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
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.
Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic
Juvenile Justice Clinic
Temporary Restraining Order Project
Prosecution Externship
Thursday, July 26, 2018
News
Associate Professor Orihuela Cited by Georgia’s Top Court
The Georgia Supreme Court cited the work of Clinical Associate Professor of Law Marisol Orihuela ’08 in a ruling on June 18, 2018, which held that a defendant’s due process rights were violated by automatic detention in his case.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
In The Press
Public Thinker: Issa Kohler-Hausmann on Misdemeanors and Mass Incarceration
Public Books
Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08 is interviewed about her latest book Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing.
Monday, August 27, 2018
In The Press
How Criminal Justice Reform Can Move Forward in the Trump Era
The Crime Report
Scholarship by Clinical Associate Professor of Law Miriam Gohara is the subject of an article about criminal justice reform in the Trump era.
Monday, August 06, 2018
In The Press
‘Social Control’ And ‘Broken Windows’
RNN/ Richard French Live
Associate Professor of Law Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08 was interviewed about her new book, Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing.
Friday, June 1, 2018
Event
Solitary Confinement, Circa 2018: A National Picture on the Number of People in Isolation in US Prisons
2:30PM
Yale Law School Room 128
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
1:57:41
Monday, February 26, 2018
53:40
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
In The Press
Public Thinker: Issa Kohler-Hausmann on Misdemeanors and Mass Incarceration
Public Books
Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08 is interviewed about her latest book Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing.
Monday, August 27, 2018
In The Press
How Criminal Justice Reform Can Move Forward in the Trump Era
The Crime Report
Scholarship by Clinical Associate Professor of Law Miriam Gohara is the subject of an article about criminal justice reform in the Trump era.
Monday, August 6, 2018
In The Press
‘Social Control’ And ‘Broken Windows’
RNN/ Richard French Live
Associate Professor of Law Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08 was interviewed about her new book, Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
In The Press
The ‘Social Control’ Elements of New York’s Criminal Justice System
The New York Times
A review of Associate Professor of Law Issa Kohler-Hausmann's ’08 book Misdemeanorland.
Monday, July 16, 2018
In The Press
Defendants on Probation Can Be Jailed for Drug Relapse, Court Rules
The New York Times
Clinical Professor of Law Fiona Doherty ’99 is quoted in an article about the impact of probation on substance abusers.
Sunday, July 15, 2018
In The Press
Editorial: Connecticut should end practice of ‘prison gerrymandering’
New Haven Register
Ashley Hall ’19 is quoted in an editorial in support of a lawsuit filed last month by the NAACP and the Rule of Law Clinic charging the Connecticut with prison gerrymandering.
Alumni Profiles
I say to you, my classmates, we have much to do. Yale gave us the tools to do it with. We owe it to the rest of the country, because of our success, to share what we know and what we can give to the future…”
President Bill Clinton
Class of 1973