New Haven,
CT,
United States
Type
Private
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
Doctor of Science of Law in New Haven United States | Yale University
Yale University
|
New Haven United States
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Qualification
Doctor of Philosophy
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
USD
71,540
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
36 months
Yale Law School's Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) program is an elite doctoral track designed for LL.M. graduates from Yale who pursue academic careers in legal education and research. This program brings together a dynamic international community of scholars, with numerous alumni securing faculty and leadership roles at prestigious universities worldwide, including institutions in the United States. Admission to the J.S.D. program requires outstanding performance in Yale's LL.M. program and proven capability for exceptional academic research. Once enrolled, J.S.D. students must produce a dissertation that offers significant, innovative additions to legal scholarship. This dissertation, whether presented as a full-length book or three publishable law journal articles, builds a crucial foundation of written work for entering the academic job market.
Destination of Study
Subjects of Study
Language Requirements
English
IELTS 6.0
Qualification Requirements
A successful J.S.D. applicant must have achieved high standing in earning the LL.M. degree at Yale Law School and show promise of producing superior scholarship. Admission to the J.S.D. program is highly selective; it does not follow automatically from the award of the LL.M. degree, but rests entirely on the Graduate Admissions Committee's independent judgment of an applicant's qualifications. The Yale LL.M. degree must ordinarily have been awarded within the five years preceding the student’s J.S.D. application.
Students who have earned an LL.M. degree from an institution other than Yale Law School are admitted very rarely and only under extraordinary circumstances.
Tuition
USD
71,540