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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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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

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

Kirby Tyrrell

Clinical Lecturer in Law, Associate Research Scholar in Law, and Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow
Courses Taught
Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic
Kirby Tyrrell

Michael VanderHeijden

Associate Director for Scholarly and Research Services and Lecturer in Legal Research
Courses Taught
Corporate Legal Research
Research Methods in Judicial History
Research Methods in Environmental Law
Michael VanderHeijden

A. J. Wasserstein

Visiting Lecturer in Law
Courses Taught
Entrepreneurship through Acquisition and Leading Small and Medium Enterprises
A. J. Wasserstein

Garrett West

Associate Professor of Law
Courses Taught
Constitutional Torts
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Yale is the one place where going to law school doesn’t mean sitting on the sidelines; it means making headlines.