Yale Law School
Law school in New Haven
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| 2025 | Yale Law School is tied with Stanford in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, ending its solo top position. |
| January 20 2025 | JD Vance becomes the 50th Vice President of the United States, taking office during the current presidential administration. |
| 2024 | Vivek Ramaswamy runs as a candidate for president of the United States |
| 2023 | Kevin Kiley begins serving as a U.S. representative (R-California), continuing to the present day. |
| 2022 | Federal appeals judges James C. Ho and Elizabeth L. Branch stopped hiring Yale Law graduates as clerks due to concerns about suppression of conservative views. |
| 2022 | Lani Guinier concludes her tenure at Harvard Law School after more than two decades of academic contributions. |
| 2022 | Nora Demleitner becomes president of St. John's College - Annapolis, continuing to present |
| 2022 | Caroline Van Zile became the 3rd solicitor general of Washington, D.C. |
| 2022 | Arianna J. Freeman begins serving as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
| November 2022 | Yale voluntarily withdrew from the U.S. News & World Report Best Law Schools rankings, criticizing their methodology as 'profoundly flawed' and arguing that the rankings discourage low-income applicants. |
| 2021 | Yale Law School reported a median graduate salary of $94,000 and a mean graduate salary of $136,943 for the class 10 months after graduation. |
| 2021 | Rob Bonta becomes attorney general of California |
| 2021 | Eunice C. Lee begins serving as a judge for the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| 2021 | Jake Sullivan began serving as the 28th National Security Advisor, holding the position until 2025. |
| January 2021 | Gina Raimondo becomes the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving from 2021 to 2025 |
| 2020 | Yale Law School secured the top spot as the world's best law school according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). |
| 2020 | David Barlow begins serving as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah |
| 2020 | Stephan Harbarth becomes President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, continuing to serve to the present day. |
| 2020 | Chesa Boudin was elected as the 34th District Attorney of San Francisco, serving until 2022 |
| 2019 | Roy Altman begins serving as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida |
| 2019 | Stavros Lambrinidis became European Union Ambassador to the U.S., continuing to serve at the time of this record |
| 2019 | Organized a symposium titled 'International Trade in the Trump Era' in collaboration with Opinio Juris, focusing on scholarly discussions about international trade during the Trump administration. |
| 2018 | Yale Law School was established as the top-ranked law school in the Fortuna Ranking of US Law School Rankings, a position it would continue to hold in subsequent years. |
| 2018 | Planned renovations to student dormitories are set to begin, following the 2013 donation to restore on-campus living. |
| 2018 | Johannes Reich became a Professor at the University of Zurich, specializing in constitutional law, energy law, and environmental law. |
| 2018 | Alex Azar became the 24th Secretary of Health and Human Services, serving until 2021. |
| 2017 | Larry Obhof served as President of the Ohio Senate until 2020. |
| 2017 | Stephanos Bibas begins serving as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
| 2017 | Ro Khanna begins serving as a U.S. representative (D-California), continuing to the present day. |
| 2017 | Christopher A. Wray began serving as the 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, holding the position until 2025. |
| 2016 | Mark Alexander becomes dean of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. |
| 2016 | JoAnne A. Epps became provost of Temple University |
| 2015 | Law School Transparency estimated the debt-financed cost of attendance for three years at $289,879. The National Law Journal ranked Yale Law School #17 nationwide for sending 23.58% of 2015 graduates to the largest 100 law firms in the US. |
| 2015 | Jennifer Mnookin began her tenure as dean of UCLA Law School, serving to present. |
| 2015 | Michael H. Schill becomes president of the University of Oregon, continuing to present |
| 2015 | Ksenija Turkoviç becomes a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, continuing to serve to the present day. |
| 2015 | John King Jr. became Secretary of Education, serving until 2017. |
| January 2015 | Gina Raimondo becomes the 75th governor of Rhode Island, serving from 2015 to 2021 |
| 2014 | Cyrus Habib served as 16th lieutenant governor of Washington, previously serving as a state senator from 2014 to 2016 and a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 2012 to 2014. |
| 2014 | Peter Mutharika became president of the Republic of Malawi, continuing to serve at the time of this record |
| 2014 | R. Guy Cole Jr. becomes chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, serving until 2021 |
| 2014 | Pamela Harris begins serving as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
| 2013 | Official ABA-required disclosures showed 78.8% of the Class of 2013 accepted full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation. The Law School Transparency under-employment score was 8.4%. |
| 2013 | Hiram Chodosh becomes president of Claremont McKenna College, continuing to present |
| 2013 | Luís Roberto Barroso begins serving as a Judge for the Supreme Court of Brazil, continuing to the present day. |
| 2013 | Wan Exiang became Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, continuing to serve at the time of this record |
| 2013 | Richard G. Taranto begins serving as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
| 2013 | JD Vance becomes a U.S. senator (R-Ohio), serving until 2025. |
| 2013 | JD Vance graduates from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor (JD) degree. |
| November 2013 | A $25 million donation is announced to bring student dormitory living back to the Yale Law School campus, with renovations planned to begin in 2018. |
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