May 17, 2013
Having just completed my last law school exam, and with mere days before graduation, I’m already getting pretty nostalgic about YLS. So I thought I’d use this, my final blog post for our stellar Admissions Office, to provide a short reflection on my time at YLS. The theme is Things I Wish I Had Known About YLS Before I Got Here – something that I hope will be particularly useful to prospective students.
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April 15, 2013
Most seasoned vegetarians (and vegans) are old hands at foraging for themselves in less than ideal dining situations. However, if you are an herbivore, you’ll be happy to know Yale Law School, and New Haven in general, have plenty of vegetarian options.
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April 8, 2013
At Yale, we have fewer required classes than other schools. After our first semester, we’re free to specialize and have only a few other requirements to complete before graduation.
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April 1, 2013
I would like to expand upon a couple of Student Perspectives blog posts regarding practical training at YLS. In addition to the plethora of
clinics offered at the Law School, students can participate in simulated trial and courtroom situations in courses such as
Trial Practice and in activities such as Mock Trial and
Moot Court. In this entry, I am going to reflect on another hands-on student activity: the
Pro Bono Network (PBN).
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March 18, 2013
At Yale, we have a very strong graduate school community, with studies ranging from Comparative Literature to Economics to Public Health. As law students, we are part of this graduate school network, which offers many opportunities to meet other graduate students, explore a new interest, or delve deeper into a passion you may have explored before law school.
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March 10, 2013
When I was choosing between law schools, I looked primarily at their clinical offerings, and particularly their indigent defense clinics. While our clinic is just getting off the ground, Yale has something else going for it: it offers students the opportunity to get involved in clinics in the second semester of their first year.
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March 4, 2013
Law students spend much time, both inside and outside the classroom, analyzing arguments and creating their own. While most of this effort is focused on written and oral argumentation, YLS also provides students with an outlet to engage in
visual advocacy, by making arguments through film with the Visual Law Project.
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February 26, 2013
What do happy hours, meditation, study breaks, and March Madness all have in common? Students at YLS get to enjoy all of these activities, courtesy of our extremely active and friendly staff in the
Office of Student Affairs.
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February 18, 2013
One of the biggest myths about Yale is that it is all theory and no practice. That could not be further from the truth.
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February 12, 2013
Here at YLS, we are blessed to have an incredible resource in
the Lillian Goldman Law Library. Always the heart of the school, the law library was the institution around which the law school was built in the nineteenth century, and it continues to be central to students today.
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February 4, 2013
I won’t mince words here: the clerkship process is unpleasant. It’s maddeningly opaque, it has many of the features of an insider’s game, it’s incredibly competitive, and in the last two years the hiring plan—the last bit of order to the process—has fallen apart. At the same time, clerkships remain plum jobs after graduation.
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January 11, 2013
Yale Law School is home to student organizations for just about any interest, but for those interests not within the law school’s scope, Yale at large offers everything but the sun.
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December 10, 2012
A soaring rendition of Brahms’s “Sonatensatz” on violin and piano. Inspiring and heartfelt performances of Fauré and Schumann. A flawless vocalization of “Can’t I Just Be” from Dimond & Kooman’s Homemade Fusion. And finally, an impromptu holiday song medley sing-along around a piano that included Mariah Carey’s famous “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
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December 5, 2012
By 5:45pm last Wednesday, the line stretched out of the dining hall and around the corner. A sign to the left read “FREE SUSHI provided by a generous YLS Alum.” The promise did not disappoint.
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December 3, 2012
Below is a list, drawn from my personal experience, of five kinds of people you’ll meet and love at YLS.
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November 27, 2012
A recurring theme at YLS is community. Coming from a large state school, I was excited to become part of a more close-knit student body. But there was one aspect of the YLS community that I did not see coming: the Wall.
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November 12, 2012
My professional objective is to own and run a business as a manager and entrepreneur. I think YLS is not only a worthwhile investment—it’s also an under-rated (and surprisingly good) place to learn about business.
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November 9, 2012
After three years now at Yale Law School, I can confidently say that Alumni Weekend is my favorite part of the fall here.
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November 1, 2012
My small group has been
the defining feature of both my social and academic life at Yale thus far.
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April 24, 2012
In many ways, law school is like high school.
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April 10, 2012
Graduation. It’s approaching, quickly. This week will be the kickoff to 40 Nights, the third year class’s countdown to graduation day.
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April 2, 2012
I am absolutely in love with my law school.
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March 28, 2012
Last night, the 13 Yale Law 1L small groups waged spirited battles in pursuit of the ultimate glory: recognition as the 2012 Small Group Olympics Champions.
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March 27, 2012
Yale Law School is an extraordinary place.
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March 13, 2012
When people think about business and law, Yale Law School is rarely the first name that comes to mind.
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March 9, 2012
Last month, members of the YLS community put their talents on full display at the Initiative for Public Interest Law's annual Public Interest Auction.
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March 5, 2012
What do Moot Court and Harry Potter World possibly have to do with each other? Well, it all started last October.
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March 1, 2012
My last post focused on the institutional features at Yale Law School that enable students here to get a head start on building an academic career.
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February 15, 2012
Yale is a unique law school.
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February 13, 2012
Class selection at YLS is simultaneously easier and more complex than you might think.
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February 6, 2012
During family gatherings over winter break, my family always exclaims in horror when I tell them that my exams are in January.
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December 21, 2011
Most of my friends probably think I have to be going through hell right now.
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December 14, 2011
At the first meeting of my small group, our professor told us to take a look around the room.
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December 13, 2011
The summer before 2L year (and 3L year if a student so desires), law students have the exciting opportunity to participate in the Fall Interview Program.
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December 8, 2011
Yale Law School has a secret - an absolutely delicious secret that very few law students talk about.
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December 6, 2011
The weekend before Thanksgiving plays host to one of the great Ivy League traditions – the Harvard-Yale game, or The Game.
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November 30, 2011
Yale can be an overwhelming place to attend law school sometimes.
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November 29, 2011
One thing I appreciate about YLS is the emphasis students place on passing wisdom along to other students.
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November 17, 2011
Last weekend, my YLS community got a lot bigger. I spent the weekend as a Student Aide at the law school’s Alumni Weekend 2011: Human Rights in a Turbulent World.
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November 15, 2011
Six months ago as I was finishing an editorial about gender violence for a legal blog, a fellow classmate asked me if I planned on writing an editorial about the upcoming Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization in 2011.
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November 14, 2011
It is no secret that I am at YLS because I worked hard and attained some degree of academic success.
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November 11, 2011
When I went through the law school application process, I wrestled with many questions. Should I go to law school if I was not unequivocally committed to becoming a lawyer? Was law school for me?
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November 4, 2011
As a student of color, I was concerned about attending a school with a small class size.
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November 2, 2011
Looking back on the posts on here the past few years, I was shocked to see that there wasn’t a single one on the clerkship application process.
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October 24, 2011
First year is a nightmare. Workload? Oppressive. Classmates? Obsessive. Professors? Aggressive. You’ll try to keep up. You won’t. You’ll try to have a social life. Don’t.
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October 18, 2011
“Yes, it works in practice, but does it work in theory?” At a school where this sort of joke is part of the common self-conception, it’s no surprise that interests in academia run deep.
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October 11, 2011
Having recently moved to a new area of town, I’ve had my share of apartment searching in New Haven. So in this post I’m going to share with you my knowledge about the various options available to law students at Yale.
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April 13, 2011
Yale Law is an inspiring place, full of people who are already achieving spectacular things in the world – but sometimes you want to forget all that and simply have fun with the people around you.
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April 12, 2011
Every Monday night at 8:30, I set aside a few hours to kick back and exit the legal world.
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March 29, 2011
A few weeks ago, I had my first law teaching experience.
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March 7, 2011
Now that I am halfway through my time here at Yale Law School, I’ve gotten to the point where I know almost everyone in my purely law classes such as evidence and administrative law.
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March 3, 2011
A quick glance at nearly any wall of the law school confirms a general truth about YLS: there is always something happening here.
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February 21, 2011
Recently, I have been performing research with the intent of fulfilling one of two writing requirements.
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February 16, 2011
During the last few weeks there has been a lot of buzz around the country about Yale Law School professor Amy Chua.
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February 15, 2011
One of the main extracurricular activities of a law student is being an editor on a law review.
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January 25, 2011
I came to law school “straight through” from my undergrad in Houston and so had to make some adjustments upon moving here. There were three things that changed the most for me: housing, food, and culture.
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December 21, 2010
"Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem." It's not every day you hear Latin flowing so melodiously from the mouths of thirty Yale Law students.
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December 16, 2010
Every YLS 1L has small group pride, but mine is especially justified.
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December 14, 2010
Before graduating, all Yale Law students
must complete two writing requirements, a Substantial and a Supervised Analytical Writing (SAW).
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December 7, 2010
I've never considered myself to be much of a library person.
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December 6, 2010
Yale Law Women is a great organization, and it offers a number of amazing resources to the entire YLS community.
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November 30, 2010
When I was comparing law schools as an applicant, I heard many things, good and bad, about Yale.
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November 24, 2010
During the first week of October, my 1L small group traveled to Washington, D.C. to spend a day at the Supreme Court.
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November 19, 2010
I looked up from my netbook having written yet another page. I wondered what my professor would think of what I just wrote.
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November 17, 2010
Many people arrive at law school, particularly at Yale, with deep ideals and prior experience in the fields in which they eventually hope to work.
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November 16, 2010
You might think that attending law school will require you to sacrifice your physical fitness in order to maximize the amount of time you spend cramming for your Contracts exam in some deep dark corner of a library.
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November 15, 2010
Having been out of undergrad for a number of years, I walked into the first day of 1L orientation feeling self-assured.
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November 9, 2010
Before coming to law school, I lived in Hong Kong for seven years – first as a banker, then as an investment manager, and finally as a fundraiser for an NGO.
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November 1, 2010
Did you know that New Haven is the home of many great food "firsts"?
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October 29, 2010
Like everyone else who reads this blog, before coming to YLS, I heard a lot about the professors here: YLS has one of the lowest student-faculty ratios in the country, students are taught by legal luminaries from Day One, the small group system is a great way to get to know a professor, and the list goes on.
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October 26, 2010
We've all heard horror stories about the first year of law school, epitomized by the movie
The Paper Chase and Scott Turow's book “One L.”
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October 25, 2010
Yale Law School is known for its academic vigor and small size. I want to share some YLS gems that you (until now!) would only discover once you become a student.
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October 18, 2010
The first few weeks of 1L year are extremely harried. There are a slew of welcome events, happy hours, chances to hang out with your small group, attempts to learn how to read cases, and extracurricular activities, not to mention trying to remember everyone’s names!
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April 14, 2010
Actually, I have known since January 5, much earlier than many of my classmates had even begun to interview for jobs.
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April 6, 2010
Yale Law School is an intensely innovative place. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its programs on technology law.
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March 29, 2010
As the first warm days of spring arrived in New Haven, I found myself running up the side of East Rock (it’s much better than taking the long winding way up) enjoying the sunshine and fresh air.
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March 26, 2010
Ten months ago, I had been visiting another law school when I called my Dad.
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March 22, 2010
As some of the previous blog posts have described, YLS is unique in that it only binds you to a preset class schedule your first semester.
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March 5, 2010
One of the hallmarks of a YLS education is a diverse, interdisciplinary set of course offerings. Sometimes my friends at other law schools question the amount of “real law” that I’ve learned
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February 23, 2010
I didn’t worry about grades in college. I was in trade school (as I am now) and was sure that the jobs I would hold would be staffed by people unlikely to care that I had attended college, much less want to know my GPA or see a transcript. I was almost exclusively motivated by academic interest when choosing classes.
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February 9, 2010
One concern widely shared by law students these days is securing employment after graduation.
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January 26, 2010
As luck would have it, at the time I received the email, I had just finished teaching my students words relating to criminal behavior and incarceration.
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January 19, 2010
Why would anyone not from America do a J.D. here? It’s expensive, a long way from home, and won’t even qualify you to work in your own country.
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January 14, 2010
Unlike many of my peers at YLS, I knew relatively early on that I wanted to focus on corporate law and practice at a large law firm immediately following graduation. Given my interests in corporate law and law & economics, I was honestly a little reluctant about matriculating at Yale
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January 12, 2010
When I first got the call from the Yale admissions office, I remember being in disbelief, followed by glee, bewilderment, and anxiety. How did this happen? I was not the picture of a Yale Law student I had imagined.
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December 22, 2009
On my cousin’s advice, I decided to work as a student assistant during this year’s Alumni Weekend.
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December 14, 2009
On a Sunday morning in early November, close to twenty law students, one fan, and one dog arrived at the playing fields near the Yale Bowl.
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November 24, 2009
Picking names out of a hat never did strike me as the best way to make a decision.
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November 19, 2009
Just because we are in law school doesn’t mean we are past donning ridiculous costumes and celebrating Halloween in extravagant fashion.
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October 30, 2009
If you are considering applying to a law school or are making a choice about which one to attend, you may be looking at “student-faculty” ratios as one yardstick among many by which to compare schools.
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April 22, 2009
For those students admitted to YLS over the past few months (congratulations!), the deadline to choose whether to enroll here or at another law school is quickly approaching.
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April 14, 2009
Yale Law School is about half the size of my college class. I actually took a course in college that had more people than the YLS class of 2011.
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April 2, 2009
When I was a 1L, I studied in the Fishbowl. Trust me – it’s not as strange as it sounds.
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March 27, 2009
A 13-year old girl. A collection of prescription pills. A strip search.
Go.
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March 23, 2009
As a student with a relatively rare career interest in health law, it worried me that Yale, as a smaller school, didn’t have an official set of faculty or programs. However, it didn’t take me long to realize that I had had nothing to worry about.
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March 16, 2009
A few weeks ago, an email was circulated among the 1L class about a new joint-degree program that would begin its inaugural year this fall. The program is a joint JD/MBA program between Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management (SOM) that would allow students to earn a JD and a MBA in a total of three years.
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March 12, 2009
A couple weeks ago I enjoyed the best flan I’ve ever tasted. This delicious dessert had been preceded by freshly fried plantains and a buffet of rice, beans, pork, and beef. Surprisingly, my fabulous meal was not served at New Haven’s Soul de Cuba Café
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March 9, 2009
As I prepared to move to New Haven only six months ago, one of the first things to do was to find a place to live. Having spent the previous two years embattled in the bloodsport that is the New York City rental market, I braced myself for a long, tortuous hunt for suitable digs. Fortunately, I shouldn’t have been so worried; finding an apartment in New Haven is actually a very easy and pleasant experience.
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March 2, 2009
I think it is a safe assumption to say that each one of us has had days where we leave the law school in a state of elated disbelief questioning the reality of what had just happened in that one square block that consumes our lives.
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February 24, 2009
It was the first weekend back in New Haven after exams. We only had a few days to recover from our 1L pass-pass exam period before returning for second semester and were still trying to figure out how to shop for classes. I had already attended seven different lectures in the first week and still had no idea what I was going to take.
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February 18, 2009
The annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference (“RebLaw”) is the largest student-run public interest conference in the country, and it is hosted by Yale Law School.
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February 12, 2009
The first semester at Yale Law School is pretty standard as far as law school curriculum goes. Every 1L takes the same four classes: Constitutional Law, Contracts, Civil Procedure, and Torts. You pick up your schedule at orientation without any decisions to make or courses to decide between.
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February 5, 2009
Yale Law School has erased my need for Blockbuster and Netflix. Indeed, one could make the argument that the robust social scene at Yale makes movies second class – that is not the point of this post. Instead, Yale Law School’s tremendous movie collection has made Blockbuster a thing of the past (well, at least a trivial thing until graduation).
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February 2, 2009
Before I came to law school, I lived in one of Washington DC’s famous group houses with six of my best friends from college.
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January 23, 2009
I felt I could best contribute to the blog by offering a day in the life of a Yale Law student. I woke up this morning later than usual, a little after 10:30, thanks mostly to the open bar party hosted by the student reps of the law school.
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January 9, 2009
The traditional legal curriculum begins with two semesters of legal writing. That is too little brief-writing to become Solicitor General of the United States, and it is way more than one might need to run for President of the United States. Since 85% of Yale’s graduates go on to be Solicitor General or President of the Unites States, it should come as no surprise that our writing program is structured a little differently.
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January 7, 2009
I’m sure you’ve heard that Yale Law School has a reputation for being very collegial.
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January 5, 2009
Starting at orientation, there is no question you will hear asked more frequently or fervently than this one. “Who do you have for small group?”
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December 19, 2008
As the end of my first term at YLS nears, an increasing number of my 1L colleagues can be seen roaming the halls dressed up in full business attire. Since YLS is a pretty casual place, this sight is quite unusual –
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December 17, 2008
I wanted to start this entry with some sort of warning: despite all the wonderful things you’ve heard about Yale Law School, this whole experience isn’t all plain sailing. I wanted to find some burden you ought to bear in mind because, when I was trying to make the decisions you’re facing, the Yale write-ups all seemed a little too good to be true.
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December 15, 2008
It was the end of November, and I witnessed a big game, and I’m not talking about a Yale sporting event against Harvard. I’m talking about the Duke/Michigan college basketball showdown.
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December 12, 2008
I graduated from college on May 10, got married on May 31, and then moved across country a few months later to begin Yale Law School. I was somewhat apprehensive about coming to Yale as a married woman.
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December 9, 2008
One of the things that most, if not all, incoming law students are afraid of at the beginning of first semester is being "cold called" in class.
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December 4, 2008
My small group is amazing. From camping trips and Thanksgiving dinners to dance parties and end of the week brunches, we do it all.
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December 2, 2008
I am panicking. My final semester at Yale Law is about to begin. After finishing up my remaining credits and writing that final paper next semester, I am to be released into a foreign realm known as “The Real World.”
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December 1, 2008
As a California boy, I got awfully excited when I discovered that I would be living on the East coast, where there are so many little states close together
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November 26, 2008
This weekend was the Harvard-Yale football game. The only thing I worried about was what to wear at the tailgates from now on.
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November 24, 2008
As a first year student at YLS –otherwise known as a 1L (this is a term you will get to know and love very quickly)—there are a couple things that dominate your life.
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November 17, 2008
There may be no more daunting prospect for all soon-to-be-1Ls than the impending need to dive headfirst into the peculiar world of legal writing.
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May 1, 2008
New Haven
is beautiful in the spring.
The first
few days of truly amazing weather are upon us here, and it reminds me of all
the fun things there are to do in and around town.
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April 28, 2008
Last weekend was YLS Prom (officially known as the Yale Law
School Public Interest Formal—the event raises money for a YLS organization
that provides grants for public interest law projects after graduation.).
I know what you are thinking.
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April 25, 2008
Between clinics, classes and the occasional night out at
Anchor Bar, who has time to venture out of New Haven?
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April 23, 2008
Secretary of Homeland Defense Security Michael Chertoff came to speak at the law school on Monday, April 7, 2008. We protested him with vigor, holding signs and chanting after he was finishing speaking, but he didn't seem to mind.
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April 16, 2008
The Law School provides us with a one week break during March that students spend in a variety of ways.
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April 7, 2008
Midway through my first visit to Yale, I was a little exhausted. I’d had the name/home state/undergrad/major conversation one too many times.
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April 1, 2008
People will tell you YLSers aren’t competitive. People will tell you that walking through the doors of 127 Wall Street will instantly divest you of any desire to step over your classmates and friends on your way to becoming #1 at Yale.
People are liars.
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March 28, 2008
One of the greatest components of a Yale Law School education is the opportunity to expand your knowledge base out side of the classroom.
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March 26, 2008
Many of my friends elsewhere have compared their law school experiences to living on a desert island surrounded by nothing but books, spending the bulk of their days secluded in the library, and gaining a precious few moments of human contact when they venture out for food.
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March 21, 2008
Two years ago, when I applied to law school, the admissions process went better than I ever dreamed it would. I was accepted by both Yale and Harvard and suddenly found myself in the not-so-pitiable position of having to choose between two of the most amazing law schools in the country.
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March 18, 2008
Something that should be highlighted is that there is much more to law school than studying the law. Hence, some of you are probably wondering what life
outside the hallowed halls of Yale Law School is like.
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March 14, 2008
Before singing the praises of the reference librarians, a description of the first-year journal experience is in order.
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March 11, 2008
As you may imagine, this primary season has been a hot topic at the Yale Law School. While many professors have attempted to take a decidedly neutral stance, the students are quite another story.
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March 7, 2008
The first time I walked into a courtroom, my stomach was doing cartwheels.
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March 5, 2008
I’ve been doing a lot of job interviews lately.
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February 29, 2008
I just got back from a recruiting trip on a tropical island.
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February 26, 2008
There is some cliché about riding bikes, to which the exact phrasing escapes me, but sounds something like: “You’ll never forget how to ride a bike.” The saying (however it goes) is absolutely, unequivocally correct and it took a year in New Haven for me to come to terms with it.
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February 22, 2008
Who would have thought I would become a lawyer this fast? After just one semester of law school, I am already ‘practicing law’ and ‘meeting with clients’ for cases.
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February 19, 2008
So it’s February, and I just finished deciding my summer job plans. Choosing my summer job was reminiscent of one year ago to when I was making a decision about which law school to attend.
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February 15, 2008
As a graduating 3L, my only regret is that I didn't take more classes.
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February 12, 2008
I am loving my first year of law school. True, it is supposed to be one of the most difficult; but at YLS the first year experience is something I find myself enjoying more and more as I begin the second semester. One of the great things about first year at YLS is the ability to choose courses for second term.
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February 5, 2008
I have heard the critiques - New Haven will never be Yale’s selling point, or even a factor prospective students list on the “Pro” side of the pro/con list they are making to help them decide which law school to attend.
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January 29, 2008
There’s no other place in the U.S. to practice immigration law quite like the state of Connecticut.
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January 23, 2008
Should we practice or study? Both.
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January 17, 2008
A few weeks ago, one of the student organizations I joined sent out an e-mail inviting six students to go out to dinner with a professor. I jumped at the chance.
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January 11, 2008
When I was visiting law schools for the various admit
weekends, I noticed one common thread running through every school tour: the
amount of time spent on showcasing the law library.
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January 8, 2008
Yale is the utopia of law schools: a gorgeous gothic
building surrounding a lush green courtyard, world-renowned professors, and an
extremely relaxed grading policy -- what more could you want? But in my first couple
weeks here, I learned that while all that certainly contributes to making Yale
a wonderful experience, what truly distinguishes the law school is the faculty.
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January 2, 2008
I tried to explain to them that the last (and only) time I
had gone bowling I was roundly beaten … by a group of children … under the age
of 12.
But they weren’t having any of
it.
My small group was competing against
three other groups in a bowl-off (the technical term, I’m sure), and I was
playing.
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December 27, 2007
I’m finishing up my first semester of law school this week,
and I’m pretty shocked how quickly it has passed. Despite Yale’s reputation of
being “theoretical,” I feel like in one semester I’ve learned a lot of skills
that will help me in my law career.
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December 20, 2007
Among other things, one aspect of Yale Law that I have found
to be different from almost any other law school in
America is the lack of a separate 1L
legal writing class. Instead of a scheduled class, all of our writing
assignments are integrated into other courses throughout the first semester.
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December 17, 2007
December
has always been busy time of year. The holiday season is in full swing as
is Sunday night football.
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December 14, 2007
With the deadline looming for
deciding where to spend the summer, I thought I’d comment on the idiosyncrasies
of the Yale 2L job search.
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December 11, 2007
Due to national rules, job search season for 1Ls kicks off
December 1
st.
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December 6, 2007
Harvard-Yale weekend.
Also known as the weekend I visited the Second Circuit and wrote my
first brief … ever.
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November 26, 2007
Alumni Weekend is easily one of my favorite weekends of the
year, and one of the annual events that make me love being at YLS so much.
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November 23, 2007
Go Yale beat Harvard!
I have just experienced my first Harvard-Yale weekend and a glimpse into
the all-encompassing bulldog pride that is truly at its height during this
weekend.
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November 19, 2007
In the midst of get-to-know-you barbeques and hikes as a 1L
class, every so often, a 2L would appear on the scene. My first thought was
always, “Who is this incredibly impressive person in front of me and how have
they gotten to where they are today?”
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November 14, 2007
I was nervous about my first legal writing assignment.
At YLS, we don’t have a separate legal
writing course for 1L students.
Instead,
we learn research and writing within one of the four first semester classes –
in my case, Constitutional Law.
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November 9, 2007
After reading this blog, you probably know all the reasons
why YLS is such a great place to be. It’s small, full of really sharp people
and truly brilliant professors, not competitive, has a strong public interest
focus, no grades, yada, yada. At this point in the admissions process, I think
I had the brochure memorized. What I didn’t know, but did suspect, is how far
the Yale name can carry you when it comes time to find a job.
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November 5, 2007
Before I arrived in New
Haven, I worried about Yale’s size. I thought a legal
metropolis was necessary to create rich communities of varied interests. Over
the last two months, I’ve found that Yale has more dynamic niches than I
imagined. One of my favorites thus far has been my journal, the Journal of Law
& Humanities.
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November 2, 2007
This past week was “flyback week,” a funny euphemism for
Fall Break. The idea is that 2Ls who are
interviewing with law firms can have the week off to fly around the country and
interview for summer jobs (which, presumably, lead to permanent positions),
while the 1Ls and 3Ls can catch up on our reading.
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October 29, 2007
I’ve learned a lot of things since I began law school. I’ve learned many things from traditional
classroom lectures, but I’ve learned just as much from my experiences outside
of class.
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October 22, 2007
Admittedly, before I began law school, I was decidedly
not looking forward to the 1L line-up,
so to speak.
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October 15, 2007
I came to YLS expecting the school to provide all the
intellectual challenges and opportunities I could ever want.
I was definitely not disappointed in the
least, but surprised when I found out that I would be getting more than just
food for thought.
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October 8, 2007
Secret: I came to law school this fall fairly confident that
I did not want to practice law.
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September 17, 2007
During most of late August in 2006, my head hurt from the different emotions on my mind. I became afraid, excited, intrigued and nervous all at once. To make things worse, I was in a new city, called New Haven – which according to the masses is not a wonderful place to reside. In short, I was a new student at Yale Law School.
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May 1, 2007
On the first day of law school, I nervously walked into my first class, opened my laptop, and prepared to become part of the overwhelmed, anonymous masses.
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April 30, 2007
As I near the end of my second year, I’m coming to realize that the number of environmental courses offered at Yale hasn’t been as big of a problem as I feared it would be.
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April 27, 2007
Going to court with clinic professor Bob Solomon is like learning to walk.
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April 25, 2007
Something that I hear all the time from prospective students is that Yale is too “theoretical,” and that if you want to do something “practical,” you would be better off at another school.
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April 23, 2007
I’ve had the song lyric “Can you hear Darfur calling?” stuck in my head all weekend.
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April 12, 2007
Today, I was at school for 6 hours, which with first mention does not seem appealing at all.
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April 9, 2007
During my first class at Yale Law School, the professor announced triumphantly that we were “off the treadmill.”
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April 4, 2007
During the admissions process Yale was the last law school from which I heard.
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April 2, 2007
This past Saturday night, a group of about 20 of us got together to have a barbecue and watch the Final Four basketball games.
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March 29, 2007
I am often asked some form of the following: “I know Yale doesn’t have grades. But do you really not have grades? And doesn’t that just mean that you are more competitive in other aspects?” The answers to those questions are yes, we do have grades, and yes, there is competition.
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March 26, 2007
At the end of last year, amidst the chaos of the holiday season, combined with the end of classes, I did not realize how special it was to select classes for second semester of your 1L year.
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March 19, 2007
I’m not going to lie: law school is hard.
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March 15, 2007
In the middle of second semester, first year, I decided not to pursue an Editor position on the
Yale Law Journal.
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March 12, 2007
Everyone anticipates that some things about law school will be great, and some will be miserable.
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March 6, 2007
From my initial search looking at law schools, it became abundantly clear that Yale Law has the reputation of producing legal academics.
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February 28, 2007
I have to admit that it was a little intimidating to lead a client meeting after officially being a law student for no more than a few months.
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February 21, 2007
Wednesday mornings are arguably the toughest time of my week because Tuesdays are trivia nights.
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