Who Uses COAP?

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.