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Our Faculty

Members of the Yale Law School faculty include some of the nation’s most prominent scholars in every area of law, along with leading experts in economics, philosophy, and history

Faculty Type

Gideon Yaffe

Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence
Courses Taught
Criminal Law and Administration
Philosophy of Law
Addiction and the Law: Perspectives from Philosophy, Economics, and Neuroscience
Professor Gideon Yaffe

The clinics at YLS offer students incomparable experiences in representation of poor and marginalized individuals and communities, real-world engagement in complex fields of law, and the development of strategic judgment critical to effective lawyering.