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
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
News
Yale Law Faculty Reflect on First Step Act
Faculty reflect on Congress passing criminal justice reforms through The First Step Act.Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Monday, January 21, 2019
In The Press
MLK breakfast speaker focuses on police relations
The State Journal-Register
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory Tracey L. Meares gave the keynote address at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in Springfield, IL.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Friday, January 18, 2019
Friday, November 30, 2018
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
1:57:41
Monday, February 26, 2018
53:40
Thursday, March 7, 2019
In The Press
A prison program in Connecticut seeks to find out what happens when prisoners are treated as victims—A Commentary by Miriam Gohara
The Conversation
Miriam Gohara is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
In The Press
When Police Use Too Much Force—A Commentary by Stephen L. Carter ’79
Stephen L. Carter ’79 is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
In The Press
Hepatitis C Fight Hinges on Prisons
US News and World Report
Gregg Gonsalves, associate professor and codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) is quoted in US News & World Report about the rights of prisoners to receive treatment for Hepatitis C.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
In The Press
David Udell Dishes On Growing Access To Justice Research
Law360
Scholarship by Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law Heather Gerken is mentioned in a Law360 interview with David Udell, executive director of the National Center for Access to Justice.
Monday, January 21, 2019
In The Press
MLK breakfast speaker focuses on police relations
The State Journal-Register
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory Tracey L. Meares gave the keynote address at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in Springfield, IL.
Monday, October 29, 2018
In The Press
Misdemeanorland: Social Control and New York City's Lower-Level Courts
Center for Court Innovation
Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08 is interviewed about her book Misdemeanorland.
Alumni Profiles
Emma Alpert
Current Senior Staff Attorney and 2009-2010 YLS Public Interest Fellow, Brooklyn Defender Services Family Defense Practice, Brooklyn, NY
I just walked onto this campus and had this feeling that it’s such an intellectually interesting, creative place.”
Janine Balekdjian
Class of 2017