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Yale Law School, established in 1843 in New Haven, Connecticut , is a division of Yale University . The school offers the J.D. , LL.M. , M.S.L. , and J.S.D. degrees in law. In addition to its teaching activities, the school also has an active visiting scholars program and is home to a number of legal research centers. The institution has been ranked the best law school in the United States by was a professor of Constitutional Law there from 1913 until he resigned to become Chief Justice Of The United States in 1921 . Yale Law School's class, at about 200, is relatively small, and its student to faculty ratio, at 7.5, is the lowest of any law school in the U.S. Its small class size and high prestige combine to make its admissions process highly selective, with high GPA , high LSAT score, and very strong nonnumerical credentials being near-prerequisites to admission. Half of the class that entered in 2005 had GPAs at or above 3.88 and had LSATs at or above 172 (99th percentile), out of 180 possible points. {Link without Title} The school is known for its especially scholarly orientation and a disproportionately large number of its graduates (4%) choose careers in academia. Yale's curriculum is generally less geared toward corporate and commercial law than that of other leading schools, such as Columbia , Harvard and Stanford . More of its graduates take Judicial Clerkships than at any other school (38%). Yale 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/Failure 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 ordinarily required at American law schools. 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 9 Law Journals which, unlike those at most other schools, accept student editors without a competition. The only exception to this policy is YLS's flagship journal, ''The Yale Law Journal '', which holds an admissions competition each Spring. Its Law Library is Lillian Goldman Law Library, and contains around 800,000 volumes. The School's classrooms were redesigned in 1998 as part of a larger renovation begun in 1995. PROMINENT FACULTY
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