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Today eighty percent of YLS students take advantage of clinical offerings at some point during their time at Yale, working beside faculty members and supervising attorneys on real cases. YLS now has a robust clinical program, with students working in...
As the mortgage crisis deepens, legal assistance attorneys and Law School clinics fight to change big bank policy and Connecticut law In a brick building on New Haven’s State Street, a small group of lawyers with a continually shrinking budget and staff...
The Evolving Digital Landscape of YLS As technology has changed in the past thirty years, Yale Law School has changed along with it. Not only have the systems changed (so long, typewriters, card catalogs, and registration punch cards) but so has the nature...
View additional photos . Read this article via PDF . "When these 232 individuals have completed their academic requirements, they will be, quite simply, the finest new law graduates on the planet this year." Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh's pride...
YLS Students Tackle Immigrant Rights Cases in Danbury and New Haven Juan Barrera stands in front of a cluster of microphones, his eyes downcast. He sways from side to side just slightly as he speaks in Spanish. With television cameras rolling and the...
Each summer, Yale Law School students—most of whom have just finished their first year of classes—travel around the world to spend three months merging their new academic interests and legal theory with hands-on practice. Although many YLS students have...
View additional photos . Read this story via PDF . Chris Mandernach ’08 drove a ship into a mine-filled river, at night, during a sandstorm, on purpose. Jon “Tyler” McGaughey ’09 led the battalion that seized one of Saddam Hussein’s Presidential Palaces...
View additional photos . Read this article via PDF . It was a Memorial Day that will hold special memories for Yale Law School’s Class of 2007. Before a gathering of about 1200 family, friends and faculty members in the sun-filled Law School Courtyard...