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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2009 Raw Data Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate (Ascending) )〕 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.〔(ABA Journal ), "It’s Official: Yale Law School Tops US News Rankings," Apr. 23, 2009 (2010 rankings). See also: (Yale Daily News ), "Yale Law still number one," Mar. 16, 2011 (2012 rankings).〕 Yale Law has produced a large 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 announced candidate for President of the United States. 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 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 president of the Republic of the Philippines; four current U.S. Senators, and the current deans of six of the top fourteen-ranked law schools in the United States: Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Virginia, Cornell, and Georgetown. Each class in Yale Law's three-year J.D. program enrolls approximately 200 students. The school's law library, the Lillian Goldman Law Library, is one of the largest law libraries in the world. Yale's flagship law review is the ''Yale Law Journal''. According to Yale Law School's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 78.8% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo practitioners. ==Culture== The institution is known for its scholarly orientation; a relatively large number of its graduates (13%) choose careers in academia within five years of graduation, while a relatively low number (48%) choose to work in law firms five years after graduation.〔http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/cdo-summary_memo_96_00.pdf〕 Another feature of Yale Law's culture since the 1930s, among both faculty and student graduates, has been an emphasis on the importance of spending at least a few years in government service.〔(Statement of Dean Harold H. Koh ), “Yale Law School Expands Public Interest Program, Financial Support for Graduates,” April 14, 2008.〕 A similar emphasis has long been placed on service as a judicial law clerk upon graduation.〔(Top-law-schools ).com.〕 Its 7.6:1 student-to-faculty ratio is the third lowest among U.S. law schools.〔http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/yale-university-03027〕 Yale Law does not have a traditional grading system, a consequence of student unrest in the late 1960s.〔Kalman, Laura, ''Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations'' (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2005)〕 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/Fail 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 most U.S. schools require. Unusually, and as a result of unique Connecticut State court rules, Yale Law allows first-year students to represent clients through one of its numerous clinics; other law schools typically offer this opportunity only to second- and third-year students. Students publish nine law journals that, unlike those at most other schools, mostly accept student editors without a competition. The only exception is YLS's flagship journal, the ''Yale Law Journal'', which holds a two-part admissions competition each spring, consisting of a four or five-hour "bluebooking exam," followed by a traditional writing competition. Although the ''Journal'' identifies a target maximum number of members to accept each year, it is not a firm number. Other leading student-edited publications include the ''Yale Law and Policy Review'', the ''Yale Journal on Regulation'', the ''Yale Journal of Law and Technology'', and the ''Yale Journal of International Law''. In November 2013, it was announced that a $25 million donation would bring student dormitory living back onto campus, with renovations to begin in 2018. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yale Law School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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