How We Are Involved
About the Program
Yale Law School offers a rich academic experience studying criminal law through many different lenses. In addition to a variety of courses, students can collaborate with faculty on empirical research, work on reform efforts, and gain hands-on experience through work with clinics and student organizations.
Faculty
Course Offerings
Yale Law Report Feature, 2016
Centers & Programs
Two vibrant centers at the Law School create a myriad of ways for students to get involved in criminal justice reform work that is having a profound impact across the country.
Justice Collaboratory
The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law
Experiential Learning
Several clinics and student organizations play an important role in introducing students to the state and federal criminal justice systems and affording the students an opportunity to represent individual clients and pursue systemic reforms.
Beshar/Lehner Gender Violence Clinic
Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic
Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic
Wednesday, June 03, 2020
News
Q&A with the Justice Collaboratory on Police Reform and Procedural Justice
Members of the Justice Collaboratory provide constructive steps forward in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
In The Press
Obama-Era Policing Proposals Find Some Success, but Ambitious Ideas Are Slow-Moving
Wall Street Journal
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the recommendations made by President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
In The Press
As COVID-19 Spreads In Prisons, Lockdowns Spark Fear Of More Solitary Confinement
National Public Radio
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in a National Public Radio report on how measures against COVID-19 within prisons are leading to an increase in solitary confinement.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020
In The Press
Reform Expert Approved For Police Commission
New Haven Independent
The New Haven Independent reports that Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory Tracey Meares has been appointed to the New Haven Board of Police Commissioners.
Monday, July 6, 2020
In The Press
Police Training, Satellite Crowding, The Glass Cliff
BYU Radio / Top of Mind
Caroline Sarnoff, Executive Director of The Justice Collaboratory speaks with BYU Radio podcast Top of Mind with Julie Rose about procedural justice training for police officers.
Monday, July 6, 2020
In The Press
Into Resuming Federal Executions
NBC News / Into America Podcast
Clinical Associate Professor of Law Miriam Gohara was a guest on the NBC News “Into America” podcast where she discussed the death penalty.
Thursday, July 2, 2020
In The Press
COVID-19 No Excuse for Ignoring Rights of the Incarcerated: Paper
The Crime Report
The Crime Report discusses a paper authored by Athur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik about how judges have – and should continue – to impact prisoners’ rights.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
In The Press
How Overpoliced Communities Become Politically Engaged
Niskanen Center Podcast
Justice Collaboratory member Professor Vesla Weaver (Johns Hopkins University) speaks with The Niskanen Center's podcast about The Portals Project, which finds that people in overpoliced neighborhoods have complicated attitudes toward police.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
In The Press
Think racial segregation is over? Here’s how the police still enforce it.
The Washington Post
Associate Professor of Law Monica C. Bell speaks with The Washington Post about her new paper “Anti-Segregation Policing” and discusses some of the ways in which policing helps perpetuate residential segregation.
Alumni Profiles
Nola Heller
Chief of the Violent and Organized Crime Unit at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York
Yale Law School is about as perfect as a true and serious interdisciplinary hub for the law-related social sciences and humanities as one could possibly imagine.”
Professor Taisu Zhang
Class of 2008