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  established 1843
  selectivity extremely selective
  free Label Dean
  free Harold Koh
  type Private
  city New Haven
  state Connecticut
  country USA
  postgrad 700
  website wwwlawyaleedu


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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.

Yale Law School has been rated #1 in the United States by '' U.S. News And World Report '' in every year in which the magazine has ranked law schools. Among other luminaries, former U.S. 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 fellow alum Hillary Clinton . Current U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are alumni of the school.