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This is a list of notable alumni of Yale Law School, the law school of the American Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. (For a list of notable Yale University graduates, see the list of Yale University people.) Records are kept by the Association of Yale Alumni.

All degrees listed below are LL.B. (the primary professional degree in law conferred by Yale Law School until 1971) or J.D. (the primary professional degree in law conferred since 1971), unless noted otherwise.

Yale Law's three–year J.D. (LL.B., prior to 1971) program enrolls an incoming class of approximately 200 students, one of the smallest incoming class sizes of all top law schools.

Law and government

President Gerald Ford '41
President Bill Clinton '73
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton '73
Senator Gary Hart '64
Senator Chris Coons '92
Senator Arlen Specter '56
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart '41
Supreme Court Justice Byron White '46
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas '74
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito '75
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor '79
Governor of California Jerry Brown '64
Ambassador Sargent Shriver '41
Ambassador John R. Bolton '74
President of Germany Karl Carstens '49
President of the Philippines José P. Laurel '20
Dean of Harvard Law School Martha Minow '79
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz '62
Legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon '77
Legal scholar Lawrence Lessig '89
Senator Cory Booker '97
Attorney David Boies '66
Actor Ben Stein '70
Writer Elizabeth Wurtzel '08

United States government

Executive branch

U.S. presidents
U.S. attorneys general
U.S. solicitors general
Other cabinet and cabinet-level officials

Legislative branch (U.S. Congress)

Senators
Representatives

Judicial branch

Supreme Court justices
Federal Court judges
Federal courts of appeals
Federal district courts
Other courts

State government

Governors
State politicians
State judges

City government

U.S. diplomatic figures

Other U.S. political figures

Non-United States government

Non-United States political figures

Heads of state or heads of government
Other political figures

Non-United States judicial figures

International court judges
National court judges

International organization figures

Notable attorneys

Public policy leaders

Academia

University presidents and other administrators

Legal academia

Law school deans

Legal scholars

Constitutional law
Criminal law
Civil and human rights law
Intellectual property
International law
Jurisprudence
Other legal scholars

Other scholars

Activism

Business

Film, theater, and television

Writers

Media and journalism

Commentators

Journalists

Military

Sports

Other

Non-graduates

These students attended Yale Law but, for various reasons, did not graduate.

Fictitious alumni

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