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
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
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
Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic
Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
News
Letter from 64 Yale Faculty Urges CT Governor to Sign Bill Restricting Solitary
On June 15, 2021, 64 Yale University faculty sent a letter to Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont urging him to sign Senate Bill 1059 into law.
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
In The Press
‘My Concern Is Precedent’: Mixed Responses to DOC Promise to End Solitary Confinement
Boston Globe
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik comments in a news report on a move by Massachusetts to end the use of solitary confinement. The report cites research by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Tuesday, May 04, 2021
In The Press
The Case For Moving Beyond Probation, And How To Do It — A Commentary by Fiona Doherty ’99
The Appeal
Fiona Doherty is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
A protest in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, three days after the killing of George Floyd.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Monday, April 12, 2021
Friday, April 9, 2021
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Monday, March 1, 2021
4:19
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
59:57
Friday, July 16, 2021
In The Press
Police Officers Treat Black and White Men Differently. You Can Hear It in Their Tone of Voice
Los Angeles Times
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor Tracey L. Meares comments on a study showing differences in how police talk to Black and white drivers.
Thursday, July 15, 2021
In The Press
James Forman Jr. on The Drug War in a Black Community
Psychoactive
J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law James Forman Jr. ’92 discusses on a podcast his book Locking Up Our Own and his experience as a public defender in Washington, D.C. in the 1990s.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
In The Press
‘My Concern Is Precedent’: Mixed Responses to DOC Promise to End Solitary Confinement
Boston Globe
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik comments in a news report on a move by Massachusetts to end the use of solitary confinement. The report cites research by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
In The Press
Hate-Crime Laws Don’t Work as Their Supporters Intended
The Atlantic
Research by Macklin Fleming Professor of Law Tom R. Tyler and the Justice Collaboratory are cited.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
In The Press
The History And Cycle Of Police Violence In America
GBH
Professor of Law Elizabeth Hinton discusses her new book America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.
Sunday, May 30, 2021
In The Press
How Qualified Immunity Would Have Protected the Tulsa Mob — A Commentary by Stephen L. Carter ’79
Bloomberg
Stephen L. Carter ’79 is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
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
It’s incredibly important to defend the rule of law. But it’s also incredibly important that we think beyond the rule of law and how are we going to empower our local communities to ensure that that vision is what our government and our elected representatives are working towards each and every single day.”
Sameer Jaywant
Class of 2018