Yale Law School
| Yale Law School | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1824 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | New Haven (Connecticut) |
| country | United States |
| management | Heather K. Gerken |
| Students | 630 |
| Employee | 283 |
| including professors | 249 (full and part time) |
| Foundation assets | US $ 1.2 billion (or Yale University : US $ 30.3 billion) |
| Website | www.law.yale.edu |
The Yale Law School (often also Yale Law or YLS ) is one of the graduate schools in the US Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut) . Founded in 1824, it is considered the premier law school in the United States and one of the most prestigious in the world. It has been ranked # 1 in the US News and World Report college ranking every year since the magazine was first published in 1987.
Yale Law School offers JD , LL.M. , MSL and several doctoral programs. It has a small number of students and is the most selective law school in the USA with an admission rate of 6.9%.
history
Yale Law School's roots go back to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries . At that time, he was trained as a lawyer under the guidance of lawyers in law firms . In New Haven , attorney Seth Staples ran a law firm that had a large library and attracted numerous aspirants . The law firm developed into the New Haven Law School by 1810, which was then under the patronage of Samuel Hitchcock , a former student of Staples. In the 1820s, the New Haven Law School finally affiliated with Yale University, which had existed since 1701.
As early as the last decades of the 19th century, the Yale Law School recognized two characteristics that still prevail today: First, it is characterized by a small number of students in order to ensure a personal relationship between the faculty and the students. Second, the Law School pursues an interdisciplinary approach to teaching that incorporates the findings of other academic research directions. Yale Law School is widely known for its research-oriented education.
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Yale Law School is based in the Sterling Law Building, which is located in the middle of the Yale University campus. The building was designed by architect James Gamble Roger and built in 1931. Its architectural style can - like many US university buildings - be assigned to neo-Gothic . The building houses classrooms, offices, a dining room and the law library.
Magazines
Yale Law School publishes numerous student-edited journals. Its flagship is the Yale Law Journal , first published in 1891 and one of the most cited legal journals in the United States. There are also eight other topic-specific journals.
Alumni
Yale Law School has produced many well-known alumni , including two Presidents of the United States, Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton, and five current US Senators, including Michael Bennet , Richard Blumenthal , Cory Booker , Chris Coons and Josh Hawley . With Karl Carstens , fifth Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany , José P. Laurel and Salvador Laurel (both former Presidents of the Philippines ) and Peter Mutharika (incumbent President of Malawi ) other (former) heads of state from all over the world are among the alumni.
The Law School has also appointed eleven judges to the United States Supreme Court , including four of the nine currently in office ( Samuel Alito , Brett Kavanaugh , Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas ). With Stephan Harbarth also an alumnus is a judge and president of the (German) Federal Constitutional Court . There are also numerous other high-ranking American and foreign lawyers as well as managing directors of large companies.
literature
- Anthony T. Kronman: History of the Yale Law School: The Tercentennial Lectures . Yale University Press , New Haven (Connecticut) 2004.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d ABA , Yale Law School (accessed May 7, 2020)
- ↑ Investment return , Yale News (accessed May 7, 2020)
- ↑ Crimson tide Boston.com (accessed May 16, 2019)
- ↑ The Real Top Ranked Law Schools (accessed May 16, 2019)
- ↑ Dean Of Most Prestigious Law School In America To Step Down (accessed May 16, 2019)
- ↑ Yale Law School TLS Wiki (accessed May 16, 2019)
- ↑ Yale Law has beaten Harvard for the past 23 years in US News rankings , Business Insider (accessed May 16, 2019)
- ↑ Best Law Schools 2020 , US News and World Report (accessed May 16, 2019)
- ↑ 2020 Raw Data Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate (Low to High) , Internet Legal Research Group (accessed May 7, 2020)
- ↑ a b c Our History , Yale Law School (accessed May 16, 2019)
- ↑ Sterling Law Building , Yale Law School (accessed May 16, 2019)
- ^ Law Journal Rankings Bryce Clayton Newell (accessed May 16, 2019)
- ↑ Student Journals & Publications Yale Law School (accessed May 16, 2019)
Remarks
- ↑ A year has around 200 students in the JD and 23 LL.M. students. For comparison: Harvard Law School accepts almost 600 JD and 180 LL.M. students in one year.