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Yale Law School
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Established 1843
Type Private
Postgraduates 700
Location New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Dean Harold Koh
Website www.law.yale.edu
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The Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and several legal research centers.

The Yale Law School is widely considered to be America's leading center for the study of law: the institution has been ranked the best law school in the United States by U.S. News and World Report since the magazine began ranking them in 1987. [1] Former President William Howard Taft was a professor of constitutional law there from 1913 until he resigned to become Chief Justice of the United States in 1921. Presidents Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton studied there later in the century, and the law school's library has been memorialized as the meeting place of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Yale Law School enrolls about 180 new students a year, one of the smallest numbers among U.S. law schools, and its 7.5-student-to-faculty ratio is the lowest of all law schools in the U.S. Its small class size and high prestige combine to make its admissions process highly selective — numerically speaking, it is the most competitive law school in the U.S. More of its admitted students decide to attend (i.e. yield) than those of Stanford and Harvard.

A high GPA, high LSAT score, and very strong non-quantitative credentials are typically prerequisites to admission. 50% of the class that entered in 2005 had a GPA above 3.87 (out of 4.0) and an LSAT score above 171 (out of 180 possible points) or 99th percentile. It is known as a popular landing pad for Rhodes Scholars upon their return from Oxford University. Yale Law is also the only top-tier school in which the faculty votes directly on the admission of each member of the incoming class. [citation needed]

The institution is known for its scholarly orientation; a relatively large number of its graduates (4%) choose careers in academia immediately after graduation. Yale's curriculum is generally less focused on corporate and commercial law than that of other leading schools, such as Columbia, University of Chicago, Harvard and Stanford. Some 38% of its graduates take judicial clerkships, more than those of any other school.

Yale Law School does not have a traditional grading system, a consequence of student unrest in the late 1960s. Instead, it grades first-semester first-year students on a simple Credit/No Credit system. For their remaining two and a half years, students are graded on an Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail system. Similarly, the school does not rank its students. It is also notable for having only a single semester of required classes, instead of the full year most U.S. schools require.

In recent years, some students have called for the school to make diversity a higher priority when hiring faculty. The school has one tenured female professor of color and no Hispanic professors.

Students publish nine law journals that, unlike those at most other schools, mostly accept student editors without a competition. The only exception is YLS's flagship journal, The Yale Law Journal, which holds an admissions competition each spring.

The YLS law library, Lillian Goldman Law Library, contains around 800,000 volumes. The school's classrooms were redesigned in 1998 as part of a larger renovation begun in 1995.


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