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Yale Law School

New Haven, Connecticut

City: New Haven

Accreditation: Full ABA

Year: 1843

Website: http://www.law.yale.edu/

Yale Law School is considered to be the best law school in the United States. Located in New Haven, Connecticut and founded in 1843, this law school provides an Ivy League education. Unlike most law schools, Yale Law School permits students in their first year to represent clients through clinics.

Clinics available at Yale Law School include: the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization which provides legal services to the underprivileged; the Nonprofit Organizations Clinic which provides legal services to nonprofit organizations; the Environmental Protection Clinic which handles environmental law problems for environmental groups and governing bodies; the Supreme Court Clinic which allows students to experience the Court procedures.

Yale Law School offers Juris Doctor (JD), Masters of Laws (LLM), Doctor of Jurisprudence (JSD), and Master of Studies in Law (MSL). Joint degree programs include: Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA), Juris Doctor/ Doctor of Philosophy (JD/PhD) in Finance, as well as other JD/PhD and JD/MA combinations. Yale Law School also has a joint degree program with Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.