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Our Faculty

Members of the Yale Law School faculty include some of the nation’s most prominent scholars in every area of law, along with leading experts in economics, philosophy, and history

Faculty Type

Susan A. Thornton

Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term) and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center
Courses Taught
Contemporary China Research Seminar
U.S.-China Diplomacy: Policy, Law, Strategy
Susan A. Thornton

Gerald Torres

Professor of Environmental Justice and Professor of Law
Courses Taught
Saginaw-Chippewa Disenrollment Clinic
Federal Indian Law
Gerald Torres

Tom R. Tyler

Macklin Fleming Professor Emeritus of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory
Courses Taught
Criminal Justice Reform
Empirical Research Seminar
Social Science and Institutional Design
Topics in Law and Psychology
Tom Tyler

Our goal is to train lawyers to tackle the toughest problems while maintaining their hope that change is possible. That kind of hope requires courage, imagination, and the ability to recognize the best in others. We aim to cultivate all three.