Baala Shakya, Contributing Photographer This August, 25 students from various backgrounds were welcomed into the second cohort of Yale Law School’s Launchpad Scholars, a program committed to ...

Heather Gerken, Yale Law School’s first woman dean, will step down as dean of Yale Law School in early August, two years before her second five-year term is set to expire, a spokesperson for the ...

Gerken has been the dean of the Yale Law School since 2017, and is currently serving her second term, which was scheduled to conclude in 2027. She was the first woman to serve as the law school's ...

Yale Law School was No. 2 in 2023 with 24.11% of its JDs landing federal clerkships, followed by Stanford Law School at 20.77%. The University of Notre Dame Law School was next with 18.18% of ...

Yale Law School was next with a little over 26% of its 2024 graduates landing federal clerkships, followed by Harvard Law School at just over 18% and Stanford Law School at 17.59%.

When J.D. Vance applied to law school, he viewed it as a pathway out of his chaotic upbringing in working-class Middletown, Ohio. Then he won a spot at his dream school. Yale Law not only accepted ...