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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

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Gideon Yaffe

Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence
Courses Taught
Criminal Law and Administration
Philosophy of Law
Addiction and the Law: Perspectives from Philosophy, Economics, and Neuroscience
Professor Gideon Yaffe

Today is a wonderful time to be blessed with legal training and to be able to go out and take on the enormous challenges of a difficult world — with an aspiration to lead tempered by humility at the complexity, difficulty, discipline, and self-sacrifice inherent in the task.