Who Uses COAP?
Who Uses COAP?
From 1989 through 2020, more than 1,500 Yale Law School graduates have participated in COAP, receiving over $54 million in benefits. In 2020 alone, COAP disbursed $5.4 million in benefits to over 400 graduates.
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.
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Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law