
Sciences at https://gsas.yale.edu/admissions/degree-program-application-process. General
inormation about the program can be ound at https://law.yale.edu/phd.
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Admissions
A J.S.D. applicant must:
. Show promise o superior scholarship. Admission to the J.S.D. program is highly
selective. It does not ollow automatically rom admission to the LL.M. program or
rom the award o the LL.M. degree, but rests entirely on the graduate committee’s
independent judgment o an applicant’s qualifications. The Yale LL.M. degree must
ordinarily have been awarded within the five years preceding the student’s J.S.D.
application.
. Submit:
(a) a completed J.S.D. application orm, plus a letter o application;
(b) a dissertation proposal;
(c) statements o contingent approval o three committee members willing to serve as
supervisor and readers. The committee should be composed o at least two members
o the Yale Law School aculty, one o whom must be the chair. A ull-time aculty
member o Yale University may serve as a second reader;
(d) letters o recommendation rom two members o the Yale Law School aculty;
(e) a writing sample, which would ordinarily be a paper written as an LL.M. student;
( ) a current résumé or curriculum vitae.
The application and supporting materials should be submitted to the J.S.D. program
by March , . All J.S.D. admission decisions are typically announced in late April.
Applicants who have been denied admission three times may not file urther applications.
Admissions, Expenses, and Financial Aid
An LL.M. applicant must:
. I rom the United States, have graduated, or expect to graduate, with high rank
rom a law school that is a member o the Association o American Law Schools or
approved by the American Bar Association. I rom another country, ordinarily have
graduated, or expect to graduate, with high rank rom a law school or law aculty
with standards substantially equivalent to those o U.S. law schools. All oers o
admission are contingent upon graduation. The Law School reserves the right to
review or revoke admission i applicants ail to graduate with their degree cohort. As
a general rule, admission is not available to persons who have already obtained the
LL.M. degree or an equivalent degree rom another law school in the United States.
. Submit the ollowing materials by December , :
(a) a completed online application to Yale Law School along with the required essays;
(b) a current résumé or curriculum vitae;
(c) original or certified copies o all academic transcripts, rom studies both in law
and in other fields (or, in the case o international students, the nearest equivalent
record o courses, grades, and rank). I transcripts are not in English, the originals
must be accompanied by a certified English translation. Final ocial transcripts may
be certified electronic transcripts or traditional paper transcripts. In either case, they
must be sent to Yale Law School directly rom the issuing institution or its authorized
agent. Applicants must ollow instructions rom the Law School Admission Council
(LSAC) as to transcript submission;
(d) at least two and no more than our letters o recommendation rom law proessors
or other reerences commenting in detail on the academic and proessional qualifi-
cations o the applicant (letters must be in English or accompanied by an English
translation).
. Take the Test o English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), administered at centers
throughout the world by the Educational Testing Service, no later than November ,
, unless the applicant is a native speaker o English or the applicant’s undergradu-
ate education or first law degree was completed at an institution where English is the
language o instruction. The admissions committee requires a minimum score o
on the Internet-based TOEFL test. Yale Law School does not accept the IELTS
examination. Ocial documentation o language o instruction is required.
. Pay a nonreundable application ee o (USD).
Application orms may be accessed online at https://law.yale.edu/llm-admissions. Early
filing is recommended. On occasion, the Admissions Committee may also reach out
to individual candidates directly or additional inormation when the committee eels
this would be helpul in its deliberations. The LL.M. application and all supporting
documents must be submitted through the LSAC. It is the responsibility o the applicant
to ensure that all required documents are received by the LSAC in a timely manner.
Incomplete applications will not be considered or admission. Fees are nonreundable
in the event that an application is not complete. LL.M. admission decisions are typically
announced in mid-March. Previous applicants who were not admitted to the LL.M. pro-
gram must submit a completely new application and pay the application ee. Applicants
who have been denied admission three times may not file urther applications.
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Expenses and Financial Aid
Tuition and estimated living expenses or graduate students in the LL.M. program in
– are the same as or J.D. students (see Financing Law School, above). Tuition
and ees or resident J.S.D. students in – are , or the academic year. To
remain registered at Yale Law School, nonresident J.S.D. students are charged a
ee per term. An additional ee o will be charged upon approval o a dissertation.
Grants and loan unds or tuition and living expenses are awarded by the Law School
on the basis o the individual student’s demonstrated financial need, which includes an
assessment o student assets and, i the student is twenty-eight years o age or younger,
parental assets. Awards do not include unds or travel and research expenses. Applicants
to the graduate programs are urged to apply to sources outside Yale Law School or
support.
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Admissions
Applicants or this program must:
. Have a doctoral degree or be a doctoral candidate in a field other than law, unless the
applicant is a working journalist. Journalists must have earned at least a bachelor’s
degree.
. Submit:
(a) a completed application orm available at https://law.yale.edu/graduate/
msl_application.htm;
(b) a current résumé or curriculum vitae;
(c) a letter describing the applicant’s proessional experience and interest in the
program;
(d) ocial transcripts o all undergraduate and graduate work (transcripts must be
in English or accompanied by an English translation). Final ocial transcripts may
be certified electronic transcripts or traditional paper transcripts. In either case, they
must be sent to Yale Law School directly rom the issuing institution or its authorized
agent;
(e) at least three and no more than five letters o recommendation rom persons hav-
ing knowledge o the candidate’s academic ability and proessional promise (letters
must be in English or accompanied by an English translation);
( ) three to five examples o proessional work or those applying as journalists.
. Take the Test o English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), administered at centers
throughout the world by the Educational Testing Service, no later than November ,
, unless the applicant is a native speaker o English or the applicant’s undergradu-
ate education or first law degree was completed at an institution where English is the
language o instruction. The admissions committee requires a minimum score o
on the Internet-based TOEFL test. Yale Law School does not accept the IELTS
examination. Ocial documentation o language o instruction is required.
. Pay a nonreundable application ee o (USD).
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Previous applicants who were not admitted to the M.S.L. program must submit
a completely new application and pay the application ee. Applicants who have been
denied admission three times may not file urther applications.
The letter o application, supporting materials, and the nonreundable application
ee o payable to Yale Law School should be submitted to the M.S.L. Program, Yale
Law School, PO Box , New Haven CT -, by January , . All M.S.L.
admissions decisions are made and announced in March. Admission does not carry with
it a commitment o financial support. Financial aid is awarded based on demonstrated
financial need only, and the extent and conditions o any support will be individually
arranged.
Expenses and Financial Aid
Fees or the program are the same as or the J.D. program. Financial aid or M.S.L.
candidates is designed to supplement grants rom outside sources, sabbatical salaries,
and personal resources.
Grants and loan unds or tuition and living expenses are awarded by the Law School
on the basis o the individual student’s demonstrated financial need, which includes an
assessment o student assets and, i the student is twenty-eight years o age or younger,
parental assets. Awards do not include unds or travel and research expenses. Applicants
to the graduate programs are urged to apply to sources outside Yale Law School or
support.
Student Organizations and Journals
and Student Participation in Administration
The Yale Law School Chapter o the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
(ACS) aims to revitalize and transorm the legal debate by restoring to a central place
in American law the undamental principles o respect or human dignity, protection o
individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice.
The Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) supports the interests
o students o Asian Pacific American and Native American descent and raises awareness
o challenges acing minorities in the law.
The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) is concerned with issues aecting mem-
bers o the Arican diaspora and advances the interests o its members and the broader
Black community.
The Capital Assistance Project (CAP) matches YLS students with public deenders
rom around the country to provide research support or capital deense work. CAP also
raises public awareness about death penalty and indigent deense related issues.
The Catholic Law Students Association (CLSA) promotes vigorous discussion o and
growth in the Catholic aith at Yale Law School. The association meets regularly and
sponsors social events, social justice projects, academic speakers, and devotional prac-
tices. The association also connects with other Catholic communities at Yale, including
the St. Thomas More chaplaincy and Catholic student groups.
The Disabled Law Students Association (DLSA) aims to oster a sense o community
and increase the legal proession’s accessibility and cultural competency surrounding
disability, mental health conditions, and the like. DLSA provides individualized support
to members in accessing accommodations and ensuring their needs are being met at the
law school, in internships, and across other contexts.
The Dred Scott Society (DSS) is a group or all students o color (BIPOC and PGM)
who identiy as being descendants o oppressed, colonized, segregated, and enslaved
peoples.
The Election Law Society (ELS) introduces speakers and events with election law
scholars and practitioners to the YLS community. It brings events on topics in election
law, including campaign finance and voting rights issues, to YLS students and oers a
reading group on election law topics each semester.
First Generation Professionals (FGP) seeks to provide a sae and welcoming space or
Yale Law School students who are the first in their amilies to pursue a proessional
degree—primarily serving those who come rom low-income, working class, or non-
white-collar backgrounds—to discuss and assist each other with their concerns as they
navigate the environment o Yale Law School. Additionally, FGP advocates or policies
that better meet the needs o its members and seeks to oster a broader conversation
about class at Yale Law School.
Student Organizations and Journals
The Green Haven Prison Project (GHPP) brings law students and inmates together or
a seminar on legal and political issues concerning prisons.
The If/ When/How: Yale Law School chapter is dedicated to urther reproductive
justice through education, events, and policy advocacy on and beyond campus.
The Immigrant Justice Project (IJP) supports community organizations working on
immigrants’ rights issues in the Greater New Haven area. In addition, IJP works with
local, regional, and national immigrants’ rights organizations, including the national
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, on strategic litigation, direct services, and advocacy
surrounding immigrant justice. IJP also conducts annual trips to detention centers and
works with partner organizations in locations such as Texas; Washington, D.C.; and
Hartord, Connecticut.
The International Community @ YLS (InCo) is a group or all international students
across all academic programs at Yale Law School. The group provides programming
centered on career planning, immigration advocacy, and community building.
The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) is a student-run organization with
chapters at Yale Law School, New York University Law School, and Boalt School o Law
at Berkeley working to improve the plight o international reugees. IRAP’s mission is
to acilitate the resettlement o reugees rom abroad, improve U.S. policy toward the
reugee crisis, and ease the transition o newly resettled reugees to American lie.
The J. Reuben Clark Law Society serves members o the Church o Jesus Christ o
Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and others interested in participating in its discussions
and activities.
Just Vitae is ounded upon the principle that human lie is sacred and has inherent
dignity and believes the right to lie is inherent and inalienable; individuals or govern-
ments should not abridge it. The organization’s mission is to deend lie’s sanctity rom
conception until natural death. Just Vitae seeks to promote bioethical programming to
address legal questions rom the pro-lie perspective.
Korean Law Students Network (KLSN) provides a cultural, political, and social platorm
tailored to address topics pertinent to the Korean community, a orum or the greater
law school community to engage with Korean politics, law, and culture, and supports
the proessional development o members through alumni and employer networking.
KLSN connects the YLS Korean community with other Korean communities within and
outside Yale.
The Latinx Law Students Association (LLSA) promotes the academic, proessional, and
political interests o Latina/o students at Yale Law School.
The Law and Political Economy Group aims to oster an intellectual community or
students, aculty, and members o the Yale community that are interested in articulating
more democratic and egalitarian rameworks in legal thought.
Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) promotes justice or the Palestinian people
and believes in Palestinian rights because o a belie in the rights o all people. Yale LSJP
spreads awareness about the human rights violations occurring in Israel and Palestine
through hosting speaker events and other actions.
The Legal Priorities Society’s mission is to encourage Yale Law School students to
leverage their legal education to do the most social good.
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The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project is a collaborative teaching pro-
gram that sends law students into local public high schools to teach Constitutional Law.
Participants in this student-run organization can coach their students in a national moot
court competition, the first round o which is run by the Yale chapter in New Haven.
The Mental Health Advocacy, Resource, and Care Helpers (MARCH) aims to support
the Yale Law School community’s wellness and mental health by raising awareness o
mental health conditions, advocating or YLS and university policy changes, connecting
students to mental health and wellness resources, and building an engaged, inclusive
student community.
The Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association (MENALSA) provides
a orum or engaging the Yale Law School community on the legal, political, social, and
cultural realities o the peoples o North Arica and the Middle East, with particular ocus
on issues o discrimination, equality, citizenship, and human rights. It also serves as an
institutional home and social network or law students o Middle Eastern and North
Arican background or with an interest in the region.
The Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals is a competition in which each participant
writes an extensive appellate brie and presents an appellate oral argument on a case
scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court.
Motions invites students to engage their minds and bodies to engage and movement
and dance.
The Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA) serves as a vehicle or gathering Mus-
lims and others interested in learning about Islamic legal issues and issues o concern to
Muslims and other minorities.
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is dedicated to the need or basic change in the
structure o our political and economic system.
The Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) supports the interests
o students o Native American descent and works to advance and advocate or legal
and cultural issues aecting Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and
American Indian Nations.
Older Wiser Law Students (OWLS) osters a supportive community or students who
have taken significant time o prior to law school, are transitioning into second careers,
are married and/or parenting, or view their academic path as nontraditional.
OutLaws is an organization o lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer
(LGBTQ) members o the Law School. Its main goals are to provide a community or
LGBTQ-identified people within YLS and to advocate or LGBTQ issues both at YLS
and beyond.
The Plainti ’s Law Association aims to support law students interested in becoming
plainti-side attorneys who will represent the interests o victims, advocate or consum-
ers’ rights and equal access to justice, and ensure that any person who is injured by the
misconduct or negligence o others can obtain justice in America’s courtrooms, even
when taking on the most powerul interests.
Public School Graduates (PSG) creates a space or graduates o public institutions o
higher education to network, share experiences, and combat the imposter syndrome that
oen comes with being a product o public education.
Student Organizations and Journals
Qui Transtulit Sustinet (QTS) is a student organization that seeks to oster a sae space
and to create a sense o community or transer students at YLS.
The South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA) is an organization dedicated to
promoting awareness o and engagement with South Asian American and South Asian
cultural, legal, political, and social justice issues.
Tax at YLS is an organization aimed at providing community or students interested
in tax law or in pursuing a career in tax.
The Temporary Restraining Order Project (TRO Project) stas an oce at the court-
house to assist individuals seeking temporary restraining orders.
The Thomas Swan Barristers’ Union organizes an annual intramural mock trial com-
petition and sponsors a national trial advocacy team.
The Title IX Student Advocates fight gender-based violence and harassment on campus
and beyond as they work to create a sae, equitable space at the Law School, and to
address the systemic biases that oen disadvantage women, people o color, LGBTQ+
people, people with disabilities, and members o other marginalized groups.
Trans at YLS (T@YLS) aims to support the trans community at YLS by creating sae
spaces, connecting members, and advocating or their needs.
The Volleyball Club brings together people who are interested in playing volleyball
and interested in competing in the intramural graduate league.
The Women of Color Collective (WoCC) is an anity group or women o color that
provides social support, mentorship, and community.
The Yale Animal Law Society (YALS) works to reduce animal suering by ostering
a community o concerned students, advocating or anti-cruelty legislation, providing
resources on animal law, and reaching out to the wider Law School community.
The Yale Civil Rights Project (YCRP) draws attention to the legal practitioners who
cra litigation strategies to overcome discrimination through the courts.
The Yale Creative Society (YCS) provide a space and a community or aspiring writers
and creators o all kinds at Yale Law School.
The Yale Entertainment and Sports Law Association (YESLA) aims to bring together
students, aculty, alumni, and practitioners who are interested in the intersection o
sports, entertainment, arts, and the law.
The Yale Environmental Law Association (YELA) aims to build on Yale Law School’s
legacy as an important center or groundbreaking environmental thinking by drawing
attention to all aspects o environmental law and related fields. It supports YLS commu-
nity events, speakers and reading groups, and opportunities to connect and collaborate
with other campus groups, and it promotes sustainability in the use o Law School
acilities.
The Yale Federalist Society (FedSoc) is a group o conservative and libertarian law
students dedicated to ostering discussion o and debate on issues o law and public
policy.
The Yale Health Law and Policy Society (YHeLPS) creates interdisciplinary opportuni-
ties or students to learn about health law and policy by hosting speaker events, provid-
ing career support to students or summer and postgraduation jobs, and developing
experiential learning opportunities that will enable students to actively participate in the
field.
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The Yale Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) hosts Shabbat and holiday meals,
arranges discussions on topics o Jewish and legal interest, and sponsors action in the
public interest.
The Yale Law & Business Society (YLBS) is an organization dedicated to promoting
the interaction among law, policy, and business.
The Yale Law & Philosophy Society (YLPS) aims to oer both ormal and inormal
activities or students interested in philosophy and law. The organization is committed to
ostering engagement with legal and philosophical ideas by sponsoring reading groups,
hosting guest speakers, and creating a social community on campus.
The Yale Law & Technology Society (TechSoc) is a nonpartisan organization that
osters Yale’s growing community, debate, and scholarship at the intersection o law and
technology.
The Yale Law Christian Fellowship (YLCF) is a student-led, nondenominational
organization ormed to encourage spiritual growth in the Law School community.
The Yale Law Civil Discourse Society speaks across divides with speaker series rom a
student perspective. Students rom across the political spectrum at Yale Law School come
together, exchange ideas, and engage in productive disagreement. Most o all, however,
by bringing together dierent perspectives, the group osters the bonds that can unite
all Yale Students and our ragile political climate.
The Yale Law Democrats connects students with progressive campaigns, politicians,
and policy projects. Its mission is to bring exceptional speakers to campus and connect
students with government jobs and other Democrats across the country.
The Yale Law Intellectual Property Society hosts panel discussions, create proessional
networking opportunities, and institute more classroom and experiential learning
opportunities on campus. This organization responds to the growing demand o stu-
dents’ desire or more resources in this interdisciplinary field o law.
The Yale Law National Security Group (NSG) helps to oster a nonpartisan community
o students ocused on national security and international aairs by hosting experts and
practitioners in the field and conducting events designed to deepen students’ knowledge
o and exposure to national security issues.
The Yale Law Republicans promotes conservative values, explores and discusses
Republican Party philosophies, and conducts political outreach.
The Yale Law Chess Club creates a welcoming, inclusive, and educational environ-
ment or the YLS community through chess and chess education. The club is open to all
members o the Yale Law School community regardless o skill level, including people
learning the game or the first time.
The Yale Law School Defenders (DeSoc) is a group o students interested in public
deense and committed to building community support or public deense at YLS.
Yale Law Strength is a community that osters an inclusive and encouraging environ-
ment surrounding weightliing.
Yale Law Students for Climate Accountability (YLSCA) aims to hold the top law
firms accountable or their role in the climate crisis and to build a legal proession com-
mitted to ensuring a just and livable uture.
Yale Law Texas Society provides social and proessional networking opportunities
Student Participation in Administration
within the Law School community or Texans, uture Texans, and any student interested
in Texas culture or its legal market.
The Yale Law Veterans Association is a nonpartisan group seeking to promote discus-
sion on military and national security issues that aect the Yale community.
Yale Law Women (YLW+) aims to advance the status o women at Yale Law School
and in the legal proession at large. Its programming gives women access to resources,
proessional development opportunities, mentorship, and a supportive community that
will assist them in pursuing their proessional and personal goals.
The Yale Society of International Law (YSIL) aims to provide a comprehensive platorm
or YLS students to pursue their academic and proessional interests in international
aairs and international law.
The Yale Urban Law & Policy Society (YULPS) is a nonpartisan group, interested in
local and state government. The group sponsors programming to promote discussion
on urban and local issues.
YLS Art & Justice Collaborative explores the intersections o art and justice by building
a warm, curious, and bold intellectual community, applying art law to human rights and
cultural heritage management issues, finding intersections between art spaces and rights
discourse, understanding the uses o art and aesthetics in social and legal movements,
supporting artists o many kinds in producing or protecting work, engaging academics
and practitioners to fill a clear gap in art-law related institutional resources at YLS, and
annually organizing INTERSECTIONS, a spring-term conerence on art, justice, and
the law.
The YLS European Law Association (ELA) is an association o students interested in
European legal and political issues. ELA provides a platorm to discuss contemporary
issues through presentations, speaker series, inormal events, and a networking venue
or everyone interested in European law and governance. ELA is an inclusive organiza-
tion and welcomes the participation and contribution o all students o any nationality,
culture, and background.
YLS Hiking Club oers a sae, un, and accessible opportunities or members o the
YLS community to explore the natural world around New Haven. The club is open to
experienced hikers as well as those completely new to hiking with adventures that will
oer a meaningul change o scenery rom urban lie while also being as accessible as
possible. The club will provide a welcoming social and recreational space to balance out
the academic and proessional intensity o law school.
YLS RunL relieves stress and provides a space or students to socialize saely and enjoy
the physical and mental benefits o regular fitness.
YLS Social Climbers provides a collaborative and riendly environment where students
can create and solve climbing problems side-by-side regardless o experience and skill
level.
The Youth Justice Project (YJP) is a student group or YLS students interested in child
and youth issues—including education, juvenile justice, child welare, amily law, social
saety nets, and more.
Students may list student organization events in the online Calendar o Events (https://
law.yale.edu/calendar).
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The Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics (YJHPLE) is an interdisciplinary journal
whose sta members come rom all o Yale’s graduate and proessional schools. The
journal publishes pieces on topics ranging rom civil rights enorcement in health care
delivery to bioterrorism.
The Yale Journal of International Law (YJIL) contains articles and comments written
by scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and students on a wide range o topics in public
and private international law. Published twice a year, the journal is a primary orum or
the discussion and analysis o contemporary international legal problems.
The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism (YJLF) publishes works concerning a broad
range o legal issues as they pertain to gender, sexuality, or eminist theory.
The Yale Journal of Law & Liberation (YJLL) oers a space or progressive scholarship,
activism, and connection between law students and communities most marginalized by
the law.
The Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) oers its readers a cutting-edge,
dynamic environment in which to acquire and produce knowledge about the interace
between law and technology. The journal publishes scholarly articles, incisive think
pieces, lectures, and written pieces by guests o the Law & Technology Society as well as
other scholars and proessionals.
The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (YJLH) explores the intersections among
law, the humanities, and the humanistic social sciences. It is edited by students rom the
Law School and several graduate departments in the University and is advised by a board
o distinguished scholars.
The Yale Journal on Regulation (JREG) is a national orum or legal, political, and
economic analysis o current issues in regulatory policy.
The Yale Law & Policy Review (YLPR) publishes pieces on a wide range o issues at
the intersection o law and policy, including armative action, campaign finance reorm,
urban policing, education policy, and the war on terrorism.
The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) is one o the nation’s leading legal periodicals. The Journal
publishes articles, essays, and book reviews by legal aculty and other proessionals,
as well as student notes and comments. An editorial board o second- and third-year
students manages and produces eight issues o the Journal per year. The Journal’s online
YLJ orum eatures original essays on timely and novel legal developments as well as
responses to articles rom the print Journal.
The annual Yale Law Revue is a collection o satirical songs, skits, and vignettes written,
staged, and perormed by law students.
The Rebellious Lawyering Conerence (RebLaw) is an annual, student-run coner-
ence that brings together practitioners, law students, and community activists to discuss
progressive approaches to law and social change.
Student Feedback Regarding ABA Standards
Students participate in the administration o the Law School as ollows:
. There are eleven elected representatives o the student body—three rom each J.D.
class, one representing the LL.M. and M.S.L. classes, and one representing the J.S.D.
class—entitled to be present at aculty meetings and to participate ully in the delib-
eration o the aculty during these meetings, although the student representatives
do not vote.* Meetings o the aculty typically are convened to address academic
policy matters. Meetings o other governing bodies o the Law School—such as the
Governing Board and the Expanded Governing Board, which consist o tenured,
tenure-track, and clinical aculty and deans—are oen devoted to aculty hiring mat-
ters, and student representatives do not participate in those meetings.
. Student representatives are elected or a term o one academic year, commencing with
the beginning o the all term. Representatives or the second- and third-year classes
are elected during the spring o the academic year preceding their term o oce.
Representatives or the first-year and graduate classes are elected at the beginning o
the all term o the academic year or which they will serve. Elections or all classes
are held under the auspices o the student representatives in oce at the time o the
election.
. The elected student representatives, and other students selected by appropriate
procedures, participate in the work o standing committees o the aculty and, where
appropriate, in the work o ad hoc committees. The orm and nature o such partici-
pation depend upon the character o the work o each committee. All elected student
representatives serve on committees.
. Yale Law School invites students to share any concerns they might have about the
Law School’s curriculum, particularly any issues that directly implicate the School’s
compliance with the ABA’s Accreditation Standards. Students having such a concern
should submit the concern, in writing, to the associate dean or student aairs, who
will work with the appropriate administrator to address the issue. The associate dean
or student aairs, or another associate dean, as appropriate, will keep a record o all
submissions and their resolutions.
*This entitlement is subject to the limitation that on occasion the aculty may eel it necessary to con-
vene as Faculty in Executive Session. In such an event the dean will, to the extent deemed appropriate,
advise the student representatives o the holding o the executive session in advance and invite the
student representatives to present to the aculty their views on the subject under consideration; under
any circumstances student representatives will be advised o the holding o such meeting promptly
thereaer. It is, however, the purpose and expectation o the student body and o the aculty that the
academic policy business o the School will normally be conducted in meetings in which student rep-
resentatives participate.
Yale Law School is an ABA-accredited law school and is subject to the ABA Standards
or Approval o Law Schools. The ABA Standards are available at www.americanbar.org/
groups/legal_education/resources/standards.html.
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Any current Yale Law School student who wishes to bring a ormal complaint against
the Law School alleging a significant problem that directly implicates the School’s program of
legal education and its compliance with the ABA Standards should submit the complaint,
signed and in writing, to the associate dean o student aairs, the associate dean or
academic aairs, or i appropriate another o the Law School’s associate or assistant
deans.
The complaint should identiy the ABA Standard(s) in question and describe the
issue with enough specificity to enable the appropriate Law School associate dean,
assistant dean, or other senior administrator to identiy and, as appropriate, investigate
and respond to the merits o the complaint. The complaint should include the student’s
University-provided yale.edu email address, telephone number, and street/mailing
address to allow urther communication about the matter.
The associate dean or assistant dean who receives the complaint will acknowledge
receipt o the complaint within ourteen () business days, via a message sent to the
complaining student’s University-provided yale.edu email address.
Within thirty () days o acknowledgment o receipt o the complaint, the associate
dean or assistant dean who received the complaint, or i appropriate another o the Law
School’s senior administrators, will either meet with the complaining student or respond
to the merits o the complaint in writing. The complaining student will either receive a
substantive response to the complaint or inormation about what steps (i any) are being
taken by the Law School to address or urther investigate the merits o the complaint.
I the matter requires urther investigation, then within ourteen () business days o
the investigation’s conclusion, the complaining student will receive either a substantive
response to the complaint or inormation about what steps (i any) are being taken by
the Law School to address the merits o the complaint.
Within ten () business days o receipt o either a substantive response or inorma-
tion about what steps (i any) are being taken by the Law School to address the merits
o the complaint, a complaining student may appeal any decision or course o action
regarding the initial complaint to the dean o the Law School. The dean’s decision(s)
regarding any appeal will be final.
At the discretion o the dean, the procedures detailed above and associated time
constraints may be postponed during times when the Law School is in recess until the
ollowing regular session o the Law School.
The Oce o Student Aairs and the Dean’s Oce will keep the original complaint
and a summary o the response/investigation, appeal, and final disposition o the com-
plaint or a period o eight years rom the date o final resolution o the complaint.
Career Development Oce
The Career Development Oce (CDO) is the home o career advising or students.
To support the career journey, CDO provides one-on-one counseling, programs, and
resources relating to legal career paths in nonprofits and government, including public
interest ellowships, law firms, and judicial clerkships. To acilitate hiring, the oce
coordinates several interview programs.
CDO counselors, each o whom are ormer practicing attorneys, are available to
discuss relevant resources, acilitate connections with students and alumni, review
application materials, provide interview advice, guide students through the oer and
acceptance stage, and advise on job and internship success and navigating on the job
challenges. Every first-year student is assigned a CDO counselor in September. Aer
L summer job plans are finalized, students are able to connect with the counselor best
suited to their particular job interests.
The oce organizes many career events each year to educate students on legal career
paths and particular employment settings, sel-assessment, networking, and interview-
ing skills. Through CDO’s Mentor-in-Residence program, alumni with varied back-
grounds and legal experience visit YLS and provide advice to students in one-on-one
sessions.
CDO coordinates or co-sponsors numerous interview programs or public and
private sector employment. To acilitate L summer hiring, CDO coordinates a Winter
Interview Program in January and co-sponsors a public interest career air in Febru-
ary. For upper-class students, CDO coordinates a Virtual Interview Program in August
and a Public Interest Interview Program in September. The vast majority o students
secure second-summer employment through one o these programs. The oce also co-
sponsors the Equal Justice Works Career Fair and the Overseas-Trained LLM Student
Interview Program.
Through CDO’s website (https://law.yale.edu/cdo) students have access to advice and
resources on career development topics and legal employment sectors including summer
employment evaluations, judicial clerkship comment surveys, an extensive online job
posting system, and a multitude o sample application materials.
Yale Law students secure summer and postgraduate positions with law firms,
government agencies, domestic and international nonprofit organizations, in business,
academia, and as judicial law clerks. Through the Summer Public Interest Fellowship
(SPIF) program, the Law School ensures that everyone who needs unding or sum-
mer public interest or government work—in the United States or abroad—receives it.
Through its robust public interest postgraduate ellowship support, Yale Law School
enables many graduates each year to jumpstart their public interest careers and tackle
complex and important legal issues acing underserved people in our society. Through
Yale Law School’s generous Career Options Assistance Program (COAP), graduates have
the ability to obtain loan orgiveness i they choose to work in lower-paying positions,
regardless o the employment sector. See Career Options Assistance Program, in the
chapter Admissions, Expenses, and Financial Aid, or urther details. Although New
York, Washington, D.C., and Caliornia are the most popular destinations, Yale Law
School graduates commence employment in dozens o geographic locations.
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CDO is committed to ensuring that all students receive air treatment rom employers
who use our career services, including requiring employers to arm Yale Law School’s
nondiscrimination policy, which prohibits discrimination based upon age; handicap
or disability; ethnic or national origin; race; color; religion; religious creed; sex and
gender (including pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment); marital, parental,
or veteran status; sexual orientation; gender identity; and gender expression.
Lillian Goldman Law Library
The Lillian Goldman Law Library is located within the heart o the Yale Law School com-
plex, providing the Law School community with ready access to one o the world’s finest
collections o printed legal materials, an expansive array o licensed digital resources, a
growing collection o digitized and born-digital materials, and an exceptional team o
law librarians.
The Law Library’s collections, both print and digital, include a wide range o texts
and treatises emphasizing law and the social sciences and humanities, reflecting Yale’s
traditionally broad approach to the study o law. The equally long-standing international
interests o the Law School aculty and students are supported by a ,-volume
oreign and international law collection, which is complemented by licensed digital
resources selected in accordance with the geographical and subject interests o our aculty
and students. The domestic law materials or countries other than the United States
consist o primary and secondary sources or most European jurisdictions and many
other countries, collected both in English and the vernacular.
The Law Library’s collection o U.S. legal materials includes the reported state and
ederal court decisions, statutes and administrative rules, regulations, and decisions,
both in digital ormat and in comprehensive historical print ormat. The library also
maintains thousands o active serial titles, largely in digital ormats, and receives nearly
every newly published scholarly monograph in law.
The Law Library’s rare book collection is among the best o any law library in the
world and includes very strong holdings o English and U.S. legal history sources,
including an unmatched collection o Blackstone editions. The rare book collection also
has substantial holdings o European law and canon and Roman law, as well as extensive
other resources rom around the world.
The Law Library is also a publisher. The Yale Law Library Series in Legal Reerence
and History, a collaborative eort with Yale University Press, publishes award-winning
books o general interest to the legal community, while the ever-expanding collection
o oral histories o Yale Law School aculty can be ound—alongside Law School aculty
and student scholarship—on the library website’s eYLS platorm in the YLS Scholarship
Repository. Also in eYLS are e-books and document collections that are collaborative
eorts between aculty and librarians.
The Law Library is digitizing a wide range o Yale Law School historical materials in
order to commemorate the School’s Bicentennial and make the history o YLS and legal
education more accessible to researchers. Completed projects include a series o Law
Library publications documenting the early history o the Law School rom the ound-
ers to the mid-twentieth century, bulletins and catalogs rom the nineteenth century
to the present, a variety o alumni directories, several student publications, and more.
Other materials in the digitization queue include Law School bulletins and catalogs rom
the nineteenth century to the present, a variety o alumni directories, several student
publications, and more.
Members o the Law School community enjoy easy, integrated access to legal inor-
mation in all ormats. The Law Library’s online catalog, MORRIS, provides access to
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printed collections and includes all o the library’s bibliographic records, with links to
online versions o many o the same items. Yale University Library Quicksearch allows
users to search both the Law Library catalog and the University Library catalog (Orbis)
simultaneously.
The Law Library subscribes to ull-text sources o digital legal inormation including
major commercial services, such as Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.
These are supplemented by many other specialized domestic and oreign online
resources. The Law Library’s website helps researchers navigate the vast array o print
and online resources with tools such as legal research guides and video tutorials.
The Law Library’s collections are complemented by the world-class collections housed
nearby at other campus libraries, including Sterling Memorial Library and the Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which hold more than fieen million volumes and
inormation in all media, ranging rom ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic
databases.
The Law Library’s proessional sta o librarians oer innovative services, training,
and support to library users in their eorts to find inormation. In addition, proessional
librarians oer a wide array o legal research courses, workshops, and training programs
or students, aculty, and sta throughout the year. The Law Library coordinates
educational and enjoyable programs, such as book talks and movie nights, with aculty
and students, and it oers sessions with its mascot library dog during highly stressul
periods.
Interlibrary loan, document delivery, and paging, combined with scan-on-demand
and deliver-on-demand services, urther acilitate student and aculty research and
instruction. For materials not available at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, we pro
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vide ree interlibrary borrowing services or members o the Law School community,
enhanced by direct, seamless borrowing rom other Ivy libraries. The rich resources
o the other Yale campus libraries are made readily available to Yale Law School users
through Eli Express, a ree campus document delivery service. Finally, when students
need a break, they can borrow an assortment o board games, DVDs, sporting equip-
ment, and other items.
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During the academic term, students are limited to twenty hours per week o work in the
Law School—such as serving as a research assistant or a Law School aculty member—or
in other University jobs that require Law School approval, such as serving as a teaching
ellow or a Yale College course.
The Law School does not track or limit work perormed outside Yale University or
work undertaken when the Law School is not in session.
First-term J.D. students are prohibited rom working in the Law School or in other
University jobs that require Law School approval.
Yale Law School has dormitory units available at Baker Hall, which opened in August
. Baker Hall, located at Tower Parkway, houses students in urnished, one-
and two-bedroom units. The units are managed by the Yale Housing Oce.
The Yale Housing Oce has dormitory and apartment units available or graduate
and proessional students. Dormitories are single-occupancy and two-bedroom units o
varying sizes and prices. They are located across the campus, rom Edward S. Harkness
Memorial Hall, serving the medical campus, to Helen Hadley Hall and the newly built
Elm Street, serving the central/science campus. Unurnished apartments consisting
o eciencies and one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments or singles and amilies are
also available. Family housing is available in Whitehall and Esplanade Apartments. The
Housing website (https://housing.yale.edu) is the venue or graduate housing inormation
and includes dates, procedures, acility descriptions, floor plans, and rates. Applications
or the new academic year are available beginning April and can be submitted directly
rom the website with a Yale NetID.
The Yale Housing Oce also manages the O Campus Living listing service (http://
ocampusliving.yale.edu; ..), which is the exclusive Yale service or providing
o-campus rental and sales listings rom New Haven landlords. This secure system
allows members o the Yale community to search rental listings, review landlord/
property ratings, and search or a roommate in the New Haven area. On-campus housing
is limited, and members o the community should consider o-campus options. Yale
University discourages the use o Craigslist and other third-party nonsecure websites
or o-campus housing searches.
The Yale Housing Oce is located in Helen Hadley Hall (HHH) at Temple Street
and is open rom a.m. to p.m., Monday through Friday; ...
The Law School Dining Hall has a caé menu, including a coee bar, hot and cold oods,
premade selections, salads, and an expanded recycling station. Items may be purchased
with credit/debit cards or charged to a bursar account. The Law School Dining Hall also
provides catering services or the Law School community. The dining hall is closed on
Saturday and Sunday.
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Yale Law School Inormation Technology Services assists students with questions and
concerns about computer hardware and soware. Law IT also supports and maintains
a number o public computing workstations located in the Yale Law Library. Students
can also visit the IT Student Helpdesk, located on L o the Law Library, or technology
questions and issues, including assistance with printing, connecting to the network,
and personal computer support. For more inormation, visit https://law.yale.edu/its or
contact the manager o student computing at law[email protected].
The YLS Early Learning Center is an independently operated childcare center run or
the benefit o Yale Law School students, aculty, and sta. Open all day and year-round,
it accepts children rom three months through three years o age. Children o students,
aculty, and sta o Yale Law School have priority in the assignment o spaces. For
students on financial aid, the Law School makes loans available to cover the center’s
tuition. For urther inormation about the center, please contact the YLS Early Learning
Center at ...
As in most urban institutions, security rom fires, thes, and personal attacks is a concern
o the Law School. Security aairs are administered by a joint aculty-sta-student com-
mittee working in conjunction with Yale security and fire prevention personnel.
Immediate evacuation must commence whenever the siren is activated. Doors are
locked using a system that discourages key duplication, and campus police regularly
patrol the Law School area.
Yale Law School buses and University Shuttle buses provide door-to-door service to
and rom Yale Law School.
The Law School ordinarily does not cancel classes because o adverse weather conditions.
Individual classes may be canceled by instructors on occasion, in which case makeup
classes are scheduled.
Numerous lectures are given by distinguished visitors invited to the Law School by
aculty and students (see the chapter Lecture Programs and Other Academic Opportuni
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ties). From time to time aculty members present inormal talks on their current research
interests. Lectures and other public events are described in the online Calendar o Events
(https://law.yale.edu/calendar).
Photographs may be taken and video or audiotapes made by Yale Law School sta or
other members o the Law School or University community during Yale Law School and
Yale University events and activities (including during alumni events). By attending and/
or participating in classes and in other Law School and University activities, students and
visitors to the Law School agree to the University’s use and distribution o your image
and/or voice in photographs, video or audio capture, or electronic reproductions o such
classes and other Law School and University activities. These images or excerpts may be
included, or example, on the Yale Law School website, in the Yale Law Report and other
Yale University publications, on the Law School’s social media channels, and otherwise
used to support the University’s mission.
Life at Yale Law School
Yale University Resources and Services
Global engagement is core to Yale’s mission as one o the world’s great universities. Yale
aspires to:
• Be the university that best prepares students or global citizenship and leadership
• Be a worldwide research leader on matters o global import
• Be the university with the most eective global networks
Yale’s engagement beyond the United States dates rom its earliest years. The Uni-
versity remains committed to attracting the best and brightest rom around the world
by oering generous international financial aid packages, conducting programs that
introduce and acclimate international students to Yale, and ostering a vibrant campus
community.
Yale’s globalization is guided by the vice provost or global strategy, who is responsible
or ensuring that Yale’s broader global initiatives serve its academic goals and priorities,
and or enhancing Yale’s international presence as a leader in liberal arts education and
as a world-class research institution. The vice provost works closely with academic col-
leagues in all o the University’s schools and provides support and strategic guidance to
the many international programs and activities undertaken by Yale aculty, students, and
sta.
Teaching and research at Yale benefit rom the many collaborations underway with
the University’s international partners and the global networks orged by Yale across the
globe. International activities across all Yale schools include curricular initiatives that
enrich classroom experiences rom in-depth study o a particular country to broader
comparative studies; aculty research and practice on matters o international impor
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tance; the development o online courses and expansion o distance learning; and the
many ellowships, internships, and opportunities or international collaborative research
projects on campus and abroad. Together these eorts serve to enhance Yale’s global
educational impact and are encompassed in the University’s global strategy.
The Oce o International Aairs (https://world.yale.edu/oia) provides administra-
tive support or the international activities o all schools, departments, centers, and
organizations at Yale; promotes Yale and its aculty to international audiences; and
works to increase the visibility o Yale’s international activities around the globe. OIA
also coordinates Yale’s program or hosting scholars at risk.
The Oce o International Students and Scholars (https://oiss.yale.edu) hosts orien-
tation programs and social activities or the University’s international community and
is a resource or international students and scholars on immigration matters and other
aspects o acclimating to lie at Yale.
The Yale Alumni Association (https://alumni.yale.edu) provides a channel or com-
munication between the alumni and the University and supports alumni organizations
and programs around the world.
Additional inormation may be ound on the “Yale and the World” website (https://
world.yale.edu), including resources or those conducting international activities abroad
and links to international initiatives across the University.
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The Yale Peabody Museum, ounded in , houses more than ourteen million
specimens and objects in ten curatorial divisions: Anthropology, Botany, Entomology,
History o Science and Technology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology,
Mineralogy and Meteoritics, Paleobotany, Vertebrate Paleontology, and Vertebrate Zool-
ogy. The renowned collections continue to enrich teaching and learning and to inorm
groundbreaking new research. The Museum’s galleries are currently under renovation
and will reopen in to display thousands o objects, including the first Brontosaurus,
Stegosaurus, and Triceratops specimens ever discovered.
The Yale University Art Gallery was ounded in as an art museum or Yale
and the community. Today it is one o the largest museums in the country, holding
nearly , objects and welcoming visitors rom around the world. The museum’s
encyclopedic collection can engage every interest. Galleries showcase artworks rom
ancient times to the present, including vessels rom Tang-dynasty China, early Italian
paintings, textiles rom Borneo, treasures o American art, masks rom Western Arica,
modern and contemporary art, ancient sculptures, masterworks by Degas, van Gogh,
and Picasso, and more. Spanning one and a hal city blocks, the museum eatures more
than , works on display, multiple classrooms, a rooop terrace, a sculpture garden,
and dramatic views o New Haven and the Yale campus. The gallery’s mission is to
encourage an understanding o art and its role in society through direct engagement with
original works o art. Programs include exhibition tours, lectures, and perormances, all
ree and open to the public. For more inormation, please visit https://artgallery.yale.edu.
The Yale Center or British Art is a museum that houses the largest collection o
British art outside the United Kingdom, encompassing works in a range o media rom
the fieenth century to the present. It oers a vibrant program o exhibitions and events
both in person and online. Opened to the public in , the YCBA’s core collection and
landmark building—designed by architect Louis I. Kahn—were a gi to Yale University
rom the collector and philanthropist Paul Mellon, ’. For more inormation, visit
britishart.yale.edu.
There are more than eighty endowed lecture series held at Yale each year on subjects
ranging rom anatomy to theology, and including virtually all disciplines.
More than five hundred musical events take place at the University during the
academic year. In addition to degree recitals by graduate students, the School o Music
presents the Ellington Jazz Series, Faculty Artist Series, Horowitz Piano Series, New
Music New Haven, Oneppo Chamber Music Series, and Yale in New York, as well as
perormances by the Yale Opera, Yale Philharmonia, Yale Choral Artists, and various
YSM ensembles, along with concerts at the Morris Steinert Collection o Musical
Instruments. The Institute o Sacred Music presents Great Organ Music at Yale, the
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Yale Camerata, the Yale Schola Cantorum, and many other special events. The Norolk
Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School o Music presents a six-week Chamber
Music Session, along with the New Music Workshop and the Chamber Choir and Choral
Conducting Workshop. Many o these concerts stream live on the School’s website
(https://music.yale.edu). Undergraduate organizations include the Yale Bands, Yale Glee
Club, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and numerous other singing and instrumental groups.
The Department o Music sponsors the Yale Collegium, Yale Baroque Opera Project,
productions o new music and opera, and undergraduate recitals.
For theatergoers, Yale and New Haven oer a wide range o dramatic productions at
such venues as the University Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale Cabaret, Yale Resi-
dential College Theaters, O Broadway Theater, Iseman Theater, Whitney Humanities
Center, Collective Consciousness Theatre, A Broken Umbrella Theatre, Elm Shakespeare
Company, International Festival o Arts and Ideas, Long Whar Theatre, and Shubert
Perorming Arts Center.
The Graduate and Proessional Student Senate (GPSS) is composed o student-
elected representatives rom each o the ourteen graduate and proessional schools at
Yale. Any student enrolled in these schools is eligible to run or a senate seat during all
elections. As a governing body, the GPSS advocates or student concerns and advance-
ment within Yale, represents all graduate and proessional students to the outside world,
and acilitates interaction and collaboration among the schools through social gather-
ings, academic or proessional events, and community service. GPSS meetings occur
on alternating Thursdays and are open to the entire graduate and proessional school
community, as well as representatives rom the Yale administration. GPSS also oversees
the management o the Gryphon, a graduate and proessional student center, located at
York Street. The center provides oce and event space or GPSS and other student
organization activities, unds student groups, and houses Gryphon’s Pub, open nightly.
For more inormation, please visit https://gpsenate.yale.edu.
The religious and spiritual resources o the University serve all students, aculty,
and sta o all aiths. These resources are coordinated and/or supported through the
Chaplaincy (located on the lower level o Bingham Hall on Old Campus); the Uni-
versity Church in Yale in Battell Chapel, an open and arming ecumenical Christian
congregation; and Yale Religious Ministries, the on-campus association o proessionals
representing numerous aith traditions. This association includes the Saint Thomas
More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale and the Joseph Slia Center or Jewish Lie at
Yale, and it supports Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim lie proessionals; several Protestant
denominational and nondenominational ministries; and student religious groups such
as the Baha’i Association, the Yale Hindu Student Council, the Muslim Student Associa-
tion, the Sikh Student Association, and many others. Hours or the Chaplain’s Oce
during the academic term are Monday through Thursday rom : a.m. to p.m.,
Friday rom : a.m. to p.m., and Sunday evenings rom to . Additional inorma-
tion is available at http://chaplain.yale.edu.
The Payne Whitney Gymnasium is one o the most elaborate and extensive indoor
athletic acilities in the world. This complex includes the ,-seat John J. Lee Amphi-
theater, the site or varsity basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics competitions; the Rob-
ert J.H. Kiphuth Exhibition Pool; the Brady Squash Center, a world-class acility with
fieen international-style courts; the Adrian C. Israel Fitness Center, a state-o-the-art
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exercise and weight-training complex; the Brooks-Dwyer Varsity Strength and Condi-
tioning Center; the Colonel William K. Lanman, Jr. Center, a ,-square-oot space
or recreational/intramural play and varsity team practice; the Greenberg Brothers
Track, an eighth-mile indoor jogging track; the David Paterson Gol Technology Center;
and other rooms devoted to encing, gymnastics, rowing, wrestling, martial arts, general
exercise, and dance. Numerous group exercise classes in dance, martial arts, zumba,
yoga, pilates, spinning, HIIT and cardio, and sport skills are oered throughout the year.
Yale undergraduates and graduate and proessional school students may use the gym at
no charge throughout the year. Memberships at reasonable ees are available or aculty,
employees, postdocs, visiting associates, alumni, and members o the New Haven
community. Memberships are also available or spouses and children o all members.
Additional inormation is available at https://sportsandrecreation.yale.edu.
During the year, various recreational opportunities are available at the David S. Ingalls
Rink, the McNay Family Sailing Center in Branord, the Yale Outdoor Education Center
(OEC) in East Lyme, the Yale Tennis Complex, and the Yale Gol Course. All members o
the Yale community and their guests may participate at each o these venues or a modest
ee. Up-to-date inormation on programs, hours, and specific costs is available at https://
myrec.yale.edu.
Approximately fiy club sports are oered at Yale, organized by the Oce o Club
Sports and Outdoor Education. Most o the teams are or undergraduates, but a ew
are available to graduate and proessional school students. Yale students, aculty, sta,
and alumni may use the OEC, which consists o , acres surrounding a mile-long
lake in East Lyme, Connecticut. The acility includes overnight cabins and campsites, a
pavilion and dining hall available or group rental, and a waterront area with supervised
swimming, rowboats, canoes, stand-up paddleboards, and kayaks. Adjacent to the lake,
a shaded picnic grove and gazebo are available to visitors. In a more remote area o the
acility, hiking trails loop the north end o the property; trail maps and directions are
available on-site at the field oce. The OEC is open rom the third week in June through
Labor Day. For more inormation, including mid-September weekend availability, call
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Throughout the year, Yale graduate and proessional school students have the
opportunity to participate in numerous intramural sports activities, including volleyball,
soccer, and soball in the all; basketball and volleyball in the winter; soball, soccer,
ultimate, and volleyball in the spring; and soball in the summer. With ew exceptions,
all academic-year graduate-proessional student sports activities are scheduled on week-
ends, and most sports activities are open to competitive, recreational, and coeducational
teams. More inormation is available rom the Intramurals Oce in Payne Whitney
Gymnasium, .., or online at https://myrec.yale.edu.
Yale University issues identification (ID) cards to aculty, sta, and students. ID cards
support the community’s saety and security by allowing access to many parts o campus:
dining halls and caés, residential housing, libraries, athletic centers, workspaces, labs,
and academic buildings. Cultivating an environment o public saety requires the entire
community to work together to ensure appropriate use o our spaces, as well as to oster
a sense o belonging or all members o our community.
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University policies, regulations, and practice require all students, aculty, and sta to
carry their Yale ID card on campus and to show it to university ocials on request. Yale
ID cards are not transerable. Community members are responsible or their own ID card
and should report lost or stolen cards immediately to the Yale ID Center (https://idcenter.
yale.edu).
Members o the University community may be asked to show identification at vari-
ous points during their time at Yale. This may include but not be limited to situations
such as: where individuals are entering areas with access restrictions, or identification
in emergency situations, to record attendance at a particular building or event, or or
other academic or work-related reasons related to the sae and eective operation and
unctioning o Yale’s on-campus spaces.
For some members o our community, based on the needs and culture o their
program, department, and/or characteristics o their physical spaces, being asked to
show an ID card is a regular, even daily, occurrence. However, or others it may be
new or inrequent. For some, being asked to produce identification can be experienced
negatively, as a contradiction to a sense o belonging or as an aront to dignity. Yale
University is committed to enhancing diversity, supporting equity, and promoting an
environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and respectul. University ocials requesting
that a community member show their ID card should remain mindul that the request
may raise questions and should be prepared to articulate the reasons or any specific
request during the encounter. In addition, individuals requesting identification should
also be prepared to present their own identification, i requested.
The Yale Health Center is located on campus at Lock Street. The center is home to Yale
Health, a not-or-profit, physician-led health coverage option that oers a wide variety
o health care services or students and other members o the Yale community. Services
include student health, gynecology, mental health, pediatrics, pharmacy, blood draw,
radiology, a seventeen-bed inpatient care unit, and an acute care clinic with extended
hours and telephone triage/guidance rom a registered nurse twenty-our hours a day.
Additional specialty services such as allergy, dermatology, orthopedics, and a travel clinic
and more are available with added coverage. Yale Health’s services are detailed in the Yale
Health Student Handbook, available through the Yale Health Member Services Depart-
ment, .., or online at https://yalehealth.yale.edu/coverage/student-coverage.
Eligibility for Services
All ull-time Yale degree-candidate students who are paying at least hal tuition are
enrolled automatically or Yale Health Basic Student Health Services, which is oered
at no charge and includes preventive health and medical services in the departments o
Student Health, Gynecology, Student Wellness, and Mental Health & Counseling. In
addition, treatment or urgent medical problems can be obtained twenty-our hours a
day through Acute Care.
Students on leave o absence, on extended study and paying less than hal tuition, or
enrolled per course credit are not eligible or Yale Health Basic Student Health Services
but may enroll in Yale Health Student Aliate Coverage. Students enrolled in the
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Division o Special Registration as nondegree special students or visiting scholars are not
eligible or Yale Health Basic Student Health Services but may enroll in the Yale Health
Billed Associates Plan and pay a monthly ee. Associates must register or a minimum o
one term within the first thirty days o aliation with the University.
Students not eligible or Yale Health Basic Student Health Services may also use the
services on a ee-or-service basis. Students who wish to be seen ee-or-service must
register with the Member Services Department. Enrollment applications or the Yale
Health Student Aliate Coverage, Billed Associates Plan, or Fee-or-Service Program
are available rom the Member Services Department.
All students who purchase Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage (see
below) are welcome to use specialty and ancillary services at Yale Health Center. Upon
reerral, Yale Health will cover the cost o specialty and ancillary services or these stu-
dents. Students with an alternate insurance plan should seek specialty services rom a
provider who accepts their alternate insurance.
Health Coverage Enrollment
The University also requires all students eligible or Yale Health Basic Student Health
Services to have adequate hospital insurance coverage. Students may choose Yale Health
Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage or elect to waive the plan i they have other hospi-
talization coverage, such as coverage through a spouse or parent. The waiver must be
renewed annually, and it is the student’s responsibility to confirm receipt o the waiver
by the University’s deadlines noted below.
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For a detailed explanation o this plan, which includes coverage or prescriptions, see
the Yale Health Student Handbook, available online at https://yalehealth.yale.edu/coverage/
student-coverage.
Students are automatically enrolled and charged a ee each term on their Student
Financial Services bill or Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage. Students with
no break in coverage who are enrolled during both the all and spring terms are billed
each term and are covered rom August through July . For students entering Yale
or the first time, readmitted students, and students returning rom a leave o absence
who have not been covered during their leave, Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty
Coverage begins on the first day required to be on campus or program orientation. A
student who is enrolled or the all term only is covered or services through January ;
a student enrolled or the spring term only is covered or services through July .
Waiving Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage Students are permitted to
waive Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage by completing an online waiver
orm at https://yhpstudentwaiver.yale.edu that demonstrates proo o alternate coverage.
It is the student’s responsibility to report any changes in alternate insurance coverage to
the Member Services Department within thirty days. Students are encouraged to review
their present coverage and compare its benefits to those available under Yale Health. The
waiver orm must be filed annually and must be received by September or the ull year
or all term or by January or the spring term only.
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Revoking the waiver Students who waive Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Cover-
age but later wish to be covered must complete and send a orm voiding their waiver to
the Member Services Department by September or the ull year or all term, or by
January or the spring term only. Students who wish to revoke their waiver during the
term may do so, provided they show proo o loss o the alternate insurance plan and
enroll within thirty days o the loss o this coverage. Yale Health ees will not be prorated.
A student may enroll the student’s lawully married spouse or civil union partner and/or
legally dependent child(ren) under the age o twenty-six in one o three student depen-
dent plans: Student + Spouse, Student + Child/Children, or Student Family Plan. These
plans include services described in both Yale Health Basic Student Health Services and
Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage. Coverage is not automatic, and enroll-
ment is by application. Applications are available rom the Member Services Department
or can be downloaded rom the website (https://yalehealth.yale.edu/resources/forms) and
must be renewed annually. Applications must be received by September or ull-year
or all-term coverage, or by January or spring-term coverage only.
Students on leave o absence, on extended study, or enrolled per course per credit; stu-
dents paying less than hal tuition; students enrolled in the EMBA program; students
enrolled in the Broad Center M.M.S. program; students enrolled in the PA Online pro-
gram; and students enrolled in the EMPH program may enroll in Yale Health Student
Aliate Coverage, which includes services described in both Yale Health Basic Student
Health Services and Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage. Applications are
available rom the Member Services Department or can be downloaded rom the website
(https://yalehealth.yale.edu/resources/forms) and must be received by September or
ull-year or all-term coverage, or by January or spring-term coverage only.
Eligibility Changes
Withdrawal A student who withdraws rom the University during the first fieen
days o the term will be reunded the ee paid or Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty
Coverage. The student will not be eligible or any Yale Health benefits, and the student’s
Yale Health membership will be terminated retroactive to the beginning o the term. The
medical record will be reviewed, and any services rendered and/or claims paid will be
billed to the student on a ee-or-service basis. Assistance with identiying and locating
alternative sources o medical care may be available rom the Care Management Depart-
ment at Yale Health. At all other times, a student who withdraws rom the University will
be covered by Yale Health or thirty days ollowing the date o withdrawal. Fees will not
be prorated or reunded. Students who withdraw are not eligible to enroll in Yale Health
Student Aliate Coverage. Regardless o enrollment in Yale Health Hospitalization/
Specialty Coverage, students who withdraw will have access to services available under
Yale Health Basic Student Health Services (including Student Health, Athletic Medicine,
Mental Health & Counseling, and Care Management) during these thirty days to the
extent necessary or a coordinated transition o care.
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Leaves of absence Students who are granted a leave o absence are eligible to purchase
Yale Health Student Aliate Coverage or the term(s) o the leave. I the leave occurs on
or before the first day o classes, Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage will end
retroactive to the start o the coverage period or the term. I the leave occurs anytime
aer the first day o classes, Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage will end on
the day the registrar is notified o the leave. In either case, students may enroll in Yale
Health Student Aliate Coverage. Students must enroll in Aliate Coverage prior to the
beginning o the term unless the registrar is notified aer the first day o classes, in which
case, the coverage must be purchased within thirty days o the date the registrar was
notified. Fees paid or Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage will be applied
toward the cost o Aliate Coverage. Coverage is not automatic, and enrollment orms
are available at the Member Services Department or can be downloaded rom the website
(https://yalehealth.yale.edu/resources/forms). Fees will not be prorated or reunded.
Extended study or reduced tuition Students who are granted extended study status or
pay less than hal tuition are not eligible or Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Cover-
age. They may purchase Yale Health Student Aliate Coverage during the term(s) o
extended study. This plan includes services described in both Yale Health Basic Student
Health Services and Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage. Coverage is not
automatic, and enrollment orms are available at the Member Services Department or
can be downloaded rom the website (https://yalehealth.yale.edu/resources/forms). Stu-
dents must complete an enrollment application or the plan prior to September or the
ull year or all term, or by January or the spring term only.
Per course per credit Students who are enrolled per course per credit are not eligible
or Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage. They may purchase Yale Health
Student Aliate Coverage during the term(s) o per course per credit enrollment. This
plan includes services described in both Yale Health Basic Student Health Services and
Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage. Coverage is not automatic, and enroll-
ment orms are available at the Member Services Department or can be downloaded
rom the website (https://yalehealth.yale.edu/resources/forms). Students must complete
an enrollment application or the plan prior to September or the ull year or all term,
or by January or the spring term only.
For a ull description o the services and benefits provided by Yale Health, please reer
to the Yale Health Student Handbook, available rom the Member Services Department,
.., Lock Street, PO Box , New Haven CT -.
Required Immunizations
Proo o vaccination is a pre-entrance requirement determined by the Connecticut State
Department o Public Health. Students who are not compliant with this state regulation
will not be permitted to register or classes or move into the dormitories or the all term,
. Please access the Incoming Student Vaccination Record orm or graduate and
proessional students at https://yalehealth.yale.edu/new-graduate-and-professional-student-
forms. Connecticut state regulation requires that this orm be completed and signed, or
each student, by a physician, nurse practitioner, or physician’s assistant. The orm must
be completed, independent o any and all health insurance elections or coverage chosen.
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Once the orm has been completed, the inormation must be entered into the Yale Vac-
cine Portal and all supporting documents must be uploaded to http://yale.medicatconnect.
com. The final deadline is August .
COVID-19 As per recommendations rom the Centers or Disease Control and Preven-
tion, vaccination against COVID- is strongly encouraged, but not required, or incom-
ing (matriculating) students. Students are asked to submit documentation o prior any
primary series vaccinations or bivalent boosters that they have received through the Yale
Health website, http://yalehealth.yale.edu. Vaccination requirements remain in place or
healthcare workers and trainees, including students who work in settings where patient
care is provided, or those who work with human research subjects in clinical settings.
Those individuals must submit documentation o vaccination with a primary series and
one booster (or, or those who have not yet received a primary series, one bivalent dose
o vaccine) to the university or seek approval or a medical or religious exemption. Yale
will accept any combination o COVID- vaccines that have received ull approval or
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
or have been issued Emergency Use Listing (EUL) by the World Health Organization
(WHO). International students who do not have access to WHO or FDA authorized or
approved vaccines may be vaccinated at Yale Health on request.
Influenza All students are required to have flu vaccination in the all when it is made
available to them by Yale Health.
Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella All students are required to provide proo
o immunization against measles (rubeola), mumps, German measles (rubella), and
varicella. Connecticut state regulation requires two doses MMR (combined measles,
mumps, and rubella) and two doses o varicella vaccine. The first dose must have been
given aer the student’s first birthday; the second dose must have been given at least
twenty-eight () days aer the first dose. I dates o vaccination are not available, titer
results (blood test) demonstrating immunity may be substituted or proo o vaccination.
The cost or all vaccinations and/or titers rests with the student, as these vaccinations
are considered to be a pre-entrance requirement by the Connecticut State Department
o Public Health. Students who are not compliant with this state regulation will not be
permitted to register or classes or move into the dormitories or the all term, .
Quadrivalent meningitis All students living in on-campus dormitory acilities (all
undergraduate residential colleges and the ollowing graduate dormitories: Pros
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pect Street, Elm Street, Prospect Street, Baker Hall, Harkness Dormitory, and
Helen Hadley Hall) must be vaccinated against meningitis. The only vaccines that will
be accepted in satisaction o the meningitis vaccination requirement are ACWY Vax,
Menveo, Nimenrix, Menactra, Mencevax, and Menomune. The vaccine must have been
given within five years o the first day o classes at Yale. Students who are not compliant
with this state regulation will not be permitted to register or classes or move into the
dormitories or the all term, . The cost or all vaccinations and/or titers rests with
the student, as these vaccinations are a pre-entrance requirement by the Connecticut
State Department o Public Health. Please note that the State o Connecticut does not
require this vaccine or students who intend to reside on campus and are over the age
o twenty-nine.
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TB screening The University requires tuberculosis screening or all incoming students
who have lived or traveled outside o the United States within the past year.
Hepatitis B series The University recommends that incoming students receive a series
o three Hepatitis B vaccinations. Students may consult their health care provider or
urther inormation.
https://sas.yale.edu
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Student Accessibility Services (SAS) engages in an interactive process with Yale students
including undergraduate, graduate, and proessional-school students with permanent
conditions and/or temporary injuries, to determine reasonable and appropriate accom-
modations on a case-by-case basis. Students may initiate this process by requesting
accommodations through the online accommodation request orm available at: https://
yale-accommodate.symplicity.com/public_accommodation.
Engagement with SAS is [ ] private, and aculty/sta are notified o approved accom-
modations on a need-to-know basis only, except when required by law. Students may
upload supporting documentation regarding their condition and request or accommo-
dations with their accommodation request orm. Documentation guidelines are available
on the SAS website at https://sas.yale.edu/get-started/documentation-guidelines.
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Yale is a community committed to ostering an environment o diversity, mutual respect,
and intellectual discovery in which all members o the community can thrive. Acts o
discrimination and harassment are contrary to the community standards and ideals o
our university. Sta in the ollowing oces work within the Yale community to promote
respect, inclusivity, diversity, and equal opportunity, and are available to talk through
situations you have witnessed or experienced, as well as to provide guidance.
When you have concerns or questions related to discrimination or harassment, you
have a wide range o choices or support. You can reach out to a discrimination and
harassment resource coordinator, or you can talk with others, such as a residential college
dean, dean o student aairs, or the Oce o Institutional Equity and Accessibility.
I you’d like to talk with someone about sexual misconduct or sex-based discrimina-
tion, you can reach out directly to the deputy Title IX coordinator o your school or the
Title IX Oce. The Title IX website (https://titleix.yale.edu) is a helpul resource or
additional questions or concerns about sex-based discrimination or sexual misconduct.
I an individual is unsure o which resource to contact and wants to explore options or
addressing sexual misconduct, the SHARE Center is a good place to start.
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Discrimination and Harassment Resource Coordinators
Oce hours: a.m.– p.m., M–F
https://dhr.yale.edu/discrimination-and-harassment-resource-coordinators
Discrimination and harassment resource coordinators (ormerly deans’ designees) have
been identified by the dean o each college and school as community members with
the responsibility to receive concerns and oer advice and guidance related to diversity
and inclusion, discrimination and harassment, and equal opportunity. Discrimination
and harassment resource coordinators may also help acilitate inormal resolution. This
may be an individual’s best “first stop” in discussing a concern related to discrimina-
tion, harassment, or retaliation, particularly as discrimination and harassment resource
coordinators will be knowledgeable about resources specific to their school or college.
Oce of Institutional Equity and Accessibility
Oce hours: a.m.– p.m., M–F
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https://oiea.yale.edu
Any individual who would like to report a concern o discrimination, harassment, and/
or retaliation may contact the Oce o Institutional Equity and Accessibility (OIEA).
OIEA sta are available to discuss concerns, University resources, and options or resolu-
tion, including inormal resolution. Where appropriate, OIEA sta are also available to
conduct investigations into complaints o discrimination, harassment, and/or retaliation
committed by aculty or sta members. Talking with someone at OIEA about a concern
or making a complaint does not automatically launch an investigation. It can, however,
be an important step to alerting the University about a concern and getting assistance
to resolve it.
SHARE: Information, Advocacy, and Support
Lock Street, Lower Level
Appointments and drop-in hours: a.m.– p.m., M–F
/ on-call service (or time-sensitive matters): ..
https://sharecenter.yale.edu
SHARE, the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center, has
trained counselors available to members o the Yale community who wish to discuss any
current or past experience o sexual misconduct involving themselves or someone they
care about. SHARE services are confidential and can be anonymous i desired. SHARE
can provide proessional help with medical and health issues (including accompanying
individuals to the hospital or the police), as well as ongoing counseling and support
or students. SHARE works closely with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual
Misconduct, the Title IX Oce, the Yale Police Department, and other campus resources
and can provide assistance with initiating a ormal or inormal complaint.
I you wish to make use o SHARE’s services, you can call the SHARE num-
ber (..) at any time or a phone consultation or to set up an in-person
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appointment. You may also drop in on weekdays during regular business hours. Some
legal and medical options are time-sensitive, so i you have experienced an assault, we
encourage you to call SHARE and/or the Yale Police as soon as possible. Counselors
can talk with you over the phone or meet you in person at Acute Care in the Yale Health
Center or at the Yale New Haven Emergency Room. I it is not an acute situation, you
can also contact the SHARE sta via email at [email protected].
Title IX Coordinators
Oce hours: a.m.– p.m., M–F
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https://titleix.yale.edu
Title IX o the Education Amendments o protects people rom sex discrimination
in educational programs and activities at institutions that receive ederal financial assis-
tance. Sex discrimination includes sexual harassment, sexual assault, and other orms o
sexual misconduct. The University is committed to providing an environment ree rom
discrimination on the basis o sex or gender.
Yale College, the Graduate School o Arts and Sciences, and the proessional schools
have each designated one or more deputy Title IX coordinators, who work closely with
the University Title IX Oce and University Title IX Coordinator Elizabeth Conklin.
Coordinators respond to and address concerns, provide inormation on available
resources and options, track and monitor incidents to identiy patterns or systemic
issues, deliver prevention and educational programming, and address issues relating
to gender-based discrimination and sexual misconduct within their respective schools.
Coordinators also work with pregnant and parenting individuals to coordinate needed
accommodations and to respond to instances o discrimination. Discussions with a dep-
uty Title IX coordinator are private and inormation is only shared with other University
ocials on a need-to-know basis. In the case o imminent threat to an individual or the
community, the coordinator may need to consult with other administrators or take action
in the interest o saety. The coordinators also work closely with the SHARE Center, the
University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, and the Yale Police Department.
University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct
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Oce hours: a.m.– p.m., M–F
https://uwc.yale.edu
The University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) is an internal disciplin-
ary board or complaints o sexual misconduct available to students, aculty, and sta
across the University, as described in the committee’s procedures. The UWC provides
an accessible, representative, and trained body to airly and expeditiously address ormal
complaints o sexual misconduct. UWC members can answer inquiries about procedures
and the University sexual misconduct policy. The UWC is composed o aculty, senior
administrators, and graduate and proessional students drawn rom throughout the
University. UWC members are trained in to observe strict confidentiality with respect
to all inormation they receive about a case.
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Yale Police Department
Ashmun Street
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https://your.yale.edu/community/public-safety/yale-police-department
The Yale Police Department (YPD) operates / and is comprised o highly trained,
proessional ocers. The YPD can provide inormation on available victims’ assistance
services and also has the capacity to perorm ull criminal investigations. I you wish to
speak with Ocer Gabrielle Cotto, the sensitive crimes & support coordinator, she can
be reached at .. during business hours or via email at gabrielle.cotto@yale.edu.
Inormational sessions are available with the sensitive crimes & support coordinator to
discuss saety planning, available options, etc. The YPD works closely with the New
Haven State’s Attorney, the SHARE Center, the Title IX Oce, and various other depart-
ments within the University. Talking to the YPD does not commit you to submitting
evidence or pressing charges; with ew exceptions, all decisions about how to proceed
are up to you.
The Oce o International Students and Scholars (OISS) coordinates services and sup-
port or Yale’s nearly , international students, aculty, sta, and their dependents.
OISS assists international students and scholars with issues related to employment,
immigration, personal and cultural adjustment, and serves as a source o general
inormation about living at Yale and in New Haven. As Yale University’s representative
or immigration concerns, OISS helps students and scholars obtain and maintain legal
nonimmigrant status in the United States.
OISS programs, like daily English conversation groups, the Understanding America
series, DEIB workshops, bus trips, and social events, provide an opportunity to meet
members o Yale’s international community and become acquainted with the many
resources o Yale University and New Haven. Spouses and partners o Yale students and
scholars will want to get involved with the International Spouses and Partners at Yale
(ISPY) community, which organizes a variety o programs and events.
The OISS website (http://oiss.yale.edu) provides useul inormation to students and
scholars prior to and upon arrival in New Haven, as well as throughout their stay at Yale.
International students, scholars, and their amilies and partners can connect with OISS
and the Yale international community virtually through Yale Connect, Facebook, and
Instagram.
OISS is a welcoming venue or students and scholars who want to check their email,
grab a cup o coee, and meet up with a riend or colleague. The International Center is
OISS’s home on Yale campus and is located at Temple Street, across the street rom
Helen Hadley Hall. The International Center provides meeting space or student groups
and a venue or events organized by both student groups and University departments.
For more inormation about our hours, directions, and how to reserve space at OISS,
please visit https://oiss.yale.edu/about/hours-directions-parking.
Law School Students
Doctor of the Science of Law, September 23, 2022
Fernando Bracaccini
Sebastian Andres Guidi
Roman Zinigrad
Doctor of the Science of Law, December 10, 2022
Jingjian Wu
Juris Doctor, February 11, 2023
Aniket Krishna Kesari
Irene Kwon
Gavin Leander Landgra
Catherine Francis Le
Leah Martin Samuel
Doctor of the Science of Law, April 22, 2023
Manuel Andrés Casas Martínez
Ellen Margareta Nohle
Juris Doctor, May 31, 2023
Matei Alexianu
James Wagner Altschul
Gregory Elias Antill
Joshua Timothy Asabor
Frederick Van Augur
Prashanta Gauss Augustine
Daniel Eric Backman
Ryanne Bamieh
Nicholas Raymond Barile
Isabelle Claire Barnard
Jonathan Dietrich Baughman
Brandon Michael Baum-Zepeda
Julian James Bava
Abigail Clement Bazin
Jamie John Beaton
Lauren Elizabeth Beccue
Kyle G. Begis
Sarita Emma Benesch
Nketiah Berko
Kyra Jean Blas
Russell Cliord Bogue
John David Bowers
Nicolette Le Brannan
Andrew J. Breckel
Kyle David Bright
Matthew Theodore Brokaw
Psalm Jeremiah Brown
Callan Bruzzone
Colin Robert Burke
James Bergin Byrn
Adam Callister
Olivia Coughlan Campbell
Yael Hannah Caplan
Robert Daniel Capodilupo
Alyssa Lauren Chan
Alan Sui Chen
Kevin Chen
Mujin Choi
Sophina Clark
Elizabeth Greye Clarke
Trent Minh Colbert
Justin David Cole
Seth Donald Robert Cole
Cliord Scott Courvoisier
Nathan Avery Cummings
Braden Glenn Currey
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Eshan Anand Dabak
Rubin Elias Danberg Biggs
Poonam Daryani
Ram Anthonie Naungayan Dolom
Ellie Marie Driscoll
Amelia Hannah Dunnell
Marina L. Edwards
Eric James Eisner
Clare Elise Elizondo
Simon Philipp Engler
Elizabeth Anne Eshleman
Ethan Quentin Fairbanks
Logan A. Fairbourn
Raymond Fang
Mark Dominic Firmani
Andrew Paul Follett
Isabella Juliet Forero
Alison Claire Fraerman
Michelle Ebony Fraling
Chloe Ashleigh Francis
Jaster Wesley Francis, Jr.
Kailyn Michelle Gaines
Adam Maxwell Gerard
Isabella Francesca Gianani
Brenton MacAllister Godrey
Scott Lewis Graber
Brett Mitchell Greene
Samarth Gupta
Mikayla Lavan Harris
Jelani Hayes
Adam Charles Henderson
Erica Marsha Henry
David Julian Herman
Calleigh Anne Higgins
Daniel James Hirsch
Colbie Marie Holderness
David Andrew Hopen
Susannah Virginia Howe
Jessica C. Huang
Milo Francis Hudson
Claire Louise Hungar
Jeremy Christian Hunt
Michael Henry Bradord Ishitani
Gabrielle Shanice Jackson
Elizabeth Rachel Jacob
Sonya Goldina Jacobs
Sarah Jeon
Charles Wallace Jetty
Marvin Broderick Johnson
Arata Enrique Kaku-McGowan
Leah Kazar
Aaron M. Kelley
Rekha Pricilla Kennedy
Aisha Lydia Keown-Lang
Natalie Kirchho
Zachary Jacob Krislov
Elijah Walker Kukharuk
Aaron Bryce Moon Young Lee
Joshua Mohandas Leow
Abby Elizabeth Lemert
Leah Rebecca Levinger
Nina Jennie Leviten
Faith Elizabeth Allayne Lewis
Zhangyuan Li
Lauren Lin
Anna Perry Lipin
Michael John Loedel
Cynthia Yaoyun Long
Alice Scott Longenbach
Elsa Julien Lora
Juan Fernando Luna León
Layla Zeitoune Malamut
Bo H. Malin-Mayor
Benjamin Pietro Marcus
Caroline Isabelle Markowitz
Thomas Hunter Mason
Jake Matthew Mazeitis
Kelly Elizabeth McClure
Walter Patrick McCormick
Daniel Antonio Mejia-Cruz
Paul Timothy James Meosky
Joel Philip Michaels
Evan Mastry Miller
Andrew Frederick Miner
Juan Pablo Miramontes Mota
Kaleb Watterson Mount
Derek Luzinda Mubiru
Sarah Alex Nathan
Sarah Katherine Nealon
Porter Michael Nenon
Mira Natania Brooks Netsky
Natalie Nogueira
Law School Students
Lillian Glaessner Novak
John Aggrey Odera
Catalina De Lourdes Odio
Gilbert Orbea
Grezia Margaret Ordóñez
Belisa Ana Pang
Kalind David Sommer Parish
Caroline Louise Parker
Varshini Parthasarathy
Nicholas S. Pellitta
Daphne Peng
Emma Caridad Perez
Amir Perk
Miriam Pierson
Beatrice Ruth Pollard
Nicholas J. Pugliese
Jessica Sara Quinter
Walter McLean Ramsden
Cy Emeka Ray
Camila Rosa Reed-Guevara
Stephanie Marie Rice
Ezra Samuel Ritchin
Thomas Arthur Ritz
Fernando Rojas
Kathryn Anne Roop
Elizabeth M. Rosenblatt
Jedadiah John Rothstein
Talia Karchmer Rothstein
Zoe Sarah Rubin
Eleanor Boardman Runde
Upasna Saha
James Francis Sanchez
Ann Simone Nissenbaum Sarnak
Alicia Gabrielle Schleiman
Zachary Stemp Schlesinger
Erin Candace Seiert
Steen Alexander Seitz
Partha Sharma
Akshat Shekhar
Zachary R. Shelley
Valerie Silva Parra
Malina Julia Simard-Halm
Andrew Thomas Smith
Natalie Irene Smith
Aaron Xiao Sobel
Saylor S. Soinski
Isabella Meg Hairston Soparkar
Saja Sarah Spearman-Weaver
Eric Michael Stephen
Aubrey Noelle Stoddard
Samantha Grace Stroman
Sierra T. Stubbs
Karen Sung
Rachel Caroline Talamo
Molly Savannah Teague
Eriele M. Tellis
Johnathan Bernard Terry
Chelsea Rose Campbell Thomeer
Liam Joseph Timmons
Jacob William Tomory
Aaron Drachman Troncoso
Christopher Allan Umanzor
Nathaniel David Urban
Alejandra Catharina Uría
Angela Adriana Uribe
Sruthi Priyal Venkatachalam
Hannah Sophie Vester
Sarah Elizabeth Walker
Richard Prince Wang
Shunhe Wang
William Randolph Weber
Alisa E. White
Marina Sophia Valentini Wilbraham
Kataeya Shamyne Wooten
Katherine S. Xiu
Allen Yilin Xu
Jeremy James Zeitschel
Alexander Zhang
Angela Lu Zhang
Heather Lynne Zimmerman
Master of Laws, May 31, 2023
Samuel Hernan Bendezu Medina
Anuj Chand
Tomas Eduardo Churba
Nir Gonen
Fatmanur Banu Hayir
Dan Raael Israel Preminger
Anmol Jain
Guilherme Jales Sokal
Kirthana Singh Khurana
Gahong Lee
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Qi Lei
Jose Maria L. Marella
Ya’ara Mordecai
Elisabeth Paar
Susanne Karoline Paas
David Benjamin Presslein
Philipp Schlueter
Luciano Simonetti Izquierdo
Pauline Isabelle Sylvie Trouillard
Luna Van Brussel Barroso
Arnaud Van Caenegem
Flyn Worth Wells
Juris Doctor, June 10, 2023
Joshua Michael Herman
Master of Studies in Law, June 10, 2023
Andrew Deutsch Horowitz
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Juris Doctor Candidates
Class o
Class o
Class o
Joint Degree
Total Juris Doctor 640
Doctor o the Science o Law
Master o Laws
Master o Studies in Law
Visiting Researchers
Visiting Student
Total enrollment 681
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Albert-Ludwigs Universitat [Germany]
Allegheny College
American University
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Barnard College [Columbia University]
Bates College
Birmingham-Southern College
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Bowling Green State University
Brandeis University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
Bucknell University
Caliornia Institute o Technology
Caliornia State University at Long Beach
Carleton College [Minnesota]
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Catholic University o Leuven [Belgium]
Chapman University
City University o New York
City University o New York [Hunter
College]
Claremont McKenna College
College o William and Mary
Columbia University
Cornell University
Law School Students
Dartmouth College
Dickinson College
Duke University
Earlham College
Emory University
Fordham University
Fundaçăo Getúlio Vargas [Brazil]
Furman University
Galatasaray University [Turkey]
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute o Technology
Grinnell College
Gustavus Adolphus College
Harvard University
Haverord College
Howard University
Indiana University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Korea University [South Korea]
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Loyola University Chicago
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität
München [Germany]
Macalester College
Marquette University
McGill University [Canada]
Middlebury College
Morehouse College
Mount Holyoke College
National Law School o India University
[India]
National Law University, Jodhpur [India]
New York University
New York University [Abu Dhabi]
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Norwich University
Oberlin College
Ohio State University
Oregon State University
Peking University [People’s Republic o
China]
Pomona College
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
[Peru]
Princeton University
Purbanchal University [Nepal]
Purdue University
Quinnipiac University
Reed College
Rice University
Rutgers, State University o New Jersey
Scripps College
Seoul National University [South Korea]
Smith College
Southeast Missouri State University
Spelman College
St. John’s University
Stanord University
State University o New York at Cortland
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
Tel-Aviv University [Israel]
Texas A&M University
The Hebrew University o Jerusalem
[Israel]
The University o Adelaide [Australia]
Tsinghua University [People’s Republic o
China]
Tus University
Tulane University
United States Air Force Academy
United States Coast Guard Academy
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
Universidad de Buenos Aires [Argentina]
Universidad de Chile [Chile]
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
[Brazil]
Universidade Federal do Maranhão
[Brazil]
Universität Graz [Austria]
Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne
[France]
University o Alabama
University o Caliornia at Berkeley
University o Caliornia at Los Angeles
University o Caliornia at Santa Barbara
Yale Law School 2023–2024
University o Caliornia at Santa Cruz
University o Cambridge [United
Kingdom]
University o Chicago
University o Colombo [Sri Lanka]
University o Connecticut
University o Delhi [India]
University o Edinburgh [United
Kingdom]
University o Florida
University o Georgia
University o Illinois
University o Kansas
University o Kentucky
University o Maryland
University o Massachusetts at Amherst
University o Miami
University o Michigan at Ann Arbor
University o Minnesota
University o Mississippi
University o Missouri
University o New Hampshire
University o North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
University o Notre Dame
University o Oklahoma
University o Oxord [United Kingdom]
University o Pennsylvania
University o Richmond
University o Rochester
University o South Carolina
University o Southern Caliornia
University o Texas at Austin
University o Texas at Dallas
University o the Philippines [Philippines]
University o Tokyo [Japan]
University o Toronto [Canada]
University o Utah
University o Vermont
University o Virginia
University o Wyoming
University o York [United Kingdom]
Vanderbilt University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
Wake Forest University
Washington and Lee University
Washington University [Missouri]
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Westaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet
Muenster [Germany]
Williams College
Yale University
Yeshivah Gedolah Rabbinical College
Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah - Grodno
Youngstown State University
Total institutions, 164
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United States
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Caliornia
Colorado
Connecticut
District o Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Law School Students
Missouri
Montana
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
U.S. Virgin Islands
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Foreign Countries
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
El Salvador
France
Germany
Guam
Guatemala
India
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Kenya
Lebanon
Nepal
New Zealand
Peru
Philippines
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Turkey
United Kingdom
Alumni
Yale Law School alumni serve as distinguished practitioners, public servants, academics,
judges, and business entrepreneurs all over the world. Renowned in their proessional
lives, these more than , alumni play a vital role in the global Yale Law School
community. They renew social ties, network with one another, and oer their knowledge
o legal scholarship and practice at Law School gatherings in a variety o places in the
United States throughout the year. Graduates also serve as practitioners-in-residence
and mentors in the School’s centers and programs, and attend and participate in the
many lectures and conerences occurring at their alma mater.
The Yale Law School Association, ounded to strengthen the ties both among gradu-
ates and between graduates and the Law School, consists o all alumni. In cities across the
United States and abroad, Yale Law School local associations provide social, intellectual,
and proessional opportunities or graduates and the larger Law School community.
Whether it is a group o alumni and students in Chicago hearing about the ascinating
clinical work o a aculty member, an alumni panel discussion in Washington, D.C.,
on the Supreme Court’s preceding term, or a diversity reception in San Francisco, Yale
Law School alumni maintain important connections with their alma mater. For a listing
o upcoming alumni events and urther inormation about Law School alumni, visit
Overseeing and supporting the YLS Association is its approximately -member
Executive Committee, which meets twice a year in New Haven. During these meetings,
committee members engage in a variety o activities, including ad hoc working groups on
the dean’s initiatives, presentations rom Law School aculty members, and networking
opportunities with students. Recent gatherings included a dinner matching alumni with
shared career interests, a business luncheon ollowed by breakout sessions on several
o the dean’s initiatives, and a estive dinner with the dean. The Executive Committee
strengthens the Yale Law School community worldwide by connecting alumni with
each other, current and incoming students, and the School. For more inormation, visit
https://law.yale.edu/info/alumni/executive-committee.
All graduates o the Law School are invited to annual Alumni Weekends, which tra-
ditionally take place at the Law School in the all. Alumni and their guests participate in
three days o events, including discussions, tours, panels, receptions, and meals. Gradu-
ates celebrating their quinquennial reunions (fih, tenth, fieenth, etc.) reconnect with
classmates at special Saturday reunion dinners in venues throughout New Haven and at
Sunday brunches at the homes o aculty or ellow alumni. Current student organizations
and anity groups have the opportunity to connect with returning alumni, and many
students attend events, serve as aides, and are matched through networking events with
returning alumni on the basis o their legal areas o interest.
The Courtyard online engagement platorm, named or a avorite gathering place,
aims to replicate virtually the personal connections made in the heart o the Law School.
Since the launch o this resource in , more than , members have “raised their
hands” to provide support and guidance to students and alumni. Through the Court-
yard, alumni can engage with students, find classmates and riends geographically, and
contribute to discussions in regional and class year groups. To join, or or more inorma-
tion, please go to https://thecourtyard.law.yale.edu or email [email protected].
Endowment Funds
The Law School has the ollowing endowed proessorship, library, lecture, scholarship,
ellowship, and prize unds. The date o the gi and the name o the donor are given in
each instance.
Nathan Baker Professorship of Law () A gi in honor o Nathan Baker, who
dedicated fiy years o his lie to the practice o trial advocacy, rom Robert C. Baker and
Gerald H. Baker, his sons, to establish a proessorship or the teaching o trial advocacy,
procedure, and evidence.
Simeon E. Baldwin Professorship ( and ) A gi and bequest o Proessor
Simeon E. Baldwin, B.A. , or “a Proessorship o Roman Law, Comparative Juris-
prudence, or other branch o advanced legal education, as the aculty o the Law School
may recommend.”
Alexander M. Bickel Professorship of Public Law () Gis rom various individu-
als, news organizations, and others in memory o Sterling Proessor Alexander M. Bickel,
a member o the aculty rom until his death in .
Jacquin D. Bierman Professorship of Taxation () A gi rom Jacquin D. Bierman,
J.D. , a proessor and scholarly entrepreneur in the field o taxation.
Binger Clinical Faculty Chair in Human Rights at Yale Law School () Established
by the Robina Foundation to support a clinical aculty member at Yale Law School who
will teach human rights–related courses and clinics and lead the Robina Human Rights
Initiative.
David Boies Professorship of Law () Established in honor o David Boies, a mem-
ber o the Yale Law School Class o , distinguished trial and appellate lawyer, by
his riends and partners. To be held by a member o the aculty o outstanding scholarly
achievement whose writing, teaching, and public service exempliy the qualities o
intelligence, imagination, and judgment that have been the hallmark o David Boies’s
exceptional career in the law.
Guido Calabresi Professorship () Established through a bequest o Ralph Gregory
Elliot, B.A. , LL.B. , to honor Guido Calabresi, B.S. , LL.B. , M.A.Hon.
, ormer Dean o Yale Law School and respected jurist.
The George W. and Sadella D. Crawford Professorial Lectureship () A und
supporting either a proessorship, a ellowship, or a lectureship. Established through
a generous bequest rom Dr. Charlotte Craword Watkins, Ph.D. , o Washington,
D.C., proessor o English at Howard University, in memory o her ather, George W.
Craword (LL.B. ), –, a child o ormer slaves who became a ounding
signatory o the NAACP and a trustee o Talladega College. He was in addition one
o Connecticut’s leading attorneys, serving as corporation counsel or the City o New
Haven and judge on the New Haven Probate Court.
Yale Law School 2023–2024
William Nelson Cromwell Fund () Bequest o William Nelson Cromwell, Esq., o
the New York bar, income to be used or the general purposes o the Law School. The
und currently supports a proessorship.
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professorship of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry () Estab-
lished by a gi rom the Elizabeth K. Dollard Charitable Trust, in memory o Elizabeth
K. Dollard, J.D. , or teaching and research that explores the intersection o law,
medicine, and psychiatry.
William O. Douglas Clinical Professorship of Law () A gi rom Mrs. Gordon B.
Tweedy and Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy’s daughters, Clare Tweedy McMorris, Ann Tweedy,
and Margot Tweedy, in memory o Gordon Bradord Tweedy, B.A. , LL.B. ,
on the occasion o the anniversaries o his graduation rom Yale College and Yale Law
School, and in honor o the Honorable William O. Douglas, M.A. , Sterling Proes-
sor o Law at Yale Law School and Associate Justice o the U.S. Supreme Court, –.
Doyle/Winter–YLS Democracy and Dialogue () Established by a gi rom
Michael A. Doyle, LL.B. , and Bunny Winter, to support the teaching and research
activities associated with the Michael A. Doyle and Bunny Winter Distinguished Visiting
Proessor o Law, in accordance with University policies.
The John M. Du, Jr. Professorship () Established in recognition o gis by John
M. Du Jr., LL.B. , ounder o the private equity firm Du Ackerman & Goodrich,
based in San Francisco.
Allen Duy/Class of 1960 Professorship () Created through the generosity o
David A. (J.D. ) and Betty Jones and members o the graduating class, on the
occasion o their thirtieth reunion, to honor the memory o deceased classmate Allen
Duy, J.D. , a highly respected New Haven practitioner.
Joseph M. Field 1955 Professorship of Law () Established by a gi rom Joseph
M. Field, LL.B. .
Macklin Fleming Professorship of Law () Established by a bequest rom Macklin
Fleming, B.A. , LL.B. , ormer Justice o the Caliornia Courts o Appeal.
Martin R. Flug ’55 Faculty Support Fund () Established by a gi rom Martin R.
Flug, LL.B. , to support the teaching and research activities o current and visiting
academic aculty.
Ford Foundation Professorship in Comparative and Foreign Law () Established
by the Ford Foundation to strengthen programs in international legal studies.
Ford Foundation Professorship in Law and Social Sciences () Established by the
Ford Foundation to improve the training o lawyers and law teachers.
Lafayette S. Foster Professorship () Bequest o the Honorable Laayette S. Foster,
to ound a proessorship o English common law. “I direct that said Proessor, as oen as
once in our years, shall deliver a public lecture at some convenient time and place…upon
any branch o the common, civil, municipal or ecclesiastical law—the law o nature—the
law o nations—political economy—or general politics, the proessor to select his own
subject.”
John A. Garver Professorship () A gi and bequest o John A. Garver, B.A. , to
establish a chair o jurisprudence.
Sol Goldman Clinical Professorship () Established by a gi rom the Sol
Goldman Charitable Trust, to support teaching and research activities associated with
the proessorship.
Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professorship () Established by a gi rom David
Boies, LL.B. , and Mary M. Boies, in honor o Maurice R. Greenberg.
Walton Hale Hamilton Professorship () Gis in memory o Proessor Walton Hale
Hamilton, M.A. Hon. , a member o the aculty rom to .
The Sam Harris Professorship of Law () A gi in memory o Sam Harris, LL.B.
, by the law firm o Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and by his ormer
clients and riends, to establish a chair in corporate and securities law.
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professorship of Jurisprudence () A gi in memory o
Proessor Wesley Newcomb Hoheld, M.A. Hon. , a member o the aculty between
and , rom the May Treat Morrison Foundation, by Proessor Hoheld’s brother,
Edward Hoheld, as trustee, to start a proessorship o jurisprudence.
Howard M. Holtzmann Professorship of International Law () Established by gis
rom Howard M. Holtzmann, B.A. , J.D. , a distinguished lawyer and jurist in
the field o international arbitration and dispute resolution, and rom his riends, on the
occasion o Judge Holtzmann’s fiy-fih reunion in Yale College, and fiieth in Yale
Law School. The chair is to be held by a member o the Yale Law School aculty who has
achieved a worldwide reputation or teaching and scholarship in the field o international
law, and who is devoted to the promotion o international order.
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professorship () A gi in honor o the Honorable
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, LL.B. , proessor o law, attorney general o the United
States, undersecretary o state o the United States, and senior vice-president, law
and external relations, o the International Business Machines Corporation, rom the
International Business Machines Corporation and numerous individuals, to establish a
chair o public law or other branch o advanced legal education—not necessarily limited
to domestic law or to the law o any one nation.
Knight Chair in Constitutional Law and the First Amendment () Established by
a grant rom the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to ocus on the constitutional
study o ree speech and communication, with special emphasis on issues posed by new
communications technologies.
Arthur Liman Professorship () Established by the riends o Arthur L. Liman,
LL.B. , in recognition o his exemplary achievements as a counselor, advocate, and
devoted deender o the public interest, to be held by a member o the aculty whose own
teaching and scholarship display the same high ideals as Arthur Liman’s distinguished
career.
Augustus E. Lines Professorship of Testamentary Law () A bequest o Augustus
E. Lines, o New Haven, Connecticut.
Endowment Funds
Yale Law School 2023–2024
Henry R. Luce Professorship of Jurisprudence () Gi rom Henry R. Luce, B.A.
, M.A. Hon. , the incumbent to teach law in Yale College as well as the Yale
Law School.
Myres S. McDougal Professorship () Gi o Paul C. Tsai, LL.M. , J.S.D. ,
together with riends and ormer students, in memory o Myres S. McDougal, J.S.D.
, Associate Proessor o Law, –; Proessor, –; William K. Townsend
Proessor o Law, –; Sterling Proessor o Law, –; and Sterling Proessor
Emeritus o Law, –; to support a proessorship.
Walter E. Meyer Professorship of Property and Urban Law () Gi in memory o
Walter E. Meyer, B.A. , rom the Walter E. Meyer Research Institute o Law, Inc.
Edward J. Phelps Professorship () A gi o Junius S. Morgan, and his son
J. Pierpont Morgan, LL.D. , in honor o Proessor Edward J. Phelps, –, a
member o the aculty between and , to support a proessorship o contracts
and commercial law.
Alfred M. Rankin Professorship of Law () Gis in honor o Alred M. Rankin,
B.S. , LL.B. , a distinguished practicing lawyer or more than fiy years and
a leader in civic aairs in Cleveland, Ohio, rom his wie, Clara Taplin Rankin, and his
son, Alred M. Rankin Jr., B.A. , LL.B. , to establish a chair in Yale Law School
whose holder shall have demonstrated consistent quality and devotion to teaching both
in the classroom and as a mentor to students.
Florence Rogatz Visiting Professorships () A und established through a generous
bequest rom Pat Herman Winokur in memory o her parents, Florence Rogatz Herman,
LL.B. , and Alexander C. Herman, to support visiting proessorships.
Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professorship of Law () Established by a bequest o Oscar
M. Ruebhausen, LL.B. .
Sidley Austin–Robert D. McLean ’70 Visiting Professorship () Established by
gis rom the law firm o Sidley Austin LLP, amily, and riends to honor Robert D.
McLean, LL.B. , and his distinguished career in the law.
Robert R. Slaughter Professorship of Law () A grant rom the Horace W.
Goldsmith Foundation in memory o Robert R. Slaughter, B.A. , LL.B. , o
New York City, to establish a chair in any field o English or American common or
commercial law.
Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professorship () A chair in international
law, diplomacy, and cross-cultural studies. Established in honor o Ambassador Gerard
C. Smith, LL.B. , and in memory o his wie, Bernice Latrobe Smith, through gis
rom amily, riends, and the Ingalls Foundation.
John Thomas Smith Professorship () Gi in memory o John Thomas Smith,
LL.B. (–), rom members o his amily, riends, and associates, to ound
a proessorship dealing with the legal problems arising rom the impact on law o eco-
nomic and technological changes.
Endowment Funds
Charles F. Southmayd Professorship () A gi in memory o Charles F. Southmayd,
LL.D. , rom his sister, Emily F. Southmayd.
Potter Stewart Professorship of Constitutional Law () Established through the
generosity o amily, riends, and ormer law clerks to honor the memory o the Honor-
able Potter Stewart, LL.B. , Associate Justice o the U.S. Supreme Court, –.
The memorial und supports a Yale Law School chair, the holder o which also oers
courses in Yale College.
Leighton Homer Surbeck Professorship () Established to honor Homer Surbeck,
Yale Law School Class o and ounding member o the law firm o Hughes, Hub-
bard & Reed, by Margaret Surbeck, his wie. The appointment should be held by a
person experienced in the practice o law prior to assuming the proessorship.
William K. Townsend Professorship () Gis in memory o Proessor William K.
Townsend, LL.B. , a member o the aculty between and , rom his son,
George H. Townsend, B.A. .
Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professorship of Law and Organization () A gi in
honor o Gordon Bradord Tweedy, B.A. , LL.B. , rom members o his amily,
to establish a joint proessorship between the Law School and the School o Manage-
ment. The incumbent will oer interdisciplinary courses in both schools to encourage
the growth o ideas and viewpoints between the legal and business communities.
Anne Urowsky Fund () Established by a gi rom Richard J. Urowsky, B.A. ,
J.D. , in honor o his mother, Anne Urowsky, to support the Anne Urowsky Proes-
sor in Law at Yale Law School.
Robert W. Winner Professorship () An endowed chair in Law and Humanities or
Law and Public Policy, created by the gi rom a member o the Yale Law School Class o
who was a close riend and business partner o Robert W. Winner, a Washington,
D.C., real estate investor and humanitarian.
J. Skelly Wright Professorship () Established by a bequest o Mrs. Helen Wright
and gis rom ormer law clerks and riends, to honor the lie and career o James Skelly
Wright, LL.D. Hon. , an eminent and courageous judge on the U.S. District Court
or the Eastern District o Louisiana (–) and the U.S. Court o Appeals or the
District o Columbia Circuit (–).
Simeon E. Baldwin Fund () Bequest o Simeon E. Baldwin, B.A. .
Burton H. Brody Fund () Gi rom Burton H. Brody, B.S. W, J.D. .
Shirley Oakes Butler Fund () Bequest o Shirley Oakes Butler, LL.B. .
Ann F. Cudahy Fund for Law and Business Policy () Gi rom the Patrick and Anna
M. Cudahy Fund, in memory o the wie o Richard D. Cudahy, LL.B. , president o
the und. To support teaching, research, and special programs in law and business policy.
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Sherman Day Fund () Bequest o Sherman Day, B.A. .
Harold Depew Fund () Gi rom Harold Depew, LL.B. .
Albert B. Dick Fund (, , ) Gi rom Albert B. Dick, o Chicago. Income
available or the general purposes o the Law School.
Timothy Dwight Fund () Gi rom President Timothy Dwight.
Eugene Phelps Edwards Fund () Bequest o Eugene Phelps Edwards.
Gregg L. Engles ’82 Fund () Established by a gi rom Gregg L. Engles, J.D. ,
or the general support o the Law School.
Martin F. Ernst Fund () Bequest o Martin F. Ernst.
Faculty Memorial Fund () Established by gis rom aculty, riends, and relatives
in memory o deceased Yale Law School aculty members.
Allen B. Forbes Fund () Gi rom Allen B. Forbes, LL.B. .
Gerald R. Ford Program in Law and Public Policy () In honor o President Gerald
R. Ford, LL.B. , a program o teaching and research in law and public policy.
Fund for Animal Law () Established to support teaching, scholarship, research,
experiential learning opportunities, conerences, or other activities that advance the field
o animal law.
Sol and Lillian Goldman Deanship at Yale Law School () Established by a gi
rom the Sol Goldman Charitable Trust and the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust to
support the deanship. The sitting dean shall be known as the Sol & Lillian Goldman
Proessor o Law.
Goldman Fund for International Initiatives at Yale Law School () Established by
a gi rom Lloyd M. and Victoria A. Goldman to support international programming
at Yale Law School.
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund for International Initiatives () Estab-
lished by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation to support globalization initiatives at
the Law School.
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund II () Established by the Horace W.
Goldsmith Foundation to be used or general support.
Marc Heilweil Dean’s Innovation Fund () Established by a gi rom Marc Heilweil
’ to support innovative ideas and advancements within the School, including research
on corporate law structure, visiting scholars, support or ellows, and a conerence.
Charles E. Hodgdon Fund () Bequest o Ernest F. Hodgdon, LL.B. , son o
Charles E. Hodgdon.
Harvey L. Karp Fund () Established by a gi rom the Harvey L. Karp Foundation
to support the Law School’s existing Visiting Lecturers program.
Endowment Funds
Eugene and Gloria Landy Fund for the Study of Corporate Law () Established by
a gi rom Eugene W. Landy, LL.B. , to urther the mission o the Yale Law School
Center or the Study o Corporate Law.
Carol L. and Eugene A. Ludwig Flex-Faculty Fund () Established by Dr. Carol
L. Ludwig and Eugene A. Ludwig ’ J.D. to provide sustainable financial resources
or the recruitment, development, and retention o tenure-track aculty o the highest
caliber who will sustain Yale Law School’s preeminence in legal teaching, research, and
scholarship.
William W. Meyer Fund () Bequest o William W. Meyer, M.A. , LL.B. .
James T. Moran Fund () Bequest o James T. Moran, LL.B. .
Charles M. Nathan 1965 Fund for the Study of Corporate and Commercial Law at Yale
Law School () Established by Charles M. Nathan, LL.B. , to support the study
o corporate and commercial law at Yale Law School.
Deborah L. Rhode Fund for Public Interest and Pro Bono Service () Established
by a gi rom Deborah L. Rhode, B.A. , J.D. , or students interested in pro bono
or public interest opportunities.
Robina Human Rights Initiative Endowment Fund () Established by the Robina
Foundation to () provide financial assistance to YLS students and graduates pursu-
ing careers in human rights, including through academic-year scholarships, summer
public interest ellowships, postgraduate ellowships, and law school loan repayment
assistance; () support visiting human rights aculty, scholars, and practitioners; and
() und human rights–related research, clinical education, teaching, and programming
at YLS, particularly to enable innovation in human rights clinical education and student
opportunities to gain direct human rights investigation and advocacy experience, and
outreach to the broader Yale community, including support or human rights education
and experience or Yale undergraduates.
Jonathan P. Rosen ’70 Fund for Faculty Support () Established by a gi rom
Jonathan P. Rosen, J.D. , or the general support o Yale Law School aculty.
Alfred E. Rosenhirsch Fund () Gi rom Alred E. Rosenhirsch, B.A. , LL.B.
, income to be used or general support.
Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Research Support () Established by a bequest o
Oscar M. Ruebhausen, LL.B. to support the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Proessorship.
Oscar M. Ruebhausen Visiting Scholars () Established by a bequest o Oscar M.
Ruebhausen, LL.B. , to support individuals invited to Yale Law School.
Donald Schapiro (B.A. ’45, J.D. ’49) Faculty Fund () Established by a gi rom
Linda Schapiro and riends, in memory o Donald Schapiro, B.A. , J.D. , to
support the aculty at Yale Law School.
Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center Fund () Established by gis honoring Orville H.
Schell Jr., B.A. , rom the John Merck Fund, his amily, colleagues, and riends, to
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create the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center or International Human Rights Law at Yale Law
School. The purpose o the center is to train and equip a new generation o lawyers, in
Orville’s mold, to carry on the work o human rights advocacy that was so important to
him and that has become vital to our nation and our world.
Shibley Family Fund () Established through a generous bequest rom the late
Raymond N. Shibley, LL.B. , to support a aculty research und devoted to aspects
o post–World War II contracts law.
Harry Shulman Fund () Bequest o Harry Shulman, M.A. Hon. , a member o
the aculty rom to and dean o the Law School rom to .
Richard A. Siegal Dean’s Discretionary Endowment Fund () Established by a gi
rom Richard A. Siegal, J.D. , to be applied to the general purposes o the Yale Law
School.
John G. Simon Fund for Teaching and Research at Yale Law School () Established
by a gi rom Robert C. Pozen, J.D. , J.S.D. , in honor o Proessor John G.
Simon, to support law and economics research, teaching, and related activities associated
with the Law School.
The Soraya-Asef Legal Services Clinic Fund () Established by Dr. Baha Asezadeh
and Dr. Michael S. Singer ’ B.S., ’ M.D., ’ Ph.D. to provide operating support or
Yale Law School clinics that represent clients or advocate on their behal, with preerence
or clinics ocused on immigration issues or reugee assistance. I no such clinic requires
the und’s support, the und may support other clinics ocused on the inringement o
civil rights or related issues.
John D. Spencer Fund () Bequest o John D. Spencer, LL.B. .
Harold G. and Brian R. Sterling Family Fund () Established by a gi rom Brian
R. Sterling, J.D. , and his ather, Harold G. Sterling, J.D. , or the general priori-
ties o the Law School.
Streicker Fund for Student Research () Endowment und established by John
H. Streicker, J.D. , to provide support or student research or educational projects
involving travel, with priority given to projects with international travel requirements,
and to those o sucient duration to allow the recipient the opportunity to become
immersed in some portion o the cultural, legal, or governmental system o the destina-
tion country or region.
Thomas Thacher Fund () Established by a gi rom Thomas Day Thacher, B.A.
, in honor o his ather, Thomas Thacher, B.A. , and later increased by gis rom
Mrs. Thomas Thacher and Mrs. Thomas D. Thacher.
George B. Thayer Fund () Bequest o George B. Thayer, LL.B. .
Cecil F. Travis () Bequest o Cecil F. Travis, LL.B. .
Gordon B. Tweedy Fund () Gi rom Gordon B. Tweedy, B.A. , LL.B. ,
income to be used to support aculty research and programs, particularly in private
international law.
Endowment Funds
Stanley P. Wagman Fund () Established by a gi rom Harriett Gordon Wagman
in memory o her husband, Stanley P. Wagman, J.D. , or the general support o
the Law School.
Wayland Memorial () Gis rom riends o Francis Wayland, M.A. Hon. .
Harry H. Wellington Dean’s Discretionary Fund for Faculty Support () Estab-
lished by a gi rom Alan L. Wurtzel, LL.B. , to support the aculty o Yale Law
School.
The William B. Wolf, Jr. Fund on Women and the Law () Established by Susan M.
Wol, J.D. , her husband, Proessor Gene Borgida, and their amily in honor o her
ather, William B. Wol Jr., LL.B. , to support research, scholarship, and programs
on women and the law.
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Roger S. and Virginia Aaron Scholarship Fund () Gi rom the Aaron amily,
during the thirtieth reunion year o Roger S. Aaron, chairman o the Yale Law School
Fund Board –.
Carolyn E. Agger Endowment for Women in Law () A und established through
the generous bequest o Carolyn E. Agger, LL.B. , o Washington, D.C., a partner in
the law firm o Arnold & Porter. Income rom the und is used to und student scholar-
ships and grants or up to three years to assist graduates who pursue postgraduate legal
studies or who engage in low-paying legal careers.
Davis and Bessie Albert Scholarship Fund () Established by a bequest rom the
estate o Harry M. Albert, LL.B. , in memory o his parents, with a preerence or
residents o Waterbury, Connecticut, the State o Connecticut, or or graduates o Su-
field Academy, Sueld, Conn.
Albrecht Scholarship Fund () Established by a bequest o Arthur Robert Albrecht,
LL.B. , to be used to provide scholarships or law students who are in financial need.
Marion G. and Fred W. Aley Scholarship () A gi rom Marion G. Aley, LL.B. .
R. Bruce Allensworth Scholarship Fund () Established by R. Bruce Allensworth,
J.D. , on the occasion o his thirtieth Law School reunion, or Yale Law School
students, preerably J.D. candidates.
John Page Austin ’39 LL.B. Scholarship in Law () Established by a gi rom
William G. Green, B.A. , in honor o John Page Austin, LL.B. , who spent more
than fiy years at the Caliornia firm o Morrison & Foerster LLP and helped mentor
generations o young attorneys.
James T. Babb Scholarship () Gi in honor o James T. Babb, B.A. , M.A.
Hon. , librarian o Yale University, established by the Steele-Reese Foundation. For
scholarships and ellowships with preerence to students rom the state o Idaho.
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Hugh H. Barber Memorial Scholarship () Gi rom Ronald Barber, in memory o
his brother, Hugh H. Barber, LL.B. .
Curtis H. Barnette Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Curtis H.
Barnette, LL.B. . To be awarded based on the integrity, leadership, and academic and
service perormance o a student. Preerence to graduates o West Virginia University,
Morgantown, West Virginia, or Liberty High School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, or other
West Virginia or Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, colleges.
Thomas D. Barr ’58 Scholarship Fund () Established by Cornelia H. Barr honor-
ing her husband, Thomas D. Barr, LL.B. , with a preerence or students interested
in litigation.
Joseph W. Beatman Fellowship Fund () Gi rom the Beatman Foundation, Inc.
[Frances Levinson (Mrs. Joseph W.) Beatman]. For ellowships, preerence to be given
to those graduate students preparing or teaching careers in American law schools.
The Abraham, Eva, and Leonard Becker Scholarship Fund () Established by the
estate o Leonard H. Becker ’ LL.B. to provide financial assistance to Yale Law School
students and graduates, with preerence or individuals rom the State o Maine.
Edward R. Becker ’57 Scholarship () Established by gis rom the Becker amily,
ormer law clerks, and riends o the Honorable Edward R. Becker, LL.B. , with a
preerence or students rom the greater Philadelphia area.
William John Beecher Scholarship () Marguerite K. Beecher and Florence Beecher
Budd in memory o their ather, William John Beecher, LL.B. .
William S. Beinecke Scholarship Fund () Gi rom William S. Beinecke, B.A.
, the income to be used or scholarships or outstanding representatives o minority
groups.
Murray Berrie Fund () Established by Murray L. Berrie and his amily or Ameri-
can graduate students interested in constitutional law and civil liberties.
Samuel R. Betts Scholarship () Samuel R. Betts, B.A. ; continued aer his
death in rom income o a general bequest or the benefit o the Law School.
William Bingham Scholarship () William Bingham II, o Bethel, Maine. Awarded
to candidates (in the order mentioned) rom the town o Bethel, rom other towns in
Oxord County, or rom elsewhere in the state o Maine.
Boris I. Bittker Scholarship () Made possible by a bequest o Boris I. Bittker, LL.B.
, M.A.Hon. , or scholarships or loan orgiveness.
William B. Bosley Fund () Gi rom the Estate o Mrs. Jeanette D. Bosley in
memory o her husband, William B. Bosley, B.A. , LL.B. .
Eugene Francis Boyer Memorial Scholarship Fund () Bequest o Esther Dodd
Boyer in memory o her husband, Eugene Francis Boyer, Ph.B. . Preerence in award,
first, to students who are descendants o three or more generations o Connecticut
residents, and secondly, to students who are Connecticut residents o shorter duration.
Endowment Funds
Ava Brackett Scholarship Fund () Established in memory o Ava Brackett, J.D.
, by amily members, riends, and classmates. To be awarded to dedicated students
who embody Ava’s humanitarian commitment and intellectual drive.
Bernard and Helen Brandes Scholarship Fund () Established by Bernard E.
Brandes, LL.B. , and members o his amily, to be used or gi or loan scholarships
or needy students not otherwise provided or by financial aid.
Elizabeth Warke Brem Memorial Fund () Established by a gi rom Gibson Dunn
& Crutcher in memory o Elizabeth Warke Brem, J.D. , or scholarships at Yale Law
School with a preerence or Hispanic women students.
Edgar H. Brenner ’54 Scholarship Fund () Established by a grant rom the Stella
and Charles Guttman Foundation in honor o Edgar H. Brenner, J.D. , member o
the Board o the Foundation or orty-nine years, serving as President rom to .
Guido Calabresi ’58 Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom the Lillian
Goldman Charitable Trust to honor Guido Calabresi, B.S. , LL.B. , M.A.H.
, United States Circuit Judge and Dean and Sterling Proessor at Yale Law School,
with a preerence or students who are immigrants or are the children o immigrants to
the United States.
Calhoun Scholarship Fund of Phi Alpha Delta and Book and Gavel () A gi rom
the members o the Calhoun (Yale) chapter o Phi Alpha Delta raternity. Income to be
used to aid undergraduate students and graduate ellows in the School; preerence to be
given to qualiying sons and daughters o members o Phi Alpha Delta.
Robert Fisk Cavanagh ’56, ’59 J.D. Scholarship () Established in memory o Bob
Cavanagh, or Yale Law School students who share the spirit o local civic commitment
that he exemplified over the course o his fiy-year proessional lie.
Chan-Loo Scholarship Fund () Gi rom the estate o Sau Ung Loo Chan, J.D.
, in honor o her parents, Joe Loo and Choy Shee Loo, to assist students rom Hawaii.
Charles E. Clark Fund () Gis in honor o Judge Charles E. Clark, B.A. , LL.B.
, dean o the Law School rom to , rom alumni and riends. The income
to be allocated by the dean either to scholarships or to the purchase o books or the Yale
law library.
Chauncey I. Clark Scholarships () Bequest o Lottie V. J. Clark in memory o her
husband, Chauncey I. Clark, LL.B. , or many years a leading member o the New
York Admiralty Bar.
Class of 1988 Scholarships Fund () Established by a gi rom the members o the
Class o or scholarships in the Law School.
Hillary Rodham Clinton Fund for Public Interest () Established by gis rom
classmates and riends o Hillary Rodham Clinton, J.D. , to support the Hillary
Rodham Clinton Public Interest Fellowship, to encourage and support recent law gradu-
ates committed to public service, enabling them to spend one year working ull-time
with a U.S. host organization on behal o disadvantaged or underrepresented groups.
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Abraham J. and Jeannette Cohen Scholarship () Established by George M. Cohen,
LL.B. , in memory o his parents, Abraham and Jeannette Cohen.
George M. Cohen Scholarship () Established in memory o George M. Cohen,
LL.B. , by amily, riends, classmates, and his partners at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen &
Hamilton, New York City.
Peter P. Coladarci Scholarship Fund () Gis rom amily members and riends
in memory o Peter P. Coladarci, LL.B. , a distinguished Chicago practitioner, to
provide financial assistance to Yale Law School students and graduates or scholarships,
summer internships, and loan orgiveness.
Robert E. Cone Scholarship () Established by Mrs. Harold M. Cone as a memorial
to her son, Robert E. Cone. To be awarded periodically to members o the student body
who demonstrate a special interest in the field o civil liberties and civil rights and who
are in financial need.
Joseph L. Connor Scholarship Fund () Gi rom the Estate o Joseph L. Connor,
LL.B. .
James Cogswell Converse Scholarship Fund () Established through the bequest
o Edith D. Converse, to support scholarships in memory o James Cogswell Converse,
Yale College Class o .
E. Virgil Conway Scholarship Fund () Established by E. Virgil Conway, LL.B.
, to be awarded annually as a scholarship.
Walter Wheeler Cook Scholarship () Gi in honor o Proessor Walter Wheeler
Cook, B.A., M.A., LL.D., member o the aculty rom to , rom the May Treat
Morrison Foundation o San Francisco, Caliornia.
Corbey Court Scholarship () Gi rom the Townsend Trust Association.
Arthur Linton Corbin Scholarship () Gi in honor o Proessor Arthur L. Corbin,
LL.B. , LL.D. , member o the aculty rom to , rom the May Treat
Morrison Foundation o San Francisco, Caliornia.
David L. Corbin Scholarship () Established by riends in memory o David L.
Corbin, B.A. , LL.B. .
Oscar Cox Memorial Scholarship () Established by his amily in memory o
Oscar Cox, B.A. , LL.B. , or the purpose o providing scholarship assistance to
talented students with preerence to Law School applicants o Italian, Belgian, or French
nationality.
Lloyd N. Cutler Scholarship Fund () Established by the law firm o Wilmer, Cutler
and Pickering in honor o Lloyd N. Cutler, LL.B. , to support tuition scholarships
based on financial need, academic excellence, and demonstrated commitment to public
service.
Richard B. ’59, Felice R. ’60, and Stephen M. ’85 Cutler Scholarship Fund () Estab-
lished by a gi rom Stephen M. Cutler, J.D. , in honor o his parents, Richard B.
Cutler, LL.B. , and Felice R. Cutler, LL.B. .
Endowment Funds
Cynthia H. Cwik Scholarship Fund () Established by Cynthia H. Cwik ’ J.D. to
provide financial assistance, including but not limited to scholarships, summer intern-
ships, and loan orgiveness, to Yale Law School students and graduates.
Czaja Family Scholarship Fund () Established by Richard F. Czaja, B.A. , J.D.
, to provide financial assistance to Yale Law School students and graduates with
demonstrated financial need or scholarships, summer internships, and loan orgiveness.
William B. Davenport Fund () Established by Proessor Shepherd Stevens, B.F.A.
, in memory o his uncle, William B. Davenport, B.A. , M.A. Hon. .
Rita Charmatz Davidson/Class of 1951 Fund () Established by members o the
Class o in memory o Judge Davidson, LL.B. , Associate Judge o the Maryland
Supreme Court, on the occasion o their thirty-fih reunion, to assist graduates in public
interest careers.
David S. Day Scholarship Fund () Bequest o Natalie C. Day in memory o her
husband, David S. Day, B.A. , LL.B. . Preerence to students rom Fairfield
County, Connecticut.
Arthur H. Dean Scholarship Fund () Gi o certain partners o Arthur H. Dean in
the law firm o Sullivan & Cromwell, created with a preerence that the aid be awarded
as gis, but with the right o the dean o the Law School, at the dean’s discretion, to use
the und or loans.
Debevoise & Plimpton Scholarship Fund () Established by gis rom Oscar M.
Ruebhausen, LL.B. , and members o the firm.
John B. Dempsey Scholarship () Gi rom Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, o Cleve-
land, Ohio, in memory o John B. Dempsey, B.A. , M.A. .
Peter H. Dominick Scholarship Fund () Bequest o Peter Dominick, LL.B. ,
or students in the Law School whose legal residence is in Colorado or who are graduates
o a university or college in Colorado.
Harry Durant Award () Bequest o Harry R. Durant, LL.B. , to provide annual
scholarship awards to a Connecticut student or students attending the Law School, on
the basis o character, courage, and skill.
John Hart Ely Fund () Established by a gi rom Robert Ely, son o John Hart Ely,
LL.B. , M.A.H. , LL.D. , to support Yale Law School graduates participat-
ing in the Career Options Assistance Program.
Irving M. Engel Scholarship Fund () Established by riends o Irving M. Engel,
LL.B. , to support study and research in the area o civil rights and civil liberties.
David R. Evans Scholarship Fund () Established by members o the Class o
and other riends in memory o David R. Evans, B.A. , M.A. , LL.B. .
J. Fuller Feder Scholarship Fund () Established by a bequest rom Joseph F.
McCrindle, LL.B. , in memory o his grandather, to assist students with tuition
and other school-related expenses.
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Irving Fishman, Philip Goldhammer, and Louis Fishman Memorial Scholarship Fund
() Established by Jean and Richard Fishman, J.D. , in memory o their athers
and uncle and by the estate o Louis Fishman or the purpose o helping students in need
o financial aid.
Samuel S. and Evelyn R. Flug Memorial Scholarship Fund () Established by
Martin Flug, J.D. , in memory o his ather and mother, Samuel S. and Evelyn
R. Flug.
Frederick D. and Lillian S. Forsch Scholarship Fund () Established by a bequest
o Frederick D. Forsch, LL.B. , or scholarships in the Law School.
Richard I. Galland Fellowship Fund () Gi rom Richard I. Galland, B.A. ,
J.D. .
Alvin Gallen ’46 LL.B. Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Claire
Edersheim in honor o her late husband or the benefit o one or more J.D. candidates at
Yale Law School with demonstrated financial need.
Annie G. K. Garland Memorial Scholarships () William J. Garland in memory o
his wie. Preerence to be given to Yale College graduates who have established strong
records.
Lillian Goldman Perpetual Scholarship Fund () Established by Lillian Goldman
o New York City, a distinguished businesswoman, philanthropist, and riend o Yale
Law School. The income provides scholarships or students in financial need who have a
demonstrated interest in women’s rights, with a preerence or women students.
The Sol Goldman Loan Repayment Fund () Established by the Sol Goldman
Charitable Trust to promote a wide range o career opportunities by providing Yale Law
School graduates working in modestly paid positions with education loan repayment
assistance.
The Sol Goldman Rights and Justice Fund () Established by the Sol Goldman
Charitable Trust to promote careers in human rights and civil rights law and advocacy by
providing Yale Law School graduates working in modestly paid positions with education
loan repayment assistance.
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund I () Established by the Horace W.
Goldsmith Foundation to support the Career Options Assistance Program.
Elliott Goldstein Scholarship () Established by gis rom Elliott Goldstein, LL.B.
, and his partners in the firm o Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy. Preerence or
a student who excels in the field o corporate law.
Justin M. Golenbock Memorial Fund () Gi rom the law firm o Golenbock and
Barell, and amily and riends o Justin M. Golenbock, LL.B. . To assist graduates
in public interest careers.
James Raymond Goodrich Memorial Scholarships () Charles Stillman, B.A. ,
in memory o his uncle, James Raymond Goodrich, B.A. . Assigned to students in the
Endowment Funds
graduate and proessional schools o the University who have high scholarship records
and give promise o leadership.
Peter Gross Financial Aid Fund () Established by a gi rom Peter Gross, J.D. ,
to provide financial aid to Yale Law School students/graduates, with a preerence or the
Career Options Assistance Program (COAP), the School’s loan orgiveness program, in
accordance with the policies in eect at the time o the award.
Lani Guinier ’74 Memorial Scholarship () Established by the amily o Lani
Guinier in honor o her legacy and passion or civil rights.
Allison and Najeeb E. Halaby Scholarship () Established by gis rom Jane
Allison Halaby and Najeeb E. Halaby, LL.B. , or a deserving law student interested
in the American political system.
Joey Hanzich 2010 Fund () Established by Yale Law School and gis rom relatives
and riends in memory o Joey Hanzich, a member o the Class o , to provide
financial aid to students committed to public service and the common good; may also be
used to support activities related to health care law and policy.
Hugh E. Henson Endowed Fund () Established by a bequest o Hugh Henson,
LL.B. , to be used or scholarships.
Carroll C. Hincks Memorial Fund () Gis in honor o Judge Carroll C. Hincks,
B.A. , LL.B. , LL.D. , rom his law clerks and riends.
Robert Hixon Scholarship Fund () Established by Marguerite S. Hixon in memory
o her husband, Robert Hixon, B.A. .
Harold and Lillian Homan Scholarship () Established by a gi rom Harold M.
Homan, LL.B. , and Lillian Homan, in memory o Hyman Homan. Preerence
in award is to be given to CUNY graduates with demonstrated financial need.
John A. Hoober Scholarship () Gi rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Donald J. and Lynda M. Horowitz Scholarship () Established by a gi rom
Donald J. Horowitz, LL.B. , and Lynda M. Horowitz, to provide scholarships or
students who demonstrate financial need, scholastic ability, and a conscientious concern
or serving the well-being o others.
Hundt Family Law Fellowship Fund () Established by a gi rom Reed E. Hundt
’ B.A., ’ J.D., to provide financial assistance to Yale Law School students and gradu-
ates with an interest in pursuing public service employment. The und may support
scholarships, summer internships, and graduates participating in the Career Options
Assistance Program.
Soledad ’92 and Robert Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program () Established by a
gi rom Soledad DeLeon Hurst and Robert J. Hurst to provide scholarships to students
within Yale Law School who qualiy or the Horizon Scholarship Program. First preer-
ence will be given to qualified students who attended the University o Oregon. Each
student supported by the Fund will be known as a Soledad ’ and Robert Hurst Scholar.
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Sarah Ives Hurtt Scholarship () Gi rom Francis D. Hurtt, LL.B. , in memory
o his mother.
Quintin Johnstone Scholarship () Established by the CATIC Foundation in honor
o Proessor Quintin Johnstone, with a preerence or students interested in real property
law or property law.
Paul E. Kalb, M.D., J.D., and Susan M. Ascher, M.D., Scholarship Fund ()
Established by a gi rom Paul E. Kalb, J.D. , and his wie, Dr. Susan M. Ascher, or
scholarships, with a preerence or students with an interest in law and health.
Katsutaro Kataoka Scholarship Fund () Established by an anonymous bequest
to Yale Law School or scholarships or J.D. students with preerence or students o
Hispanic or Haitian origin, more particularly students o Mexican, Central American, or
Caribbean origin. In the event that there are no candidates who meet these preerences,
preerence should be given to students who are citizens o and residents in underdevel-
oped countries.
Edwin P. Kaufman Scholarship () Gi rom his classmates and riends in memory
o Edwin P. Kauman, LL.B. .
Ken K. Kelley III ’66 Memorial Scholarship Fund () Established in memory o
Kendrick K. Kelley III, LL.B. , through gis o his classmates, amily, and riends to
provide financial aid to students within the Yale Law School including, but not limited
to, tuition, room, board, and other education expenses.
Frank Kenna Scholarship Fund () Established by Mrs. Frank Kenna in memory o
her husband, Frank Kenna, LL.B. . Preerence to residents o Connecticut.
Robert D. Kennedy Fund () Bequest rom Robert D. Kennedy, a riend o the Law
School who was neither a lawyer nor an alumnus o Yale.
Thomas Goddard Kent Scholarship () Gi rom Lucy A. Kent in memory o her
husband, Thomas Goddard Kent, B.A. .
Judge Carolyn Dineen King Scholarship Fund () Gis rom the amily o
Carolyn Dineen King, LL.B. , Judge o the United States Court o Appeals or the
Fih Circuit.
Hans A. Klagsbrunn ’32 and Dr. Elizabeth Ramsey Student Aid Fund () A gi by
bequest rom a distinguished Washington lawyer and his wie, a physician, he a graduate
o the Law School and she o the Yale School o Medicine, that is shared equally by both.
In the Law School, the endowment is used both or scholarships and or support o the
loan deerral and orgiveness program.
Patricia and John Koskinen Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom John
A. Koskinen, LL.B. , to provide financial aid to students within Yale Law School in
accordance with the policies in eect at the time o the award.
Gerald Beryl Kramer Scholarship () Established by Beulah Kramer in memory o
her brother, Gerald Beryl Kramer, B.A. . To support second- or third-year students
who demonstrate good scholarship, character, personal merit, and financial need.
Endowment Funds
Albert E. Lamb Memorial Scholarship () Bequest o Grace Fay Lamb in memory
o her ather, Albert E. Lamb, B.A. .
Ruth and Benjamin Layton Memorial Scholarship () Established by Robert
Layton, LL.B. , in memory o his parents. Preerence or students interested in
international law.
Raphael Lemkin Scholarship Fund () Gis rom an anonymous alumnus and
riend to honor the memory o Raphael Lemkin, visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law
School rom to , whose scholarship and advocacy inspired the United Nations
in to adopt the Genocide Convention.
Betsy Levin ’66 Scholarship Fund () Established by Betsy Levin ’ LL.B. to
provide financial assistance to Yale Law School students, including but not limited to
academic-year scholarships and summer public interest ellowships.
Mark Levy ’75 Memorial Scholarship Fund () Established by gis rom amily,
riends, and classmates in memory o Mark Levy, J.D. . To be awarded to one or
more J.D. candidates at Yale Law School, with a preerence or students with an interest
in pursuing a career in public service.
Julius Lewis Scholarship Fund () Established by a bequest rom Julius Lewis to
provide financial aid to students attending Yale Law School on a ull-time basis.
Herbert R. Limburg Scholarship () Anonymous gi in memory o Herbert R.
Limburg, a member o the Yale College Class o .
Littauer Public Interest Careers Assistance Fund () Established by gis rom the
Lucius N. Littauer Foundation to assist graduates in public interest careers.
J. B. Long Ranch Scholarship () A gi rom the estate o Fred A. Johnston, LL.B.
, in the name o the Montana ranch homesteaded in by Mr. Johnston’s ances-
tors, which under his ownership became a model o natural resources management and
animal husbandry. Preerence is given to residents o Montana.
Ernest G. Lorenzen Memorial Scholarship () Gi rom Joseph H. Colman, B.A.
, LL.B. , in memory o Proessor Lorenzen, M.A. Hon. , a member o the
aculty rom to .
The Elias and Essie Mag Fund () Established by many descendants o Elias and
Essie Mag, seven o whom graduated rom the Yale Law School. To be awarded as
scholarship unds.
Nathan E. Mag Scholarship Fund () Bequest o Arthur Mag, Ph.B. , LL.B.
, in memory o his ather, Nathan E. Mag, or scholarships, with a preerence or
students who have an interest or involvement in social justice.
Paul and Lisa Mandell Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Paul
Mandell, J.D. , to support one or more J.D. candidates at Yale Law School, with a
preerence or students rom the University o Maryland at College Park.
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Charles F. Martin ’35 Scholarship Fund () Established by gi rom Mrs. Dorcas
M. Little, sister o Charles F. Martin, B.A. , J.D. , to support financially needy
students pursuing corporate law interests. Preerence is given to residents o the state o
Connecticut, who, assuming satisactory academic perormance and continuing financial
need, may receive continuing grants or up to three years o law study.
Walter A. Marting Scholarship () Gi rom Walter A. Marting, LL.B. , and the
Hanna Mining Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
Myres S. McDougal Fellowship () Gi in honor o Proessor Myres S. McDougal,
J.S.D. , member o the aculty rom to , rom Dr. Anton-Hermann Chroust;
ellowship to be awarded to a law student designated by the dean.
Warner Thornton McGuinn Scholarship Fund () Organized by Akosua Barthwell
Evans, J.D. , and established by gis rom alumni and riends o Yale Law School in
memory o Warner Thornton McGuinn, LL.B. , a well-known Baltimore lawyer and
civil rights leader, and an early Arican American graduate o the School.
Edward A. and Marion D. McKirdy Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi
rom Edward D. McKirdy, J.D. , in memory o his parents, to provide scholarships
or students with demonstrated financial need.
Ivan S. Meitus Memorial Scholarship () Gi in memory o Ivan S. Meitus, LL.B.
, rom a trust established by his amily, or Jewish law students at Yale Law School.
Buckingham P. Merriman Scholarship () Gi rom Buckingham P. Merriman,
B.A. , LL.B. .
Laura Ariane “Laurie” Miller ’88 Scholarship Fund () Established by Laura Ariane
Miller, J.D. , to provide financial assistance to one or more J.D. candidates at Yale
Law School with a preerence or students who were employed in government service
prior to attending Yale Law School.
Rory O. Millson Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Rory O. Millson,
B.A. , J.D. , on the occasion o his th Reunion, to support J.D. candidates at
Yale Law School.
Robert Clark Morris Scholarships () Bequest o Robert Clark Morris, LL.B. .
Yasuharu Nagashima Scholarship Fund () Established by an anonymous bequest
to Yale Law School or scholarships or J.D. students with preerence or students o
Hispanic or Haitian origin, more particularly students o Mexican, Central American, or
Caribbean origin. In the event that there are no candidates who meet these preerences,
preerence should be given to students who are citizens o and residents in underdevel-
oped countries.
David Nerkle Family Scholarship Fund () Established by amily, classmates, and
riends in memory o David Nerkle, J.D. , his wie, Bibiana Hernandez, and their
son, David Gustavo Nerkle, to support awards to financially needy students who exhibit
special interest in international law and economic development. Preerence is given to
Endowment Funds
second-year law students interested in summer work, and graduating students who
intend to pursue a career in international law.
Milton I. Newman Scholarship Fund () Gi rom the estate o Milton I. Newman,
B.A. , LL.B. . Income to be used or scholarships at the discretion o the dean
o the Law School.
Quigg Newton, B.A. ’33, J.D. ’36, M.A.H. ’51 Scholarship Fund in Yale Law School ()
Gi o Quigg Newton, J.D. ; mayor o Denver, Colorado, –; and president
o the University o Colorado, –; also the donor o a scholarship in Yale College.
David and Patricia Nierenberg Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom
David and Patricia Nierenberg to provide financial aid in the orm o scholarships to stu-
dents who qualiy or The Soledad ’ and Robert Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program
at Yale Law School. Each student supported by the Fund shall be known as a David and
Patricia Nierenberg Scholar.
Robert J. Nordhaus Indian Law Scholarship () Established in honor o Robert J.
Nordhaus, Ph.B. , J.D. , by his son Robert R. Nordhaus; the firm o Nordhaus,
Haltom, Taylor & Taradash; the firm o Van Ness, Feldman, Sutclie & Curtis; and other
riends o Mr. Nordhaus. Preerence to Native American students.
Walter W. Oberreit Memorial Scholarship () Established in honor o Walter W.
Oberreit ’ by the partners o the firm o Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, to provide
financial assistance or meritorious LL.M. candidates rom Europe.
Marvin L. Olshan Scholarship Fund () Gi rom Marvin L. Olshan, J.D. .
Jacob H. and Kathryn Grear Oxman Scholarship Fund () Established by David C.
Oxman, J.D. , in memory o his parents, to provide scholarships or students rom
the state o New Jersey and the state o Arkansas.
Eliza Townsend Parker Scholarship () Bequest rom Joseph Parker o New Haven
in memory o his sister. Preerence to students wishing to pursue graduate work with a
view to becoming teachers o law.
Richard Martin Paskus Memorial Scholarship () Mrs. Martin Paskus in memory
o her son, Richard Martin Paskus, B.A. . Preerence, i practicable, to students
entering rom New York City.
James C.N. Paul Scholarship Fund () James C.N. Paul was the ounding dean o
Ethiopia’s first law school, and he and many colleagues established a donor-advised und
at the Tides Foundation to support legal education there and in Eritrea. On his death,
the unds were transerred to Yale Law School to support one or more LL.M. or J.S.D.
candidates at Yale Law School seeking to advance a law teaching career in Ethiopia or
Eritrea. I no such students rom these countries are available in a given year, then the
Law School may use income rom the und to support programmatic or student activities
related to human rights or social justice issues in Ethiopia, Eritrea, or other parts o
sub-Saharan Arica.
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Frederick L. Perry Scholarship () Gi rom Frederick L. Perry, LL.B. , LL.M.
, and Mrs. Perry.
Richard Ravitch ’58 Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Richard
Ravitch ’ to provide financial support to deserving students.
Glenn M. Reiter Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Glenn M. Reiter,
Yale College Class o (B.A.) and Yale Law School Class o (J.D.), on the occa-
sion o his thirtieth Law School reunion.
Patricia and Timothy Reynolds Financial Aid Fund () Established by a gi rom
Michael T. Reynolds, J.D. , to provide financial aid to students within the Yale Law
School, in accordance with the policies in eect at the time o the award.
Henry Ralph Ringe Scholarship () Established by bequest rom H. Ralph Ringe,
LL.B. . For citizens o a Latin American country.
Barbara Paul Robinson Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Ms.
Robinson, LL.B. , on the occasion o her orty-fih reunion, with a preerence or
women students.
Eric S. and Sally Spears Robinson Fund () Established by a gi rom Eric S.
Robinson, J.D. , and Sally Spears Robinson, J.D. , in honor o their twenty-
fih reunion, to support Yale Law School graduates participating in the Career Options
Assistance Program.
Sanford and Catherine Rosen Public Interest Law Scholarship Fund () Estab-
lished by a gi rom Sanord Jay Rosen to support one or more J.D. candidates at Yale
Law School working in public interest summer jobs.
Walter Bigelow Rosen Scholarship Fund () Gi rom Mrs. Anne Bigelow Stern
in memory o her brother, Walter Bigelow Rosen, LL.B. , who died in World War
II in the service o the Royal Canadian Air Force. Awards are made with a preerence or
minority students and students with unusually strong financial needs.
Rosenblum-Witt Scholarship () Established by Steve Rosenblum, J.D. , and
Monique Witt, J.D. , on the occasion o their twenty-fih reunion, to be used either
or scholarships or support o the loan deerral and orgiveness program.
Nelson and Celia D. Rostow Scholarship Fund () Bequests rom Nelson Rostow
and Celia D. Rostow, the income rom which is used to convert loans retroactively to
scholarships through the Career Options Assistance Program.
Ernest Rubenstein Scholarship () Established by Martin Flug, J.D. , in honor
o Ernest Rubenstein, LL.B. . For student scholarships and library acquisitions
(including honoraria or related lectures or research projects).
Phyllis Jacobs Rubenstein Scholarship () Established by Ernest Rubenstein, LL.B.
, in memory o his wie. Preerence given to women students.
Sarah L. Russell ’82 Fund () Established by Theodore S. Beers in honor o his
mother to provide financial assistance to Yale Law School students, preerably to support
Endowment Funds
student research projects and public interest projects or to und summer public interest
ellowships.
Derald H. Ruttenberg (LL.B. 1940) Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi
rom Derald H. Ruttenberg, LL.B. , or scholarships or graduate ellowships.
A. Henry Saranec Scholarship Fund () Bequest o A. Henry Saranec, LL.B. ,
o Midland, Texas, a lawyer and businessman.
Bette and Ralph Saul Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Ralph S.
Saul, LL.B. , and his wie, Bette, or Yale Law School students.
Benjamin Scharps and David Scharps Scholarships () Established by the estates o
Benjamin Scharps, B.A. , and David Scharps, B.A. , to provide five scholarships
or members o the third-year class who have done meritorious research in the second-
year course o study.
Donald E. Scott ’73 Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Donald E.
Scott, J.D. .
Joan Keyes Scott Memorial () Established by gis rom Robert C. L. Scott, other
amily members, and riends, in memory o Joan Keyes Scott, LL.B. ; or women
students.
Martin L. Senzel Scholarship Fund () Student grants made possible by an endow-
ment created by Martin L. Senzel, J.D. , as a part o the Cravath, Swaine & Moore
law firm’s gi to the Campaign or Yale Law School. Preerence is extended to residents
o Rochester, New York, and next aer that Monroe and Dutchess counties in New York
State.
Earl Wallace Shapiro Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom Brenda
Shapiro in memory o her husband, Earl Wallace Shapiro, J.D. , to provide financial
assistance to Yale Law School students and graduates or scholarships, summer intern-
ships, and loan orgiveness.
Lazelle S. Shockley Fund () Bequest rom Lazelle S. Shockley, LL.D. . Income
to be used or scholarships or ellowships, with preerence to be given to veterans.
Harry Shulman Memorial Scholarship Fund () Established by the aculty o the
Law School with unds le to the School by Dean Shulman, and gis rom his riends.
Joel D. Siegal Scholarship Fund () Established by Joel D. Siegal, LL.B. , on
the occasion o his fiieth Law School reunion, or Yale Law School students, with a
preerence or minority students who are citizens o the United States.
Spencer Victor Silverthorne, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund () A gi in memory
o Spencer V. Silverthorne Jr., LL.B. .
Professor John G. Simon Scholarship Fund () Established by Seth M. Hendon,
J.D. , and Kathryn Dove-Hendon, to provide financial assistance to Yale Law School
students and graduates with demonstrated financial need or scholarships and loan
orgiveness.
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Earnest Clyde Simpson Scholarship Fund () Established by gis rom his amily
in memory o Judge Earnest Clyde Simpson, LL.B. . To be used or one or more
worthy and deserving students, preerably rom Connecticut.
Walter T. Skallerup, Jr. Memorial Fund () Established by gis rom his amily
and classmates in memory o Walter T. Skallerup Jr., LL.B. , general counsel o the
Navy and ormer chairman o the Yale Law School Fund, to assist graduates in public
interest careers.
J. Joseph Smith Memorial Fund () Established by ormer law clerks, classmates,
relatives, and riends in memory o J. Joseph Smith, B.A. , LL.B. , Senior Judge
o the U.S. Court o Appeals or the Second Circuit.
Senator Arlen Specter ’56 Scholarship () For talented and deserving students at
Yale Law School.
Benjamin F. Stapleton, Jr. Scholarship () Established by Benjamin F. Stapleton
III, LL.B. , in memory o his ather, Benjamin F. Stapleton Jr., LL.B. , to support
Yale Law School students who also study at the Yale School o the Environment. In
the event that no student is eligible in any given year, scholarships are awarded to Law
School students rom the Rocky Mountain States.
Neal Steinman Scholarship Fund () Created through the generosity o am-
ily, riends, and members o the Philadelphia law firm o Blank, Rome, Comisky &
McCauley, to memorialize Neal Steinman, J.D. , an adviser to governments and
their underserved constituencies. Preerence is given to first-generation proessionals.
Sterling Law Fellowship () A bequest rom John W. Sterling, B.A. .
Roy H. Steyer Memorial Scholarship Fund () Established in memory o Roy
H. Steyer, LL.B. , by amily, riends, and members o the law firm o Sullivan &
Cromwell. For needy students, with a preerence to representatives o minority groups.
Gregory Stone Scholarship () Established by a gi rom Gregory P. Stone, J.D.
, in honor o his thirtieth reunion, or scholarships in the Law School.
Thomas Walter Swan Scholarship () Gi in honor o Thomas W. Swan, B.A.,
LL.B., M.A., LL.D., dean rom to , rom the May Treat Morrison Foundation
o San Francisco, Caliornia.
Jack B. Tate Memorial Fund () Established by his riends in memory o Jack B.
Tate, LL.B. , M.A. Hon. , associate dean and proessor o law rom to .
Augmented substantially in by a bequest rom Peter S. Kramaric, LL.B. .
James A. Thomas ’64 Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi o David A. Jones,
J.D. , in honor o ormer Associate Dean James A. Thomas, J.D. , to provide
scholarships to Yale Law School students.
David Torrance Scholarship () Gi o Margaret Torrance Holmes in memory o
her ather, the Honorable David Torrance, M.A. Hon. , Chie Justice o the Supreme
Court o Errors o Connecticut, and proessor o evidence in the Law School.
Endowment Funds
Townsend Trust Association (Corbey Court) Scholarship () Gi rom Richard
C. Hunt, LL.B. .
Max and Edward Traurig Fund () Gi o Max Traurig, B.A. , LL.B. , and
Edward Traurig, B.A. , LL.B. , or scholarships or loans to students in the Law
School. Preerence where possible to students rom the Waterbury, Connecticut, area.
H. Stewart Tremaine Scholarship () Established by a gi rom H. Stewart
Tremaine, LL.B. , to support scholarships or students, preerably rom a Western
state.
United States Steel Foundation Scholarship Fund () Gi rom the United States
Steel Foundation.
Richard Urowsky Scholarship Fund () Established by a bequest o Richard J.
Urowsky, B.A. , J.D. , to provide financial assistance to Yale Law School students
and graduates with demonstrated financial need or scholarships, summer internships,
and loan orgiveness.
Walker/Abbott Fund () Established by a gi rom the estate o Elizabeth C. Abbott
in honor o her first and second husbands, Roy C. Abbott, B.A. , and John D. Walker,
B.A. , LL.B. , or scholarships in Yale College and Yale Law School.
Waltz-Edman Fund () Established by a gi rom the estate o Jon R. Waltz, LL.B.
, and Ross Edman or student scholarships.
Malcolm D. Watson Memorial Fund () Established by classmates, relatives, and
other riends o Malcolm D. Watson, B.A. , LL.B. . To aid one or more needy
students with preerence to students rom the state o New Jersey.
William Welling Werntz Scholarship Fund () Established by amily and riends
in memory o William Welling Werntz, B.A. , LL.B. . Preerence given to those
students interested in the area o legal accounting.
Wilmot F. Wheeler Memorial Fund () A gi in memory o Wilmot F. Wheeler,
LL.B. , rom the trustees o the Wilmot F. Wheeler Foundation, Inc., o Connecticut,
Mrs. Wilmot F. Wheeler, Wilmot F. Wheeler Jr., B.A. , and Halsted W. Wheeler,
B.E. . To be used as determined annually by the dean or needy students or or the
acquisition o books or the law library.
Norman Williams, Jr. Fund () Established by a gi rom the estate o Norman
Williams Jr., B.A. , LL.B. , to support a participant in the Career Options
Assistance Program.
Joseph E. Willis Memorial Scholarship Fund () Established by John C. Taylor,
rd, LL.B. , in memory o his grandather Joseph E. Willis.
Allen Townsend Winmill Scholarship () Established by a gi rom Dorothy Ball
Winmill Pope in memory o her husband, Allen Townsend Winmill, LL.B. .
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Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. ’60 Scholarship Fund () Established by a gi rom
Christopher L. DeLong, J.D. , to provide financial assistance to Yale Law School
students and graduates, including but not limited to scholarships, summer internships,
and loan orgiveness.
Peter E. Yaeger Memorial Scholarship Fund () Established in memory o Peter E.
Yaeger, LL.B. , by his amily and riends.
George C. Zachary ’55 Memorial Scholarship Fund () Created by a gi rom Helen
Zarakovitis in memory o her brother, George C. Zachary. Preerence is given to orphans
or students with unusually significant financial need.
Eugene M. Zuckert Class of 1937 Scholarship () Gi rom Eugene M. Zuckert,
LL.B. , and augmented by a gi rom his widow, Harriet J. Zuckert.
Sherman Baldwin Memorial () A gi in honor o Sherman Baldwin, LL.B. ,
rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Simeon E. Baldwin Memorial () A gi in memory o Proessor Simeon E. Baldwin,
B.A. , rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Albert H. Barclay Memorial () A gi in memory o Albert H. Barclay, LL.B. ,
rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Judah Philip Benjamin () A gi in memory o Judah Philip Benjamin, Yale College
Class o , rom “A New York Lawyer.”
Charles Raymond Bentley Memorial () A gi in memory o Charles Raymond
Bentley, B.A. , rom Janet E. (Mrs. C. R.) Bentley.
Edwin F. Blair Memorial () A gi in honor o Edwin F. Blair, LL.B. , rom John
A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Gary and Brian Bookman Literature and Arts Journal Fund () To support the
acquisition and collections care o library materials, with a preerence or material across
all media relating to arts and literature, established by Robert Bookman, J.D. , in
honor o his sons.
Edward Grant Buckland Memorial () A gi in memory o Proessor Edward Grant
Buckland, LL.B. , rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Edward Field Burr Memorial Fund () Gis in memory o Edward Field Burr rom
amily, riends, and Law School graduates, or library acquisitions.
John D. Calhoun Memorial () Gis in honor o John D. Calhoun, LL.B. , rom
members o the Class o and riends.
Arthur W. Chambers Memorial () A gi in honor o Arthur W. Chambers, LL.B.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Endowment Funds
Charles E. Clark Memorial () A gi in honor o Dean Charles E. Clark, LL.B. ,
rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Alan P. Colodny Memorial Fund () A gi in honor o Alan P. Colodny, LL.B. ,
rom riends and relatives.
Arthur L. Corbin, Jr. Memorial () A gi in honor o Arthur L. Corbin Jr., LL.B.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Sidney W. Davidson Memorial () A gi in honor o Sidney W. Davidson, LL.B.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Arthur Hobson Dean Purchase Fund in International Law () Gis in honor o
Arthur Hobson Dean, partner in the law firm o Sullivan & Cromwell o New York City,
rom members o the firm, John C. Jaqua Jr., LL.B. ; George C. Kern Jr., LL.B. ;
John R. Raben, LL.B. ; Vincent A. Rodriguez, LL.B. ; Roy H. Steyer, LL.B.
; Stuart W. Thayer, LL.B. .
Ganson Goodyear Depew Memorial () A gi rom his ather, Ganson Depew, and
bequest o Ganson Goodyear Depew, LL.B. . Income available in the alternative to
assist in the publication o books by or at the discretion o the aculty.
George H. Dession Memorial () A bequest o Anna M. Dession in memory o her
husband, George H. Dession, LL.B. , a member o the aculty between and .
Elizabeth K. Dollard Fund () A gi rom Elizabeth K. Dollard, LL.B. , or the
purchase o books or aculty research.
Ralph Gregory Elliot Fund () A gi rom Ralph Gregory Elliot, B.A. , LL.B.
, or the purchase o books on American constitutional law and constitutional
history.
William Dean Embree Memorial () A gi in honor o William Dean Embree, LL.B.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Energy Law Fund () A gi rom an anonymous donor or the purchase o books
related to energy law in the western American states.
James E. English () Gis rom James E. English, M.A. Hon. .
Wilton H. Fair () A gi rom Wilton H. Fair, L.G. .
Edwin E. Ferguson Fund () A gi rom Edwin E. Ferguson, J.S.D. , or the
purchase o books or the library.
Robert B. Fiske Memorial () A gi in honor o Robert B. Fiske, LL.B. , rom
John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
The Macklin Fleming (B.A. 1934, LL.B. 1937) Fund () A gi rom Macklin Fleming,
LL.B. , to support Yale Law School’s Law Library. Income rom the endowment is
used to purchase books, new equipment, and technology, and to support personnel.
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Ford Motor Company () A gi or the acquisition o books or the oreign and
international collection in the law library.
The Milton R. Friedman LL.B. 1928 Real Property Fund () The real estate collec-
tion o the Yale Law School library is supported by this endowment in memory o Milton
R. Friedman, LL.B. , given by his amily in the year o the seventieth anniversary
o his graduation.
Charles E. Frohman Memorial () A gi rom an anonymous donor in memory
o Charles E. Frohman, LL.B. , or the purchase o books or the Ohio Collection.
Harold N. Gast Memorial () A bequest o Harold N. Gast, LL.B. .
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation () A gi rom the Horace W. Goldsmith
Foundation.
Max F. Goldstein Memorial () A gi in memory o Max F. Goldstein, LL.B. ,
rom Elliott Goldstein, LL.B. .
Arthur Goodhart Memorial () Gis rom Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Goodhart.
Jacob P. Goodhart Memorial () A gi in memory o Jacob P. Goodhart, LL.B. ,
rom Clara S. (Mrs. J. P.) Goodhart.
Oscar S. Gray Fund for Comparative Law Studies Library Acquisition () Estab-
lished by a gi rom Oscar S. Gray to create and maintain a Book Fund or Comparative
Law Studies. Yale will provide and ax to the materials acquired through this und
appropriately designed bookplates stating substantially: “Gi o Oscar S. Gray Fund or
Comparative Law Studies, Established by Oscar S. Gray, B.A. ’, J.D. ’.”
Ashbel G. Gulliver Memorial () A gi in honor o Proessor Ashbel G. Gulliver,
LL.B. , rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
William B. Gumbart Memorial () A gi in honor o William B. Gumbart, LL.B.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
W. Averell Harriman Fund () A gi rom W. Averell Harriman, B.A. , LL.D.
, or the purchase o books on the subject o international law.
Frederick C. Hicks () A bequest rom Frederick C. Hicks, M.A. Hon. .
Frederick C. Hicks Memorial () A gi in honor o Frederick C. Hicks, M.A. Hon.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
John A. Hoober () A gi rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Richard C. Hunt Memorial () A gi in memory o Richard C. Hunt, LL.B. ,
rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Mary E. Ives () A bequest rom Mary E. Ives.
Fleming James, Jr. Memorial Fund () A gi in honor o Fleming James Jr., B.A.
, LL.B. , rom riends and classmates.
Endowment Funds
Victor S. Johnson, Jr. Fund () A gi rom the V. S. Johnson Jr. Charitable Trust
(Victor S. Johnson Jr., J.D. ) or acquisitions.
Betty A. and David A. Jones Fund () A grant to the Law School or the support o
the law library; a gi rom David A. Jones, LL.B. , and Mrs. Jones.
J. M. Kaplan Memorial () A gi rom the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.; to be used or
the purchase o books on Latin American law.
Gertrude (Gigi) and Arthur Lazarus, Jr. Fund () Gis rom the law firm o
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson; amily and riends o Arthur Lazarus Jr., J.D.
, and Mrs. Lazarus; or the acquisition and preservation o materials on American
Indian law.
Mary Quan Lee Memorial Fund () A gi in memory o Mary Quan Lee, rom her
children, Carol F. Lee, J.D. , and Ronald D. Lee, J.D. .
James H. Lehmann () A gi in memory o James H. Lehmann, LL.B. , rom
Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, or new books or the Yale law library.
Jerome B. Lucke Fund () A gi rom Jerome B. Lucke, LL.B. , or examination
prizes, scholarships, or purchase o books or the law library.
Myres S. McDougal () A gi in honor o Myres S. McDougal, J.S.D. , rom
Victor S. Johnson Jr., LL.B. .
William Walter Meyer Fund () A bequest o William Walter Meyer, M.A. ,
LL.B. .
Justice Sherman Minton Library Fund () A gi in honor o Justice Sherman
Minton, LL.M. , rom Victor S. Johnson Jr., LL.B. .
Cyrus LaRue Munson Memorial () A gi in memory o Cyrus LaRue Munson,
LL.B. , rom his sons, Edgar Munson, B.A. , and George Sharp Munson, LL.B.
.
Arthur E. Palmer, Jr. Memorial () A gi in honor o Arthur E. Palmer Jr., LL.B.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Neil Peck and Thomas S. Nichols () An anonymous gi in honor o Neil Peck,
LL.B. , and Thomas S. Nichols, LL.B. , or the purchase o books or the energy
law collection.
Frederick L. Perry Memorial () A gi in memory o Frederick L. Perry, LL.B. ,
rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Edward J. Phelps Memorial () A gi in memory o Proessor Edward J. Phelps,
M.A. Hon. , rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Howard W. Rea Memorial () Gis in memory o Howard W. Rea, LL.B. , rom
his partners at Davis, Graham & Stubbs, and other riends, or the purchase o books
on tax law.
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A. Leo and Edna C. Ricci () A gi rom A. Leo Ricci, J.D. , or new books.
William C. Robinson Memorial () A gi in memory o William C. Robinson, M.A.
Hon. , rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
James Graon Rogers Memorial () A gi in honor o Proessor James Graon
Rogers, B.A. , M.A. Hon. , rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Frederick Calvin Russell Memorial () A gi rom Donald McPherson Jr., in
memory o his ather-in-law, Frederick Calvin Russell, LL.B. .
Jacob Schwolsky Memorial () A gi in memory o Jacob Schwolsky, LL.B. ,
rom the estate o Jacob Schwolsky, by his widow, Lyabelle Schwolsky.
Gordon E. Sherman () A bequest rom Gordon E. Sherman, Ph.B. .
Harry Shulman Library Fund () Gis in memory o Harry Shulman, M.A. Hon.
, member o the aculty between and , and dean o the Law School rom
to .
Earnest C. Simpson Memorial () A gi in memory o Earnest C. Simpson, LL.B.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Mollie (“Max”) Singerman Memorial () A gi in memory o Mollie Singerman
directed by Ernest Rubenstein, LL.B. , trustee o the Mollie Singerman testamentary
trust, or the purchase o books.
James R. Stewart Memorial () A gi in honor o James R. Stewart, LL.B. ,
rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Thomas W. Swan Memorial () A gi in honor o Dean Thomas W. Swan, B.A.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Ta Memorial () Gis in memory o Proessor William Howard Ta, B.A. .
Charles P. Ta () A gi in honor o Charles P. Ta, LL.B. , rom John A.
Hoober, LL.B. .
Charles Phelps Ta Memorial () A gi in memory o Charles Phelps Ta, LL.B.
, rom Peter R. Ta, LL.B. , or the purchase o books or the municipal law and
local government collection.
Charles J. Tanenbaum Fund () A gi rom Charles J. Tanenbaum, LL.B. , to
support exhibits rom the rare book and manuscript collection.
Auguste Rhu Taylor () A bequest rom Auguste Rhu Taylor, LL.B. , or books.
Julius J. Teller () A bequest rom Julius J. Teller, LL.B. .
Thomas D. Thacher Memorial () A gi in memory o Thomas D. Thacher, LL.D.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
William K. Townsend Memorial () A gi in memory o Proessor William K.
Townsend, B.A. , rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Endowment Funds
Joseph and Anne N. Trachtman Fund () A bequest o Joseph Trachtman, LL.B.
, and his wie, Anne N. Trachtman, to support library acquisitions in honor o Dean
Thomas W. Swan.
Harrison Freeman Turnbull Memorial () A gi in memory o Harrison Freeman
Turnbull, LL.B. , rom his partners at Wiggin & Dana.
Gordon Bradford Tweedy Memorial () A gi in memory o Gordon Bradord
Tweedy, LL.B. , rom Mary J. (Mrs. G. B.) Tweedy, or the purchase o books or the
international law collection.
Francis Wayland Memorial () A gi in memory o Dean Francis Wayland, M.A.
, rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. .
Albert S. Wheeler () A bequest rom Albert S. Wheeler.
John M. Woolsey () A gi rom John M. Woolsey, B.A. .
Yale Law School Fund Parents Program () Gis rom Yale Law School parents or
the purchase o student texts and reerence works or the library.
Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship () Established by ormer law clerks and
riends in memory o Robert P. Anderson, B.A. , LL.B. , Senior Judge o the
U.S. Court o Appeals or the Second Circuit. The purpose o the und is to provide or a
visiting ellow in the area o proessional responsibility, or in such other area as the Law
School might designate.
Timothy B. Atkeson Environmental Practitioner in Residence () Established
in honor o Timothy B. Atkeson, LL.B. , this program brings to the Law School
practitioners rom a variety o environmental law practice settings—including the
government, the private bar, science and engineering firms, and environmental and
international organizations—to lecture, teach seminars, and counsel students on career
opportunities.
Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights () Established
through the generous gis o numerous individuals and organizations to honor Robert
L. Bernstein, the ormer chairman, president, and chie executive ocer o Random
House, Inc., and the ounder and chairman o Human Rights Watch. The Bernstein
Fellowship is awarded annually to two or three Yale Law School graduates pursuing
projects devoted to the advancement o human rights around the world.
Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium () Established by a gi rom Mark S.
Campisano, J.D. , to support a colloquium to be administered through the Center
or the Study o Corporate Law.
Curtis-Wizner Fellowship Fund () Established by gis rom Yale Law School
alumni on celebrating Forty Years o Clinical Education at Yale Law School. The und
honors the program’s ounders, Dennis E. Curtis, LL.B. , Clinical Proessor Emeri-
tus o Law and Proessorial Lecturer in Law, and Stephen Wizner, William O. Douglas
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Clinical Proessor o Law and Supervising Attorney. To support the activities o the
ellowship.
Ralph Gregory Elliot First Amendment Lectureship () Funded by a gi rom
Ralph Gregory Elliot, B.A. , LL.B. , a practitioner and law school teacher in the
field o First Amendment law, to provide or a lecture or lectures, preerably on an annual
basis, on some aspect o the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Joseph Goldstein Fellowship () Established by a gi rom the Ruttenberg Family
to support a postgraduate ellowship at Yale Law School.
Heyman Federal Public Interest Fellowship Fund () Established by a gi rom the
Samuel J. and Ronnie F. Heyman Philanthropic Fund. To provide support or recent Yale
Law School graduates to work closely with high-level leaders in the ederal government
or one year, either through an existing position or through a “special assistantship.”
Judge Robert A. Katzmann Access to Justice Summer Public Interest Fellowships
(). Established by a gi rom the Leon Levy Foundation in honor o Judge Robert
A. Katzmann ’ to provide ellowships to law students choosing summer placements in
organizations committed to providing access to justice to underserved communities or
to preserving the rule o law, primarily ocused on the themes that have animated Chie
Judge Katzmann’s public service and scholarship.
The Alexander M. Kayne B.A. ’94, J.D. ’97 and Jody L. Yetzer J.D. ’97 Summer Public
Interest Fellowship Fund () Established by a gi rom Alexander M. Kayne and
Jody L. Yetzer to support first- and second-year law students participating in Yale Law
School’s Summer Public Interest Fellowship Program. Recipients will be known as
Kayne-Yetzer Summer Public Interest Fellows.
Arthur Liman Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Program () Established by a
gi rom Douglas Liman, in honor o Arthur L. Liman, LL.B. , to nurture the spirit
o public service and to support student summer employment.
Christopher Magorian Fund for Environmental Law and Policy () Established
by amily, classmates, riends, and the law firm or which he worked, in memory o
Christopher C. Magorian, J.D. . The und supports lectures, colloquia, and other
scholarly presentations in the field o environmental law and policy.
Amy Valor Meselson–Liman Fellowship Fund () Established by a gi rom
Matthew S. Meselson, Sc.D.H. , in memory o his daughter, Amy Valor Meselson,
J.D. , to provide ellowships or Yale Law School graduates working in the United
States on public interest legal issues such as welare rights; homelessness; racial profil-
ing; indigent criminal deense; criminal law enorcement reorm including policing,
courts, and prisons; immigration; workers’ rights; and juvenile justice.
Judge Jon O. Newman Lectureship () Established by ormer law clerks and riends
o Judge Jon O. Newman, LL.B. , on the occasion o his fiieth Yale Law School
reunion. The purpose o the und is to support an annual lecture in global justice, or
public international, human rights, or comparative law, by a distinguished individual
who is not a citizen o, and does not reside in, the United States.
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Robert H. Preiskel and Leon Silverman Program on the Practicing Lawyer and the
Public Interest () A und established by the law firm o Fried, Frank, Harris,
Shriver & Jacobson in honor o Robert H. Preiskel, LL.B. , and Leon Silverman,
LL.B. , to sponsor lectures and other events celebrating private lawyers’ contribu-
tions to the public interest.
John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fund for Corporate Law Studies () Estab-
lished in memory o John R. Raben, LL.B. , by a gi rom the law firm o Sullivan &
Cromwell and augmented by his riends to support the study and teaching o corporate
law-related issues. Provides a ellowship to a person with a mature and highly developed
skill pertinent to legal problems o the issuance, distribution, and trading o securities
or o accounting or business enterprises, and will bring to the Law School an individual
with the high qualities o intellect, integrity, and leadership exemplified by John R.
Raben.
Irving S. Ribico Emerging Scholars Fund () Established by a gi rom Belle
Ribico, wie o Irving S. Ribico, LL.B. , to support the teaching and research
activities associated with the Ribico Emerging Scholars Fellowship.
Sherrill Lectures () This und was established by a gi rom General Charles
Hitchcock Sherrill, B.A. , LL.B. . The income rom this und is made available
to provide lectures on international law and relations.
Storrs Lectures () Through the gi o the Misses Eliza T. and Mary A. Robinson
in memory o their great-uncle, the Honorable William L. Storrs, B.A. , at one time
Chie Justice o the Supreme Court o Errors o Connecticut and proessor in the Law
School, a und was established to provide or a course o lectures dealing with unda-
mental problems o law and jurisprudence. These lectures are given by an American or
oreign jurist or scholar who is not ordinarily a member o the regular aculty o the Law
School.
James A. Thomas Lectures () Established in honor o Dean James A. Thomas,
LL.B. , and his many years o service to the Law School, to provide or a lecture
by a scholar whose work addresses the concerns o communities or groups currently
marginalized within the legal academy or society at large.
Varet | Summer Public Interest Fellowship Fund—SPIF () Established by a gi
rom the Middle Road Foundation, in honor o Michael A. Varet, LL.B. , to support
the Law School’s acute need financial aid, as determined by the dean.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Corporate Law Roundtable Series at Yale Law School
() Established by a gi rom the law firm o Weil, Gotshal & Manges to support
roundtable discussions on various issues o corporate law.
Vivien Wei-Ying U Fund for Human Rights () Established by a gi rom Vivien
Wei-Ying and Hoi Sang U, B.A. , or the support o a Senior Fellow at the Schell
Center.
The T. Girard Wharton Summer Internship () Gi o the partners and riends
o T. Girard Wharton, LL.B. , income to provide students with summer work
opportunities in legal aid oces, legal assistance programs, and public interest law firms.
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Judge Ralph K. Winter Lectureship on Corporate Law and Governance Fund () To
support lectures on corporate law and governance and related topics, and two prizes: one
or the best student paper in law and economics and another or the best student paper
in corporate and securities law.
Payson R. Wol Lectureship in Law and Music () Given by G.T.R. & B. Foun-
dation and the Martin Gang Foundation in memory o Payson R. Wol, J.D. , a
member o the Los Angeles law firm o Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, and a defining
figure in the field o music and the law.
*Non-endowed prize
Neale M. Albert Fund () Established by gis rom clients in honor o Neale M.
Albert, LL.B. , or a prize awarded to the best student paper on the subject o art law,
as determined by the Law School aculty. Excess income rom the und shall be used to
support any activity at the Law School in the areas o intellectual property, artists’ rights,
or copyright laws.
Charles G. Albom Prize () Established by alumni and riends o Charles G. Albom,
LL.B. . To be awarded annually to a student who demonstrates excellence in the area
o judicial and/or administrative appellate advocacy in connection with a Law School
clinical program.
Thurman Arnold Appellate Competition Prize () Established by alumni and
riends o the School. To be awarded annually or the best student argument in advanced
Moot Court competition.
*Burton H. Brody Prize in Constitutional Law () A gi rom Burton H. Brody,
B.S. , J.D. , or the student who, in the estimation o the Law School, shall write
the best paper on a subject to be selected by the dean on the extent o the protection o
privacy aorded by the U.S. Constitution.
*Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition Prize () To be awarded annually to one or
two students who prepare the best paper(s) on the subject o copyright law.
*Benjamin N. Cardozo Prize () Gi rom an anonymous donor in honor o Justice
Cardozo, or the best brie submitted by a student in Moot Court.
John Fletcher Caskey Prize () John Fletcher Caskey, LL.B. . For the best
presentation o a case on final trial in the Thomas Swan Barristers’ Union.
The Joseph A. Chubb Competition Prize () Established by a gi rom Joseph A.
Chubb, B.A. , LL.B. . Two prizes to be awarded annually to individual students
or two-person teams or legal drasmanship, which shall be open to candidates or the
J.D. degree.
The Barry S. Cohen, J.D. 1950, Prize and Financial Aid Endowment () Established
by Barry S. Cohen, J.D. , or a prize to be awarded or the most meritorious writing
on a subject related to literature and the law, reflecting either upon the law in literature,
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the law as literature, the law o literature, or literature in the law. The und also provides
financial assistance to Yale Law School students and graduates including scholarships,
summer internships, and loan orgiveness.
Felix S. Cohen Prize () Gi in honor o Felix S. Cohen, ormer visiting lecturer in
law. For the best essay by a student or ellow on some subject relating to legal philosophy
with special reerence to Mr. Cohen’s main fields o proessional work: human rights,
jurisprudence, protection o the rights o Indians and aliens, and comparative ethical
systems and legal ideals. Excess income rom the und may be used to support other
legal philosophy purposes.
Edgar M. Cullen Prize () William B. Davenport, B.A. , in memory o Edgar M.
Cullen, ormerly Chie Justice o the Court o Appeals o New York. For an outstanding
paper written by a member o the first-year class.
*Michael Egger Prize () For the best student Note or Comment on current social
problems in The Yale Law Journal, on recommendation o the board o ocers.
*Thomas I. Emerson Prize () For a distinguished paper or project on a subject
related to legislation.
John Currier Gallagher Prize () Gi rom Mrs. Gallagher in memory o her
husband, John Currier Gallagher, Ph.B. , LL.B. , and later increased by a gi
rom her son, J. Roswell Gallagher, B.A. , M.D. . For the student showing most
proficiency in the presentation o a case on final trial in the Thomas Swan Barristers’
Union.
Ambrose Gherini Prize () Ambrose Gherini, M.A. and LL.B. . For the student
writing the best paper upon a subject o international law, either public or private. Excess
income rom the und may be used to support other international law purposes.
*Margaret Gruter Prize () For the student writing the best paper on how ethology,
biology, and related behavioral sciences may deepen our understanding o law.
Jerome Sayles Hess Prize for International Law () Established by a bequest o
Harriett Peloubet Hess, widow o Jerome Sayles Hess, B.A. , to be awarded annually
to a student who demonstrates excellence in the area o international law.
Marshall Jewell Prize () Estate o Marshall Jewell, M.A. Hon. , to capitalize
the prize ounded by him in . For a member o the second-year class who has written
an outstanding contribution to a Law School journal other than The Yale Law Journal.
Excess income rom the und may be used to support financial aid.
*Quintin Johnstone Prize in Real Property Law () Established by the CATIC
Foundation, to be awarded at Yale Law School annually to a second- or third-year
student in recognition o excellence in the area o real property law.
Florence M. Kelley ’37 Family Law Prize () Established in memory o New York
City judge Florence M. Kelley, a member o the Class o , by her husband, David
Worgan, to provide periodic awards to students who, in the judgment o the aculty,
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demonstrate exceptional interest or achievement in the area o amily law. Excess income
rom the und may be used to support other amily law purposes.
William T. Ketcham, Jr. Prize () Established by a bequest o William T. Ketcham
Jr., B.A. , LL.B. , to be used annually or a prize or such student scholarship in
the field o private international law as the dean in his sole discretion shall determine.
*Khosla Memorial Fund for Human Dignity () Established by Dinesh Khosla,
LL.M. , J.S.D. , to provide an annual award to a student at Yale Law School
who demonstrates an active engagement in advancing the values o human dignity in
the international arena.
Raphael Lemkin Prize () Awarded rom proceeds o the scholarship und
established in memory o the distinguished scholar and activist Raphael Lemkin, or
outstanding student papers in international human rights.
*Stephen J. Massey Prize () Established by gis rom classmates and riends in
memory o Stephen J. Massey, J.D. . To be awarded to the student who best exempli-
fies, in work on behal o clients and in other community service, the values o the Jerome
N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School.
Judge William E. Miller Prize () Gi rom Victor S. Johnson Jr., LL.B. , in
memory o William E. Miller, LL.B. , ormerly judge o the United States Sixth
Circuit Court o Appeals. For the student writing the best paper on a subject concerning
the Bill o Rights.
C. LaRue Munson Prize () Gi rom C. LaRue Munson, LL.B. . To be divided
equally between two students or excellence in the investigation, preparation, and (where
permitted under the Legal Internship Rule) presentation o civil, criminal, or administra-
tive law cases, under a law school clinical program. Excess income rom the und may be
used to support the general purposes o the Law School.
Joseph Parker Prize () Bequest o Eliza Townsend Parker o New Haven, in
memory o her ather. For the best paper on a subject connected with legal history or
Roman law.
Israel H. Peres Prize () Hardwig Peres in memory o his brother, Israel H. Peres,
B.A. , LL.B. , a chancellor o the Tenth Chancery Division o Tennessee. For the
best student contribution to The Yale Law Journal. I no award is made, income o und
is used or purchase o books or the law library.
Cliord L. Porter Prize () Cahill Gordon & Reindel in memory o Cliord L.
Porter. Awarded annually or outstanding student perormance in taxation. Excess
income rom the und may be used to support summer public interest ellowships.
Edward D. Robbins Memorial Prize () Mrs. Robbins in memory o her husband,
Edward D. Robbins, B.A. , LL.B. . For a member o the third-year class who
has written an outstanding contribution to a Law School journal other than The Yale
Law Journal.
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Benjamin Scharps Prize () Tessie K. Scharps in honor o her brother, Benjamin
Scharps, B.A. . For a member o the third-year class or the most meritorious essay or
research in one course on some legal subject designated by the aculty under prescribed
regulations.
*Potter Stewart Prize () Established by the riends o Justice Stewart upon his
retirement. Awarded each term to the student team that presents the best overall argu-
ment in the Moot Court trial argument. The prize is designed to recognize both oralists
and “on brie ” students or their cooperative eorts in researching and presenting
outstanding legal arguments.
*Harlan Fiske Stone Prize () Gi rom an anonymous donor in honor o Chie
Justice Stone. For the best oral argument by a student in Moot Court.
Colby Townsend Memorial Prize () Established by gis rom riends in memory
o Colby Townsend, B.A. , M.A. , LL.B. . For a member o the second-year
class or the best individual research done or academic credit, i such work is o su-
ficiently high quality to justiy the award.
William K. S. Wang Prize () A gi rom William K. S. Wang, J.D. , to recog-
nize superior perormance in the introductory course in corporate law.
Francis Wayland Prize () Gi rom Francis Wayland, M.A. Hon. , dean o the
Law School rom to . For the student showing greatest proficiency in preparing
and presenting a case in negotiation, arbitration, and litigation.
Judge Ralph K. Winter Prize for Law and Economics () For a prize or the best
student paper in law and economics.
Judge Ralph K. Winter Prize for Corporate Law () For a prize or the best student
paper in corporate and securities law.
Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression () Established by a gi rom
Floyd Abrams, LL.B. , to support the activities o the Institute.
Edward L. Barlow Law & Media Fund () Established by a gi rom Edward L.
Barlow, B.A. , LL.B. , to provide support or law and media-related program-
ming at Yale Law School.
Steven A. Barono Endowment () Established by a gi rom Steven A. Barono,
J.D. , to provide critical unding or the support o the Law School’s Leadership
Program and its priorities, as designated annually by the Law School dean.
Tom and Andi Bernstein Fund for Human Rights () Established by Tom
Bernstein, B.A. , J.D. , and his wie, Andi, to urther the study and advancement
o human rights scholarship and activism at Yale Law School.
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Ralph S. Brown Fund for Special Student Needs () A und supporting student
organizations pursuing new initiatives that reflect the interests o Ralph S. Brown, B.A.
, LL.B. , ormer Simeon E. Baldwin Proessor o Law. These interests might
include individual rights and liberties; intellectual property and the protection o ideas;
local government and community development; and the environment.
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP SPIF Fund () Established by the firm o Cahill
Gordon & Reindel LLP to support annual summer public interest ellowships (SPIF).
Guido and Steven G. Calabresi Constitutional Law Fund () Established by a gi
rom Steven G. Calabresi ’ B.A., ’ J.D., to support an annual event at the Law School
which celebrates “Constitution Day” (September th), in order to oster appreciation
or and understanding o the U.S. Constitution.
Michael S. and Alexa B. Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership Fund ()
Established by a gi rom Mr. Michael S. Chae, J.D. , and Ms. Alexa S. Bator Chae,
J.D. , to support the Michael S. and Alexa B. Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leader-
ship, which will provide educational and proessional training to students who wish to
work in the private sector.
The Francis Coker Fund () Established in memory o Francis Coker by gis o his
classmates and riends. To endow unds to provide salaries or teaching assistants in the
Law School’s first-year small-group program.
Jonathan E. Colby ’71 Fund for Globalization () Established by a gi rom
Jonathan E. Colby, J.D. , to support globalization initiatives at the Law School.
Arthur Bliss Dayton Fund () Bequest o Arthur Bliss Dayton, Ph.B. .
EMIKA Fund for Public Service Initiatives () Established by a gi rom Meridee
A. Moore, J.D. , to support public service initiatives at Yale Law School, including
Summer Public Interest Fellowships, postgraduate public interest ellowships, and pub-
lic service clinical opportunities, with a preerence or supporting students and projects
that relate to the intersection o social justice, law, and trade.
Daniel N. Epstein Aordable Housing Fund () Established by a gi rom Daniel
N. Epstein, J.D. , to promote the study o aordable housing law and policy, with
preerence or clinical, simulation, and transactional courses that ocus on community-
based housing and development, litigation, legislative advocacy or aordable housing,
and aordable housing financing.
Joseph M. Field Fund () A gi rom Joseph M. Field, LL.B. , to establish a
und to support social unctions within the Law School to promote greater social interac-
tions within the Law School community.
Garg Family Clinical Initiative Endowed Fund () Established by a gi rom Rajesh
K. Garg, J.D. , and Madhu Powar Garg, J.D. , to expand the impact o the Yale
Law School clinics or specific objectives beyond the current clinical scope as designated
annually by the Law School Dean.
Endowment Funds
Robert J. Giura, Jr. Fund for the Study of Corporate and Securities Law () Estab-
lished by Robert J. Giura Jr., J.D. , in honor o his th Reunion, to support the
study o corporate and securities law at Yale Law School.
Sol and Lillian Goldman Family, Advocacy for Children and Youth Clinic Fund ()
Established by a gi rom the Sol Goldman Charitable Trust, to support the activities
o the clinic.
Oscar S. Gray Fund () Established by a gi rom Sheila H. Gray or the benefit o
the Law School at the discretion o the Dean.
Joel I. Greenberg Residential Facilities Fund () Established by a gi rom Joel
I. Greenberg, J.D. , to support the new Law School residential space at Tower
Parkway. Annual income rom the und will support general maintenance, improve-
ments, and student lie in the building.
Arthur Groman Trial Advocacy Fund () Established by Arthur Groman, LL.B.
, and Occidental Petroleum, Inc., his client or over orty years, to enhance the teach-
ing o litigation skills at Yale Law School. The und supports distinguished practitioners
and judges in teaching and mentoring.
Lewis Gruber Memorial Fund () Bequest o Lewis Gruber.
Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights () Established by a gi
rom Patricia and Peter Gruber to support the Law School’s annual Global Constitution-
alism Seminar and to establish the Gruber Distinguished Global Justice and Women’s
Rights Lectures and the Gruber Global Justice and Women’s Rights Fellowships.
Peter Gruber Clinical Program Fund () Established by a gi rom the Peter and
Patricia Gruber Foundation to support the operations o the Peter Gruber Rule o Law
Clinic, which ocuses on maintaining U.S. rule o law and human rights commitments
in national security, antidiscrimination, climate change, and democracy promotion both
domestically and abroad through, among other things, litigation, policy advocacy, and
strategic planning.
Peter Gruber Dean’s Discretionary Fund () Established by a gi rom the Peter
and Patricia Gruber Foundation to be used at the discretion o the Dean o the Law
School to support programming at the Law School that encourages students and aculty
to actively engage in the pursuit o social justice, in urtherance o the commitment and
legacy o Peter Gruber to the protection and advancement o the rule o law domestically
and abroad.
Georey Gund Program in Legal Writing () Established by a gi rom Georey
Gund, LL.B. , to support a program in legal writing.
The Herbert J. Hansell International Law Fund () Established by a gi rom
Herbert J. Hansell, LL.B. , to promote understanding o and innovative approaches
to legal issues o global importance with the intent o creating new generations o
international lawyers by, among other activities, supporting student opportunities or
hands-on engagement in public international law; bringing the world o international
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law and oreign relations to Yale; strengthening aculty scholarship on international
law, oreign aairs, and national security law; and disseminating solutions to global
legal challenges to policy makers and media. The und supports teaching, scholarship,
research, experiential learning opportunities, ellowships, and programs in the area o
international law, oreign aairs, and national security law.
Heineman-Russell Family Foundation YLS Leadership Program Fund () Estab-
lished by a gi rom the Heineman-Russell Family Foundation to support the Law
School’s Leadership Program.
Howard M. Holtzmann Endowment Fund for International Arbitration and Dispute
Resolution () Established by Howard M. Holtzmann, J.D. , to support research
and study o arbitration, conciliation, and other means or resolving disputes involving
international, commercial, or public international law issues.
Samuel and Anna Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic () Gi o the Samuel and Anna
Jacobs Foundation to support the work o the clinic.
Abdallah S. Kamel Endowment for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization ()
Established by a gi rom Abdallah S. Kamel to support activities that oster deeper
understanding o Islamic law and civilization at the Law School, including lectures,
travel, research ellowships or scholars in residence at the Law School, visiting proes-
sorships or distinguished scholars teaching a course or courses relating to Islamic law
and civilization at the Law School, student ellowships or advanced study, and related
expenses associated with activities supported by the und.
Harvey L. Karp Student Initiative Fund () An endowment established by Harvey
L. Karp, LL.B. , to support imaginative student organization activities.
The Moses Harry Katcher Fund for Litigation Training () Given by Gerald D.
Katcher ’, a banker, in memory o his ather, a noted trial lawyer, to support instruction
in trial skills and substantive courses in which litigation issues figure prominently.
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Discretionary Fund () A gi in honor o the Honor-
able Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, LL.B. , proessor o law, attorney general o the
United States, undersecretary o state o the United States, and senior vice-president,
law and external relations, o the International Business Machines Corporation, rom
the International Business Machines Corporation and numerous individuals, to be used
or accumulated and used, at the discretion o the dean, or the benefit o the Law School
and o its aculty, students, library, and physical plant.
Kirkland & Ellis Fund for the Study of Private Law () Established by gis rom
Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Yale Law School alumni, and other members o the firm, to support
the study o private law.
Knight Law and Media Scholars Program () Established by a grant rom the John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation to train legal journalists and media lawyers.
Kwang Lim Koh and Hesung Chun Koh Family Fund at Yale Law School () Estab-
lished by gis rom riends and colleagues, in honor o Kwang Lim Koh and Hesung
Endowment Funds
Chun Koh. The und supports research by members o the Yale Law School community
on Korean, East Asian, and international law, and provides financial assistance to Yale
Law School students, graduates, and visiting scholars, including but not limited to
scholarships, summer internships, and loan orgiveness. Preerence shall be given first
to Korean, and then to other East Asian or Asian American students and summer public
interest ellows or COAP recipients working at organizations or on research topics or
legal projects that promote East-West or international understanding.
Hillard Kreimer Legal Aid Fund () Established by Seth Kreimer, B.A. , J.D.
, and Sarah Kreimer, B.A. , in memory o their ather, Hillard Kreimer, LL.B.
, to provide stipends or students working with a law school clinical program during
the summer ollowing their first year.
Robert Todd Lang ’47 Fund for the Study of Corporate and Commercial Law
() Established by Robert Todd Lang, augmented by riends, classmates, and gradu-
ates o Yale Law School interested in corporate and commercial law.
Law and Media Fund () Established to train legal journalists and media lawyers.
Selma M. Levine Memorial Fund () Gi o partners, classmates, amily, and riends
o Selma M. Levine ’, in addition to her own bequest and a separate gi by Louis F.
Oberdorer ’. For support o students and attorneys holding ellowships in the Legal
Services Organization or other clinical programs at the Law School.
Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law Fund () Established by a gi rom
the Liman Foundation to support the activities and administration o the Arthur Liman
Public Interest Program.
Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellowship and Fund () Established by the riends
o Arthur L. Liman, LL.B. , in recognition o his dedication to public service in the
urtherance o justice. At least one Liman Fellowship is awarded annually, enabling its
holder to work ull-time or a year in a law-related endeavor designed to urther the
public interest. All graduates o Yale Law School are eligible. The Liman Public Interest
Fund supports selected non-Fellowship projects undertaken by qualiying organizations.
Allard K. Lowenstein Fund () Established by gis honoring Allard K. Lowenstein,
LL.B. , rom his amily, aculty, colleagues, and riends, to support the work o
the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Project and the Allard K.
Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic.
Carol and Gene Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership Fund () Established
by a gi rom Eugene A. Ludwig, J.D. , to be used to address the needs o the Carol
and Gene Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership at Yale Law School, a program o
ocused proessional and ethical training or Law School students who wish to work in
the public sector, including, but not limited to providing support or clinical and course
work; a speaker series; recruiting, networking, and other extracurricular opportunities;
and operational and personnel support.
Ludwig Community and Economic Development Program () Established by a gi
rom Eugene Ludwig, J.D. , and his wie, Carol, to support the work o the clinic.
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Joanne and Jared Mandell Leadership Fund at Yale Law School () Established by
a gi rom Paul S. Mandell, J.D. , to support the operations o the Entrepreneurship
and Innovation Clinic at Yale Law School. I the Law School determines that it no longer
wishes to operate the clinic, the expendable income rom the und shall be used to sup-
port the operations o the Leadership Program at Yale Law School.
Mary A. McCarthy Memorial Fund () An endowment established by amily,
riends, and colleagues to honor the memory o Mary Abigail McCarthy, clinical proes-
sor o law, by improving the quality o legal services aorded to the underprivileged
through enhanced student clinical experiences.
Charles S. Mechem, Jr. ’55 Fund for Student Activities () Established by a gi
rom Charles S. Mechem Jr., LL.B. , to provide support or student activities and
organizations within Yale Law School, with a preerence or those activities and organiza-
tions dealing with sports law and entertainment law.
David F. Menschel Fund for Criminal Justice () Established by a gi rom Robert
B. Menschel, in honor o his son David F. Menschel, J.D. , to be used on a flexible
basis or Summer Public Interest Fellowships (SPIFs), Yale Public Interest Fellowships,
and the Career Options Assistance Program (COAP).
Millstone Fund for Criminal Justice Reform () Established by a gi rom David
Millstone, B.A. , and Jennier Millstone, B.A. , to be used on a flexible basis
rom year to year to support one or more o the ollowing: Summer Public Interest
ellowships (SPIFs), postgraduate public interest ellowships, the Career Options
Assistance Program (COAP).
Alvin S. Moody Memorial Fund () Gi rom Alvin S. Moody, LL.B. , in
memory o his ather, Alvin S. Moody. The income to be used to support student summer
employment in government.
Lizabeth Moody and Alan Buchmann Fund () Established by a gi rom Lizabeth
Moody, LL.B. , or the study o law and religion.
Robert F. Puzniak Scholarship () Annual gi rom Robert F. Puzniak to assist
students who are employed by a U.S. Attorney’s oce during the summer recess in
enhancing their legal skills.
Alfred M. Rankin Jr. Endowment () Established by a gi rom Alred M. Rankin
Jr., J.D. , to support the Leadership Program in the Law School.
Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund () Established by a bequest o Oscar M. Ruebhausen,
LL.B. , to support projects or programs that will increase student access to intel-
lectual stimulation and social perceptions beyond standard law school programs, and to
support innovative legal or social policy research.
Zelia and Oscar Ruebhausen/Debevoise & Plimpton Fund () Established by
a bequest o Oscar M. Ruebhausen, LL.B. , and augmented by members o the
Debevoise & Plimpton firm, honoring Oscar’s wie, Zelia, to support student intellectual
activities, social motivation, or creative interests, or to support productive interaction
among the students and the Yale Law School aculty.
Endowment Funds
Charles Hitchcock Sherrill Fund () Gi rom John A. Hoober, LL.B. , in honor
o Charles H. Sherrill, B.A. .
S. Kinnie Smith, Jr. Fund for Law and the Environment () Established by a gi
rom S. Kinnie Smith Jr., B.A. , to support programs at Yale Law School that relate
to the intersection o law and the environment.
Solomon Fund for Health Law and Policy () Established by a gi rom Howard
Solomon, LL.B. , to support the operations o the Solomon Center or Health Law
and Policy at Yale Law School including, but not limited to, research and scholarship on
health law, government policy, and the business o medicine and the health care industry;
academic, clinical, and experiential learning courses, mentoring, internships, and ellow-
ships that prepare Yale Law students to pursue business, governmental, and academic
careers in health law and policy; and conerences, roundtables, and symposiums devoted
to health law and policy issues.
Larry and Joyce Stupski Public Interest Support Fund () Created by a gi rom
Larry Stupski, J.D. , and Joyce Stupski, husband and wie, to provide endowed
support o entrepreneurial public interest activities o Yale Law School students and
graduates. Preerence is given to nonadversarial activities that promote public education.
Thomas Thacher Fund () Gi in honor o Thomas Thacher, B.A. , rom his
son, Judge Thomas D. Thacher, B.A. , Sarah McC. G. Thacher, and daughter-in-
law, Eunice B. B. Thacher.
Joseph C. Tsai Law School Facilities Fund () Established by Joseph C. Tsai, B.A.
, J.D. , and his wie, Clara, to support expenses associated with operating,
maintaining, and renovating Yale Law School’s Baker Hall.
Joseph C. Tsai Program for Leadership at Yale Law School Fund () Established by
a gi rom Joseph C. Tsai, B.A. , J.D. , and his wie, Clara, to provide ongoing
unding or components o the Joseph C. Tsai Program or Leadership, which include,
but are not limited to, stang and other operational costs associated with capstone
classes, sustained academic programming, a mentorship program, executive education
opportunities, a leadership scholars program, an entrepreneurship and innovation clinic,
and a und or social entrepreneurship.
Mark David Turkel Memorial Fund () Established in memory o Mark David
Turkel, J.D. , by his amily and riends. To supplement the salary o a student work-
ing or a public interest organization during the summer.
Morris Tyler Moot Court Fund () An endowment established by members o the
amily o Morris Tyler, LL.B. , a leading lawyer and public citizen o New Haven, to
und the Yale Law School Moot Court program in perpetuity.
Paul J. and Aurelia M. Urban Fund () Established by a gi rom Allaire Urban
Karzon, J.D. , to support programs, aculty, students, or alumni who are actively
engaged in addressing significant issues o women’s rights and women’s equality on a
national or global scale.
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Varet YLS Safety Net Endowed Fund () Established by a gi rom the Middle
Road Foundation, in honor o Michael A. Varet, LL.B. , to support the Yale Law
School’s Saety Net Fund, an emergency support und or Yale Law School students.
Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance () Established by a gi rom
Craig Wasserman, B.A. , M.A. , J.D. , in honor o his ather, to support
a series o corporate law workshops administered through the Center or the Study o
Corporate Law at Yale Law School.
Craig Wasserman ’86/Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Corporate Law Fund ()
Established by the law firm o Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and the Yale partners o
the firm in memory o their colleague, Craig Wasserman ’, one o the nation’s leading
corporate attorneys and an original member o the Board o Advisors o the Center or
the Study o Corporate Law at Yale Law School, to support the alumni breakast program
in New York, which eatures panel discussions on current topics in business law by
members o the bar, business and investment communities, public ocials, and aculty.
The Yale Law Journal Fund () Contributions rom editors and ormer editors or
the benefit o The Yale Law Journal.
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completed requisite training in approved institutions. Doctor o Medicine (M.D.). Post-
graduate study in the basic sciences and clinical subjects. Five-year combined program
leading to Doctor o Medicine and Master o Health Science (M.D./M.H.S.). Combined
program with the Graduate School o Arts and Sciences leading to Doctor o Medicine
and Doctor o Philosophy (M.D./Ph.D.). Master o Medical Science (M.M.Sc.) rom the
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Divinity School Est. . Courses or college graduates. Master o Divinity (M.Div.),
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School of Music Est. . Graduate proessional studies in perormance and composi-
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School of the Environment Est. . Courses or college graduates. Master o Forestry
(M.F.), Master o Forest Science (M.F.S.), Master o Environmental Science (M.E.Sc.),
Master o Environmental Management (M.E.M.). Doctor o Philosophy (Ph.D.)
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School of Public Health Est. . Courses or college graduates. Master o Public
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Hall
100 Church
Street South
Amistad
Street
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10
459
55
341-47
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House
O
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Theater
35
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Rosenfeld
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202
Connecticut
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Center
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College
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135
153
60
40
300
100
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270
132
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Congress
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238
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96
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Smilow
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Hospital
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100
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Goe
350
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459
55
341-47
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House
O
Broadway
Theater
35
Broadway
Music
Library
Rosenfeld
Hall
202
Connecticut
Mental Health
Center
34
Children’s
Hospital:
West Pavilion
Yale-New Haven
Hospital:
East Pavilion
Hospital:
South
Pavilion
ESH
ICDU
NIHB
CSC
Cancer
Center
Harkness
Auditorium
LEPH
Medical
Library
Sterling Hall
of Medicine
NSB
Hunter
WWW
CB
BB
BML
Lauder
LMP
LLCI
MRC/
PET
FMP
Dana
Clinic
Howard Ave.
Garage
Yale
Physicians
Building
TE
TMP
Primary
Care Ctr
464 & 430
FMB
LSOG
Anlyan
Center
SPP
College
Place
127
135
153
60
40
300
100
College
Pierce
Laboratory
270
132
Yale-New Haven
Psychiatric
Hospital
Congress
Place
BCMM
Hope
St. Thomas
More Chapel
Golden
Center
Afro-American
Cultural Center
211
2 Church
Street
South
Miller
Hall
Loria
Center
70
Sterling
Law
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Kroon
Hall
SW Service
Node
204
238
1201
1221
Greenberg
Conference
Center
Rosenkranz
Hall
Pauli
Murray
Benjamin
Franklin
96
25
Science
Park
28
SPPC
Smilow
Cancer
Hospital
Air Rights
Parking Facility
111
100
Dixwell
Go
e
350
272
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Science
Building
Tsai
CITY
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