Ways to Engage
Our Clinics
Yale Law School offers more than 30 clinics that provide students with hands-on, practical experience in the law on a diverse range of subject matters.
Simulation
Yale Law School offers a suite of innovative simulation courses based on real-world case studies.
Centers and Workshops
Yale Law School enhances the intellectual life of its academic community by sponsoring a variety of centers, programs, and workshops, inspired by the interests of its faculty and students.
Friday, July 01, 2022

News
Q&A: Professor Gohara on Reforms in Sentencing and Parole
Clinical Professor of Law Miriam Gohara discusses her work, including the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Friday, July 8, 2022

Veterans Legal Services Clinic client Ivan Ocon returned to the U.S. after being deported to Mexico in 2016. With the clinic's help, he became a U.S. citizen on July 7.
Friday, July 1, 2022

Clinical Professor Miriam Gohara received tenure this month and leads the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic. She teaches and writes about capital and non-capital sentencing, incarceration, and the historical and social forces implicated in culpability and punishment. Gohara recently discussed her work.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

The Department of State in Washington, D.C. The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic is challenging the department's slow responses to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
In The Press
Feds: National Guard Members on State Duty Can Join Unions
Associated Press
Rekha Kennedy ’23 is quoted, and the Veterans Legal Services Clinic mentioned, in report about a decision that gives active National Guard members the right to unionize.
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
In The Press
“Deny Until They Die”: Some Veterans Say VA Wrongly Rejects Claims for Illnesses They Blame on Camp Lejeune’s Contaminated Water
CBS News
William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Michael Wishnie ’93 is quoted in a report about a 2016 lawsuit filed by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic on behalf of veterans seeking information on the doctors who reviewed disability claims related to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune.
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
In The Press
‘Bad Paper’ Discharges of Some Marines and Sailors to Get Second Look
Military.com
Plaintiffs in a case represented in part by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic reached a settlement in the nationwide class action brought against the Navy and Marine Corps by Afghanistan veteran Tyson Manker and the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
In The Press
Georgia Election Workers Suing Conspiracy Website over ‘Campaign of Lies’
NBC News
The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic is mentioned in a story about a defamation lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
In The Press
Lawsuit Against Air Force Aims To Overturn Less-Than-Honorable Discharges Among Those With Trauma
WSHU
Alexis Kallen ’23 comments on a proposed nationwide class action suit filed by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic.
Monday, September 13, 2021
In The Press
Madison Police Step up Fight To Withhold Barbara Hamburg Murder Investigation Files From HBO’s ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ Filmmakers
The Hartford Courant
Clinical Lecturer David Schulz ’78 discusses efforts by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic to gain public access to police records from a 2010 murder in Madison, Connecticut.
Student Profile Videos

Xiangnong (George) Wang
A student perspective on public interest law, the MFIA Clinic, and the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association at Yale Law School.

Leanne Gale
A student perspective on international human rights law, immigrant rights, and the supportive community at Yale Law School.