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, January 15, 2020
News
Liman Center and LSO Announce Inaugural Curtis-Liman Clinical Fellow
The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School are pleased to announce that Alex Wang has been selected to be the first Curtis-Liman Clinical Fellow.Monday, December 02, 2019
In The Press
This Man Should Not Be Executed — A Commentary by Lincoln Caplan
The American Scholar
Lincoln Caplan is Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Friday, October 11, 2019
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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Saturday, December 14, 2019
In The Press
10 years. 179 arrests. No white defendants. DEA tactics face scrutiny in New York.
Washington Post
Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08 is quoted in a Washington Post article about how DEA tactics may target minorities.
Monday, December 2, 2019
In The Press
This Man Should Not Be Executed — A Commentary by Lincoln Caplan
The American Scholar
Lincoln Caplan is Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.
Friday, November 15, 2019
In The Press
Sense of ‘hopelessness’ rises among Alabama prisoners as new rules, leadership changes, limit opportunities for parole
The Appeal
Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization Fiona Doherty ’99 is quoted in an article in The Appeal about new rules around parole in Alabama.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
In The Press
The Supreme Court Needs to Change the Way It Thinks About Justice for Children — A Commentary by Gideon Yaffe
Slate
Gideon Yaffe is the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
In The Press
Community Policing
WSHU
WSHU covers a study of New Haven's community policing policy, a field experiment funded in part by the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
In The Press
Second Circuit Green-Lights NAACP Lawsuit Over ‘Prisoner Gerrymandering’
Law.com
Law.com reports that a lawsuit filed by the NAACP over prison gerrymandering in Connecticut can move ahead. The plaintiffs are represented in part by the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic. Clinic director and William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Michael Wishnie ’93 and Alaa Chaker ’20 are mentioned.
Alumni Profiles
In their first semester, all entering students are required to take four courses, one of which must be taken in a small group of 15 or 16 students. Immediately every student in the class has the opportunity to develop a close relationship with one of their four teachers.”
Anthony Kronman
Class of 1975, Sterling Professor of Law and Former Dean