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Yale Law School
Yale Law School Coat of Arms
Established: 1843
Type: Private
Postgraduates: 700
Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Dean: Harold Koh
Website: www.law.yale.edu
The Sterling Law Building
The Sterling Law Building
Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building
Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point Year 1843 ( MDCCCXLIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Unlike Public universities, private universities generally do not receive direct operational funding from national or subnational governments and thus rely on private See also Postgraduate Training in Education Postgraduate education (synonymous in North America with graduate education, and sometimes described Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Biography A Korean-American native of Boston, he graduated in 1971 from the New Haven prep school Hopkins, graduated A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Sterling Law Building is the building of Yale Law School. It is located at 127 Wall Street New Haven Connecticut, close to the downtown Sterling Law Building is the building of Yale Law School. It is located at 127 Wall Street New Haven Connecticut, close to the downtown A law school (also known as a school of law or college of law) is an institution specializing in Legal education. Established in 1843, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L. degrees in law. Year 1843 ( MDCCCXLIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Juris Doctor (abbreviated JD or JD, from the Latin, Teacher of Law) is a first professional graduate degree and Professional The Master of Laws is an advanced Academic degree, or research degree and is commonly abbreviated LL Doctor of Laws ( Latin: Legum Doctor, LLD) is a Doctorate -level Academic degree in Law. A Master of Studies in Law ( MSL) is a Master's degree offered by some Law schools to students who wish to study the law but do not want to become attorneys It also hosts visiting scholars and several legal research centers. Yale has been designated the #1 law school in the nation by U.S. News and World Report in every year that the magazine has published law school rankings. USNews & World Report is an influential weekly American Newsmagazine published in Washington D The school's prestige and small size make its admissions process the most selective of any United States law school.

Among other luminaries, former U.S. President William Howard Taft was a professor of constitutional law at YLS from 1913 until he resigned to become Chief Justice of the United States in 1921. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by William Howard Taft (September 15 1857 – March 8 1930 was an American politician, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice Constitutional law is the study of foundational or basic Laws of nation states and other political organizations Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the judicial branch of the government of the United States, and presides over the U Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Presidents Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton studied there later in the century, and the law school's library has been memorialized as the meeting place of Bill and fellow student Hillary Clinton. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26 1947 is the junior United States Senator from Former Democratic Vice Presidential nominees Sargent Shriver and Joseph Lieberman are also graduates. Robert Sargent Shriver Jr (born November 9 1915 is an American Democratic Politician and Activist. Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24 1942 is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. Current U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are alumni of the school, as is current Attorney General Michael Mukasey. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American Jurist. He has been serving as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Samuel Anthony Alito Jr (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice (see) concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement Michael Bernard Mukasey (mjuːˈkeɪzi(born July 28, 1941)is an American lawyer currently the 81st Attorney General of the United States, and

The YLS law library, Lillian Goldman Law Library, contains over 800,000 volumes. A law library is a Library designed to assist Law students Attorneys Judges and their Law clerks in finding the legal resources necessary The Lillian Goldman Law Library is the Law library of Yale Law School. The school's classrooms were redesigned in 1998 as part of a larger renovation begun in 1995.

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Culture

The institution is known for its scholarly orientation; a relatively large number of its graduates (14%) choose careers in academia within five years of graduation, while a relatively low number (49%) choose to work in law firms. Its 7. 5-student-to-faculty ratio is the lowest among U. S. law schools.

Yale Law School does not have a traditional grading system, a consequence of student unrest in the late 1960s. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 [1] Instead, it grades first-semester first-year students on a simple Credit/No Credit system. For their remaining two and a half years, students are graded on an Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail system. Similarly, the school does not officially rank its students. It is also notable for having only a single semester of required classes, instead of the full year most U. S. schools require. Unusually, Yale Law allows first-year students to represent clients through one of its numerous clinics; other law schools typically offer this opportunity only to second- and third-year students.

Students publish nine law journals that, unlike those at most other schools, mostly accept student editors without a competition. A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues normally published by an organization of students at a Law school or through a Bar association. The only exception is YLS's flagship journal, The Yale Law Journal, which holds a two-part admissions competition each spring, consisting of a four or five-hour "bluebooking exam," followed by a traditional writing competition. The Yale Law Journal is a student-run journal of legal scholarship affiliated to the Yale Law School. The Bluebook A Uniform System of Citation, a Style guide, prescribes the most widely used Legal citation system in the United States. Although the Journal identifies a target maximum number of members to accept each year, it is not a firm number.

History

Yale Law School traces its origins to the earliest days of the 19th century when law was learned by clerking as an apprentice in a lawyer’s office. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Apprenticeship is a system of Training a new generation of practitioners of a skill The first law schools, including the one that became Yale, developed out of this apprenticeship system and grew up inside law offices. The future Yale Law School formed in the office of New Haven lawyer Seth Staples, who owned an exceptional library (an attraction for students at a time when law books were scarce) and began training apprentices in the early 1800s.

By the 1810s, his law office had a full-fledged law school. Samuel Hitchcock, one of Staples’ former students, became a partner at the office and later, the proprietor of the New Haven Law School.

The New Haven Law School affiliated gradually with Yale from the mid-1820s to the mid-1840s. Law students began receiving Yale degrees in 1843. Year 1843 ( MDCCCXLIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common David Daggett, a former U. David Daggett ( December 31, 1764 - April 12, 1851) was a US senator, Mayor of New Haven Connecticut, S. senator from Connecticut, joined Hitchcock as co-proprietor of the school in 1824. Year 1824 ( MDCCCXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year In 1826, Yale named Daggett to be professor of law in Yale College, where he lectured to undergraduates on public law and government. For the game see 1826 (board game. Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887

Yale Law School remained fragile for decades. At the death of Samuel Hitchcock in 1845 and again upon the death of his successor, Henry Dutton, in 1869, the University came near to closing the School. Year 1845 ( MDCCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Henry Dutton ( February 12, 1796 - April 12, 1869) was an American politician and former Governor of Connecticut. Year 1869 ( MDCCCLXIX) is a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year

The revival of Yale Law School after 1869 was led by its first full-time dean, Francis Wayland, who helped the School establish its philanthropic base. Year 1869 ( MDCCCLXIX) is a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Biography Francis Wayland's father was an Englishman of the same name who was also a Baptist pastor It was during this time that the modern law library was organized. It was also during this period that The Yale Law Journal was started and Yale’s pioneering efforts in graduate programs in law began; the degree of Master of Laws was offered for the first time in 1876. The Yale Law Journal is a student-run journal of legal scholarship affiliated to the Yale Law School. The Master of Laws is an advanced Academic degree, or research degree and is commonly abbreviated LL Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year

In the last decades of the 19th century, Yale began to articulate for its Law School two traits that would come to be hallmarks. First, it would be small and humane, bucking the trend toward large law-school enrollments and impersonal faculty-student relations. Second, it would take an interdisciplinary approach to teaching the law, first bringing professors from other University departments to teach in the Law School, and later in the 20th century, pioneering the appointment to the law faculty of professors ranging from economics to psychiatry. Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Psychiatry is a medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat Mental disorders in Humans Psychiatric This led Yale Law School away from the preoccupation with private law that then typified American legal education, and toward serious engagement with public and international law.

After 1900, Yale Law School began to shape legal scholarship. Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar In the 1930s, Yale Law School contributed to the movement known as legal realism, which has reshaped the way American lawyers understand the function of legal rules and the work of courts and judges. Legal realism is a family of theories about the nature of Law developed in the first half of the 20th century in the United States ( American Legal Realism The realists directed attention to factors not captured in the rules, ranging from the attitudes of judges and jurors to the nuances of the facts of particular cases. Under the influence of realism, American legal doctrine has become less conceptual and more empirical. Under Dean Charles Clark (1929-1939), the School built a faculty that included such legendary figures as Thurman Arnold, Edwin Borchard, future U. Charles Clark may refer to Charles Clark (governor (1810–1877 Governor of Mississippi during the American Civil War Charles Clark (judge Thurman Wesley Arnold ( June 2, 1891 – November 7, 1969) was an iconoclastic Washington D Edwin Borchard ( October 17, 1884 &ndash July 22, 1951) was a U S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Jerome Frank, Underhill Moore, Walton Hamilton, and Wesley Sturges. William Orville Douglas ( October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. Jerome Frank may refer to Jerome Frank (lawyer, American lawyer and legal philosopher Jerome Frank (psychiatrist, American psychiatrist Clark was the moving figure during these years in crafting the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the foundation of modern American procedure. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP are rules governing Civil procedure in United States district (federal courts that is court procedures for Civil

In the 1950s and 1960s, the School became renowned as a center of constitutional law, taxation, commercial law, international law, antitrust law and economics. Constitutional law is the study of foundational or basic Laws of nation states and other political organizations Commercial law (sometimes known as business law) is the body of Law which governs Business and commercial transactions International law is the term commonly used for referring to the system of implicit and explicit agreements that bind together nation-states in adherence to recognized values and standards Law and Economics, or economic analysis of law is an approach to Legal theory that applies methods of Economics to law In recent decades, the pace of curricular innovation has, if 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 of clinical programs. Corporate finance is an area of Finance dealing with the financial decisions Corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions Environmental law is a complex and interlocking body of Statutes, Common law, Treaties, conventions Regulations and policies which very Gender studies is a field of Interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of Gender. Human rights refers to the "basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled Legal history or the History of Law is the study of how law has evolved and why it changed

The law school's Dean, Harold Koh, has made human rights a focus of the law school's work, building on a tradition that has developed over the past two decades. Biography A Korean-American native of Boston, he graduated in 1971 from the New Haven prep school Hopkins, graduated Human rights refers to the "basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled Robert Bernstein, the founder of Human Rights Watch, is affiliated with the law school in several ways, and the organization's current executive director Kenneth Roth is an alum. Robert Bernstein may refer to Robert Bernstein (comics, a comic book writer Robert L Human Rights Watch is a United States -based international Non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on Human rights. Yale has taken a lead in defending detainees at Guantanamo Bay through its 9/11 clinic. The Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp is a controversial United States Detention center operated by Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002 in Guantanamo

Admissions

Yale Law School enrolls under 200 new students a year, one of the smallest numbers among U. S. law schools. Its small class size and prestige combine to make its admissions process very selective. It is considered the most competitive law school in the U. S. More of its admitted students decide to attend (i. e. , yield) than those of Stanford and Harvard. Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto California, United States, in Silicon Valley Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University. Half of the class that entered in 2006 had a GPA above 3. 91 (out of 4. 0) and an LSAT score above 173 (out of 180 possible points) or 99th percentile. The Law School Admission Test ( LSAT) is an examination administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC that attempts to measure logical and verbal reasoning [2]

After an initial round of screening by the admissions department, approximately 25% of applications are independently evaluated by three different faculty members. Each application is scored from 0-4 at the discretion of the reader. All applicants with a perfect 12 (i. e. , a 4 from all three faculty members) are admitted, upon which they are immediately notified by the school. There are also 50-80 outstanding students admitted each year without going through this review process. [3][4]

Deans of Yale Law School

Yale Law School library
Yale Law School library
  1. 1873—1903 Francis Wayland
  2. 1903—1916 Henry Wade Rogers
  3. 1916—1927 Thomas Walter Swan
  4. 1927—1929 Robert Maynard Hutchins
  5. 1929—1939 Charles Edward Clark
  6. 1940—1946 Ashbel Green Gulliver
  7. 1946—1954 Wesley Alba Sturges
  8. 1954—1955 Harry Shulman
  9. 1955—1965 Eugene Victor Rostow
  10. 1965—1970 Louis Heilprin Pollak
  11. 1970—1975 Abraham Samuel Goldstein
  12. 1975—1985 Harry Hillel Wellington
  13. 1985—1994 Guido Calabresi
  14. 1994—2004 Anthony Townsend Kronman
  15. 2004—present Harold Hongju Koh

Current prominent faculty

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Yale Law School alumni

Among Yale Law School's most notable living alumni are former U. Owen M Fiss is a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. Biography Born in the Bronx N Dan M Kahan is the Elizabeth K Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School. The Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic provides legal representation to a range of organizations and individuals in the Supreme Court of the United States. Biography A Korean-American native of Boston, he graduated in 1971 from the New Haven prep school Hopkins, graduated In Academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit or over a specific area of concern or both Jonathan R Macey is Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale Law School. Jed Rubenfeld is the Robert R Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. The Interpretation of Murder, published in 2006, is Jed Rubenfeld 's first novel Judge Ralph K Winter Jr (born 1935 in Waterbury Connecticut) is a Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Michael Wishnie is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Kenji Yoshino is a Legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. This is a list of the graduates of Yale Law School. For a list of graduates of Yale University as a whole see List of Yale University people. S. President Bill Clinton, Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, former U.N. ambassador John R. Bolton, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joseph Lieberman and Arlen Specter, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Newark mayor Cory Booker, law professor Alan Dershowitz, televangelist Pat Robertson, actor Ben Stein, and Attorney General Michael Mukasey. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Samuel Anthony Alito Jr (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American Jurist. He has been serving as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United The United States Ambassador to the United Nations (full title Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American public servant who has served in several Republican presidential administrations The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26 1947 is the junior United States Senator from Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24 1942 is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. Arlen Specter (born February 12 1930) is the senior United States Senator from Pennsylvania and a member of the Republican Party The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Adviser (abbreviated NSA, or sometimes ANSA Stephen John Hadley (born February 13, 1947, in Toledo Ohio) is the current (21st U Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is the current Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American Lawyer, Jurist, and political commentator. Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22 1930 is a controversial Televangelist from the United States. Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25 1944) is an American attorney political figure and Entertainment personality who in his early career Michael Bernard Mukasey (mjuːˈkeɪzi(born July 28, 1941)is an American lawyer currently the 81st Attorney General of the United States, and

Notes

  1. ^ Kalman, Laura, Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2005)
  2. ^ LSAC 2008 Edition Data, Yale Law School. Retrieved on 2007-06-06. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1508 - Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year
  3. ^ The Official YLS Admissions Blog. Retrieved on 2008-02-13. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed
  4. ^ Law School Description - LSAC Official Guide to ABA-approved Law Schools. Retrieved on 2008-02-13. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed

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