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, February 26, 2020
News
Liman Center Cited in Federal Report on Women in Prison
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Issues Landmark Report on Women in Prison, Cites Testimony from Liman Center and Professor Judith ResnikTuesday, April 07, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
In The Press
Protecting Prisoners in Pandemics Is a Constitutional Must — A Commentary by Judith Resnik
Bloomberg Law
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Thursday, March 05, 2020
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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Monday, March 30, 2020
In The Press
Protecting Prisoners in Pandemics Is a Constitutional Must — A Commentary by Judith Resnik
Bloomberg Law
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
In The Press
Advocates Urge Prisoner Releases Before Virus Strikes
CT News Junkie
The Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic is mentioned in a CT News Junkie article about groups that are advocating for the release of prisoners in an effort to avoid the spread of the COVID-19 virus within Connecticut prisons.
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.
Alumni Profiles
Emma Alpert
Current Senior Staff Attorney and 2009-2010 YLS Public Interest Fellow, Brooklyn Defender Services Family Defense Practice, Brooklyn, NY
Today is a wonderful time to be blessed with legal training and to be able to go out and take on the enormous challenges of a difficult world — with an aspiration to lead tempered by humility at the complexity, difficulty, discipline, and self-sacrifice inherent in the task.”
Ben W. Heineman, Jr.
Class of 1971