Welcome to Yale Law School, a special place of educational intimacy, a community committed to excellence and humanity.

World-class students choose Yale Law School because they want to work with world-class teachers, and vice versa.

Here, we train the next generation of leaders in the judiciary and academia, as private lawyers and public servants. Here, we strive to make a difference in this world.

When I became Yale Law School’s fifteenth Dean in 2004, I outlined four key challenges:

• to make Yale Law School a truly global institution
• to prepare our students for the profession
• to reaffirm our commitment to public service, and
• to renew our faculty

My goal is to make sure that the greatest law school of the 20th century becomes an even greater law school in the 21st century.

So, my job is really very simple: it is to work as hard as I can to keep Yale Law School’s commitment to world-class scholarship, professional excellence, and service for the greater good.

Again, welcome!
Dean Harold Hongju Koh