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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

Bruce Swartz

Visiting Lecturer in Law and Peter Gruber Distinguished Senior Rule of Law Fellow
Courses Taught
Rule of Law Clinic
Bruce Swartz smiles for the camera.

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

Beatrice A. Walton

Visiting Lecturer in Law
Courses Taught
International Adjudication and Advanced Topics in International Law

A. J. Wasserstein

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

Stephen Wertheim

Visiting Lecturer in Law
Courses Taught
American Global Power Since the Cold War
Stephen Wertheim

The clinics at YLS offer students incomparable experiences in representation of poor and marginalized individuals and communities, real-world engagement in complex fields of law, and the development of strategic judgment critical to effective lawyering.