Our Vision
The Law and Racial Justice Center brings together New Haveners, Yale students, staff, and faculty, local government officials, and local and national experts to imagine and implement projects that advance racial justice. We bridge theory and practice to build more just communities, with a particular focus on New Haven.
We aspire to work together in community, collaborate across disciplines, and create opportunities for student-centered experiential learning. Doing that, we believe, will produce life-affirming solutions to our most pressing challenges of systemic racism.
Our Projects
Individual Mobility and Community Wealth Building
The Law School Access Program (A2LS) is an innovative law school pipeline program for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority students from New Haven and Connecticut. Applications for our fourth cohort are now closed.
New Visions for Public Safety/Community Well-Being
The mechanisms we currently rely on for public safety—police, prosecution, and prisons—cause enormous harm. But what will keep us safe? The Law and Racial Justice Center engages this question through projects that promote government- and community-led responses that are non-punitive and strengthen communal ties. Our work is currently focused on restorative justice practices and community support for neighbors who are confined in jails or prisons or returning home after incarceration.
Our Sponsor Information
Over the years, the Law and Racial Justice Center has been fortunate to receive donations for our Access to Law School program, our Books to Prisons Project, and other RJC endeavors from a wide range of donors. This support makes it possible for us to provide funding so our fellows can address the financial barriers both to law school and those that arise in law school. To promote literacy in prisons and jails through our Books to Prisons Project, donations enable us to continue our work. The Law and Justice Center runs entirely on donations, and they are greatly appreciated.
If you have questions about the program or becoming a sponsor, please email us at lawaccess@yale.edu.
Our Contact Information
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