2008-09 Academic Year

The following is a sampling of courses offered at Yale Law School for students to pursue education in public interest topics.

Advanced Advocacy for Children and Youth
Advanced Domestic Violence Clinic
Advanced Immigration Legal Services
Advanced Legal Services for Immigrant Communities
Advanced Worker and Immigrant Rights Clinic
Advocacy for Children and Youth
Civil Liberties and National Security After September 11
Capital Punishment Clinic
Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, and Disadvantage
Contemporary Legal Issues in Africa
Convicting the Innocent
Domestic Violence Clinic
[The] Education Adequacy Project
Environmental Protection Clinic
Groups, Diversity, and Law
Human Rights Workshop: Current Issues and Events
Immigration Legal Services
International Human Rights: Law and Policy
Lawyering Ethics Clinic
Legal Assistance
Legislative Advocacy Clinic
Legal Services for Immigrant Communities
LGBT Rights Litigation
Liman Public Interest Workshop: Detention
Local Government in Action: Workshop on Affirmative Litigation in the City of San Francisco
Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic
Native American Law
Nonprofit Organizations Clinic
Prison Legal Services
Public Order of the World Community
Sentencing
Work and Gender
Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and Fieldwork
Workshop on Chinese Legal Reform

Reading Groups
After the first term, with the approval of a faculty member, students are able to create reading groups to explore topics of interest. The participating students receive one credit for the effort, and students commonly use this vehicle to explore areas of public interest law that may otherwise not be currently addressed in the curriculum. Although the topics vary widely, a sampling of recent reading groups includes:
        Global Health and Human Rights
        Topics of Domestic Violence
        Balancing Civil Liberties: National Security
        Education Policy
        Poverty and Opportunity
        Creating Social Change