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Yale Law School is one of the world’s premier law schools, offering an unmatched environment of excellence, a flourishing intellectual life, and an abundance of opportunities to engage with the law.

With almost 200 courses taught each year by world-renowned faculty and a thriving network of legal clinics and intellectual centers, Yale Law School provides rich and challenging ways to gain the skills necessary to make an impact in the world at large.

Explore all that Yale Law School has to offer by browsing our areas of interest, degree programs, list of clinics, and student and alumni profiles below.

Lillian Goldman Law Library


Located in the Sterling Law Building, The Lillian Goldman Law Library has nearly one million print volumes as well as unparalleled access to domestic, foreign, and international law databases.

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The Law School is renowned as a center for scholarship in constitutional law, and prominent scholars are well represented on the School’s faculty.

View Constitutional Law
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The Law School offers a strong curriculum in corporate and commercial law as well as joint and doctoral degree programs 

View Corporate & Commercial Law
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Yale Law School offers a rich academic experience studying criminal law through many different lenses.

View Criminal Justice
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Outstanding faculty, new curricular offerings, and strong partnerships are part of our expanded environmental law and policy program.

View Environmental Law
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A diverse program of human rights activities that serve students and scholars at Yale and contribute to the development of human rights.

View Human Rights Law
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The Law School’s longstanding international tradition occupies a central place in its intellectual life.

View International Law
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Information Society Project (ISP) is an intellectual center addressing the implications of the Internet and new technologies.

View IT & Media Law
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The Law School is at the heart of a movement to expand the once-narrow field of law and economics.

View Law & Economics

Examining how law and policy affect individual and public health, the health care industry, and health governance.

View Law & Health
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Our Law Teaching Program provides current students and post-graduate fellows with training and information about careers in academia.

View Law Teaching
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The history of law offers indispensable insights into the character of our legal systems.

View Legal History

Yale Law School has a strong tradition of service in the public interest. Most YLS students perform public service activities during their time here.

View Public Interest Law

The Tsai Leadership Program


The Tsai Leadership Program empowers a new generation of mission-driven, multidimensional leaders who will champion excellence, effectiveness, and ethics as they drive the world forward.

These are the best law students in the world. They start full of promise and then they end full of accomplishment. It’s a thrilling thing.”


Harold Hongju Koh

Sterling Professor of International Law and Former Dean