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Law Teaching

Yale Law School is the country’s leading institution for producing legal academics. Our Law Teaching Program provides J.D. students, graduate students and post-graduate fellows with training and information about careers in academia.

Law Teaching Program

Taisu Zhang teaching

Preparing for a Career in Law Teaching

There is no precise combination of factors that guarantees success on the law teaching market. Explore pathways to teaching careers.

Preparing for a Career in Law Teaching

Careers in Academia Overview

Current Candidates

Detailed information for Yale Law School students currently pursuing a career in Law Teaching.

Current Candidates

Most people think there is a giant gap between doing academic work and doing real practice work. This law school has relentlessly refused to accept that gap. And you see it every day.”


Heather Gerken

Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law