Yale Law School
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Coat of arms of the School
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| Parent school | Yale University |
| Established | 1824 |
| School type | Private |
| Endowment | $1.2 billion |
| Parent endowment | $25.6 billion |
| Dean | Robert C. Post |
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States 41°18′43″N 72°55′41″W / 41.312°N 72.928°WCoordinates: 41°18′43″N 72°55′41″W / 41.312°N 72.928°W |
| Enrollment | 629 |
| Faculty | 149 |
| USNWR ranking | 1 |
| Bar pass rate | 96.3% |
| Website | www.law.yale.edu |
| ABA profile | Yale Law School Profile |
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Yale Law School (often referred to as Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The school's small size and prestige make its admissions process the most selective of any law school in the United States. Yale has the lowest acceptance rate among all law schools. Roughly 8 in 10 admits ultimately matriculate, which marks the best yield rate among the top U.S. law schools. Established in 1824, Yale Law offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., M.S.L., and Ph.D. degrees in law. Yale Law has been ranked the number one law school in the country by U.S. News and World Report every year since the magazine began publishing law school rankings, through 2016.
Yale Law has produced a significant number of luminaries in law and politics, including United States presidents Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton. The law school's Lillian Goldman Law Library has been memorialized as the meeting place of Bill Clinton and fellow student, Hillary Clinton, the 67th Secretary of State and Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2016 election. Former president William Howard Taft was a professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School from 1913 until he resigned to become chief justice of the United States in 1921. Alumni also include current United States Supreme Court associate justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor, as well as a number of former justices, including Abe Fortas, Potter Stewart and Byron White; several heads of state around the world, including Karl Carstens, the fifth president of Germany, and Jose P. Laurel, the third president of the Republic of the Philippines; four current U.S. senators, and the current deans of five of the top fourteen-ranked law schools in the United States: Yale, Harvard, Virginia, Cornell, and Georgetown.
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