Who Uses COAP?


From 1989 through 2022, more than 2,000 Yale Law School graduates have participated in COAP, receiving over $58 million in benefits.

YLS alumni in COAP have recently worked for (among many others):

  • The U.S. State Department
  • The ACLU
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Private firms in Washington, D.C., Jackson, Mississippi, and Seattle, Washington
  • The Texas Defender Service
  • The New York State Attorney General
  • The NAACP Legal Defense Fund

 

Note: Deferred students should refer to COAP terms specific to the class year to which they were originally admitted.

These are the best law students in the world. They start full of promise and then they end full of accomplishment. It’s a thrilling thing.”


Harold Hongju Koh

Sterling Professor of International Law and Former Dean