List of Yale Law School Alumni

List Of Yale Law School Alumni

This a list of notable alumni of Yale Law School. For a list of notable Yale University graduates, see Yale University people.

All degrees listed below are LL.B. (the primary professional degree in law conferred by Yale Law School until 1971) or J.D. (the primary professional degree in law conferred since 1971), unless noted otherwise.

Yale Law's three-year J.D. (LL.B., prior to 1971) program enrolls an incoming class of approximately 200 students, one of the smallest incoming class sizes of all top law schools.

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