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Yale Law School Center for Private Law

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The Yale Law School Center for Private Law promotes teaching and research in contracts (including commercial law, corporate finance, bankruptcy, and arbitration), property (including intellectual property), and torts at Yale Law School and in the broader legal community. The Center supports scholars, students, and practicing lawyers in all these areas and seeks, especially, to sponsor serious and sustained intellectual engagements among groups who share interests but do not often interact.

The Center is directed by Daniel Markovits, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, together with Jeff Gordon, Yale’s Fellow in Private Law.

The Seminar in Private Law, which meets each spring term, brings speakers from academia and practice to the Law School to present papers organized around a common theme that crosses disciplinary and doctrinal boundaries.

Programs for students emphasize the practical and intellectual depth of private law and the many perspectives that might help to understand it. The Center, together with the Law School’s Career Development Office, sponsors speakers and mentors-in-residence to provide students with examples of career paths in private law. A series of informal student lunches provides students with further information and advice on how best to prepare for careers in private law. The Center also publicizes the Law School’s private law offerings, helping to arrange them into organized courses of study to better prepare YLS students for practice.

The Center convenes additional events—lectures, roundtables, panels, and symposia—to provide further opportunities for addressing prominent and pressing issues that concern private law, as these arise.

 

Contact Us

For questions about the Center, write to us at private.law@yale.edu.

Seminar in Private Law

Seminar in Private Law

Each spring term, the Seminar in Private Law brings speakers from academia and practice to Yale Law School to present papers addressing a common theme.

Private Law Courses

Private Law Courses

The Law School offers many courses addressing private law.

Private Law Events

Private Law Events

The center hosts symposia and other events throughout the year.

Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

Many of the Law School’s faculty members are devoted to scholarship and teaching in the private law arena.

Private Law Center NEws

Private Law News

Read recent news from the Private Law Center.