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Yale Law School is the law school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1824, it has been the top-ranked law school in the United States by U.S. News & World Report every year since the magazine began publishing law school rankings in the 1980s.
Yale Law has produced a prominent figures in law and politics, including United States presidents Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton and former U.S. secretary of state and presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
Alumni also include current United States Supreme Court associate justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as a number of former justices, including Abe Fortas, Potter Stewart and Byron White; several heads of state around the world, including Karl Carstens, the fifth president of Germany, Jose P. Laurel, the third president of the Republic of the Philippines; and Peter Mutharika, the immediate former president of Malawi; five current U.S. senators; the former governor of California and immediate former governor of Rhode Island and current United States Secretary of Commerce; and the current deans of three of the top fourteen-ranked law schools in the United States: Virginia, Cornell, and UCLA.
These amazing vintage photos from
Ken that captured portraits of students of Yale Law School in 1877.
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Francis Wayland III (1826-1904), dean of Yale Law School (1873-1903) |
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Jurist and law professor Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927), an outstanding law professor for 50 years at the Yale Law School (1869-1919) |
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Albert Marion Tallmadge (1854-1905), Yale Law School, 1877 |
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Alfred Newton Wheeler (1855-1937), Yale Law School, 1877 |
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Alvin Driggs Ayres (1855-?), Yale Law School, 1877 |
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