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Sterling Law Building, 203.432.1696 http://law.yale.edu/phd M.A., Ph.D.

Dean Heather Gerken

Director of Graduate Studies Robert Post

Fields of Study

The Ph.D. in Law program prepares students who have earned a J.D. from an American Bar Association accredited law school to enter law teaching or other careers that require a scholarly mastery of law. The program is designed to provide a broad foundation in the canonical texts and methods of legal scholarship and to support students in producing original scholarship in the form of a dissertation. The program strongly encourages, but does not require, interdisciplinary approaches to the study of law.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

Each student will have a faculty advisory committee, which will help the student select appropriate courses. In their first year, students take a mandatory two-term seminar on the foundations of legal scholarship, legal theory, and methods or its equivalent as specified by the program’s director of graduate studies (DGS). Each student may enroll in as many as four additional courses. These courses may be offered in the Law School or in other departments or schools at Yale University. Each student’s advisory committee may waive up to four courses. The foundations seminar or its equivalent as specified by the program’s DGS may not be waived and must be taken for a grade, not audited.

Each Ph.D. student must take two qualifying examinations. The first, administered before the start of the second term in the program, is a written examination based on materials studied in the first term of the foundations seminar. It will test the student’s breadth of knowledge across the legal canon, including knowledge of canonical texts, methods, and principles. The second is an oral examination administered by the student’s advisory committee at the beginning of the second year and no later than October 15 of that year. The oral examination tests the student’s knowledge of the scholarship, theories, and methodologies relevant to the student’s area of study. Both qualifying examinations are graded on a pass/fail basis. A student who fails a qualifying examination will have one opportunity to retake the examination in the following term.

After completion of the second qualifying examination, the student will assemble a faculty dissertation committee and prepare a dissertation prospectus. Upon approval of the prospectus, usually by the end of the fourth term, the student will devote the remaining time in the program to writing a dissertation, which may take the form of a traditional monograph or three publishable scholarly articles. The final dissertation must be approved by both the student’s dissertation committee and the DGS.

Students in the Ph.D. in Law program are also expected to meet additional academic requirements in each year of the program, specified below and outlined in greater detail in the Ph.D. in Law Program Manual available from the Graduate Programs Office at Yale Law School. Students who fail to meet program requirements will not be in good standing and may be withdrawn from the program.

All required written work must be judged satisfactory by the student’s advisory committee, in consultation with the assistant dean for graduate programs and the DGS. A satisfactory article or chapter is one that the student’s advisory committee, the assistant dean, and the DGS agree is appropriate and ready for professional presentation at an academic workshop, and one that offers the promise of meeting the standards expected by leading law reviews or academic presses.

First-year requirements include satisfactory performance in course work, including the foundations seminar (or its equivalent as specified by the DGS); passing the first qualifying examination; and completion of a first dissertation article or chapter. Students also must submit an approved reading list for the second qualifying examination to the assistant dean and the DGS no later than the final day of the spring examination period.

Second-year requirements include submission of the first dissertation article or chapter for publication no later than the first day of classes for the fall term of the second year and successful completion of the second qualifying examination by October 15 of that year. Second-year students shall complete a second satisfactory dissertation article or chapter by December 1 and complete their first required teaching experience by the end of their second year in the program. They shall submit their dissertation prospectus to the assistant dean and the DGS by June 1 of the second year.

In the third year, students are required to complete and submit a draft of their third dissertation article or chapter by August 1, and to workshop their article or chapter at the Law School no later than September 20 in preparation for the academic job market. For those who plan to graduate in May of their third year, a final and complete dissertation must be submitted to the assistant dean, the DGS, dissertation committee members, and the graduate school registrar no later than March 15. Students must also satisfactorily complete their second teaching experience during their third year in the program. Both teaching experiences will typically be reviewed in person or via recorded media with the assistant dean and/or the committee chair and the DGS.

The program is designed to be completed in three years and two summers, but students who do not expect to complete all program requirements before the conclusion of their third year in the program are invited to petition the Law School’s Ph.D. Policy Committee for permission to enroll for a seventh and eighth semester in the program under Extended Registration or Dissertation Completion Status (DCS). Those enrolled under Extended Registration are full-time students and receive, as before, Yale Basic Health coverage and a Health Award to cover the cost of Yale Health hospitalization/specialty coverage, but they do not receive stipendiary support. Instead, having completed their two required teaching experiences, they are eligible to teach in Yale College or, in exceptional circumstances, to assist a Yale Law School faculty member in their teaching to support their living expenses. Teaching opportunities are coordinated by the graduate school’s Teaching Fellow Program. 

Students on DCS are less than half-time students who retain their Yale NetID in order to access electronic library resources and their Yale e-mail accounts. Students in this category are not eligible for stipendiary support nor a Health Award from the graduate school or the Law School; they should consult with the graduate school on other services and resources that may not be available to them as less than half-time students. 

Those on both “Extended Registration” and “Dissertation Completion” status are responsible for paying the Continuous Registration Fee. (Note that the graduate school provides a fellowship to cover the cost of the Continuous Registration Fee for those teaching in Yale College.) 

As part of their training, Ph.D. students must complete two terms of teaching experience. There are a number of ways to fulfill this requirement, depending on the availability of teaching experiences from year to year. They include: (1) serving as a teaching assistant for a Law School course, (2) serving as a student organizer for a Law School reading group, (3) serving as a teaching fellow for a course in Yale College or another school at Yale, (4) co-teaching a Law School course with a faculty member, and (5) in unusual situations, teaching their own course. In all cases, students engaged in teaching will have faculty supervision and feedback from their advisers.

Master’s Degree

M.A.  The M.A. degree may be granted to Ph.D. in Law students who are not completing the program, but who successfully complete the two-term foundations seminar and at least two additional courses, pass the two qualifying examinations, and submit an academic paper that is judged to be of publishable quality. Students may substitute a third course for one of the two qualifying examinations. The degree is available retroactively to students who matriculated from September 2013 onward.

Program materials are available upon request to the Graduate Programs Office, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, New Haven CT 06511.

For Law School courses, see the Law School bulletin, online at https://bulletin.yale.edu/bulletin/law . For courses in other schools at Yale University, please see their respective bulletins or https://courses.yale.edu . Specific course selections will be approved by the student’s advisory committee and by the DGS.

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PhD Student Funding Overview

At Yale, you can earn your doctorate at our expense. 

Our funding packages for Yale PhD students are among the most generous in the world. Every PhD student receives a fellowship for the full cost of tuition, a stipend for living expenses, and paid health coverage, though the details of your funding package will differ depending on your academic program. On average, doctoral students receive more than $500,000 in tuition fellowships, stipends, and health premium benefits over the course of their enrollment. Full PhD funding normally extends for a minimum of five years, unless your doctoral program is of shorter duration, e.g., Investigative Medicine, Law, Nursing, and Public Health. 

The main categories of funding available to PhD students are detailed below. Our Programs & Policies handbook contains additional information about funding and fellowship opportunities available at the Graduate School, along with applicable policies. 

If you have questions about your funding, you can ask your program registrar or DGS, Graduate Financial Aid, or Associate Dean Robert Harper-Mangels.

Types of Funding for PhD Students

University Fellowships (UFs) are provided through the Graduate School and do not require teaching in Yale's Teaching Fellow Program. UFs are often used during the initial year(s) of your doctoral program to cover your stipend and tuition, when you are engaged in coursework and identifying an adviser.

For official policies governing University Fellowships, including information on deferring a UF, please see our Programs & Policies Bulletin .

In subsequent years and in most programs, your stipend will be funded by a teaching fellowship or a research assistantship.

Teaching Fellowships (TFs) are contingent on teaching Yale's Teaching Fellow Program (TFP). While you are on a TF, a portion of your stipend is compensation for teaching. The rest of your stipend will come from other sources, depending on your department or program. See the Teaching Fellow Funding page for more information.

The teaching portion of your stipend is subject to federal tax withholding, so you will notice a difference in your paycheck in teaching versus non-teaching semesters.

In lieu of teaching in the Teaching Fellow Program, PhD students in the humanities and social sciences may choose to undertake one of the available Professional Development Opportunities . These positions allow you to gain professional experience at a library, museum, or other office on campus relevant to your studies. 

If you are in the natural sciences, your funding will likely come from training grants and faculty research grants at some point during your enrollment. In most programs, you may only join a research group that has active grant funding. Please consult with your DGS, if you have questions about this aspect of your funding package.

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• If you are a student in the natural sciences, an external fellowship may allow you to pursue a project or idea that is otherwise not eligible for financial support through your adviser’s research funding. 
• If you are a student in the humanities or social sciences, an external fellowship might allow you to defer a University Fellowship (UF) to a subsequent term or year. 

You can search for external fellowships through the Yale Student Grants Database , other university search engines (e.g., UCLA ), and commercial sites .

You must notify the Graduate School of any external awards you receive. 

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• If your award is subject to the Combined Award policy, then you will receive a combined award letter via email when your award has been processed, outlining your updated funding package. 

For any questions and concerns regarding your combined award letter, please contact the Graduate School Financial Aid Office via email at [email protected]. Associate Dean Robert Harper-Mangels can also advise regarding our Combined Award policy.

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The Graduate School provides Yale Health Basic Coverage at no cost to all students (Master's and PhD) who are enrolled at least half-time in degree-seeking programs. In addition, all PhD students registered at least half-time receive a Health Fellowship Award that covers the cost of Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Care Coverage.

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PhD students who are registered full-time in any year of study are eligible for the family support subsidy to assist with child-related expenses.

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The Dean’s Emergency Fund enables terminal master’s and PhD students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to continue making academic progress despite unanticipated, extreme financial hardships that cannot be resolved through fellowships, loans, or personal resources. The maximum award for eligible requests is $2,000.

Conference Travel Fellowship (CTF)

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By partnering with the MacMillan Center and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, graduate students with representatives in the Graduate Student Assembly are eligible for annual conference travel funding of up to $800.

PhD Student Travel Health Fellowship

If you are a PhD student traveling for dissertation research, the Graduate School provides a Travel Health Fellowship to cover the cost of required immunizations and prescription drugs at Yale Health.

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Allison is an MD/PhD student at Yale School of Medicine and in History of Science and Medicine. She is interested in the development of accident and emergency medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on how domestic medicine, military medicine, and industrialization intersected during a period of profound change. 

Allison graduated from Harvard College in 2020 with an A.B. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. In 2021, she earned her MSc from the University of Oxford in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. She welcomes inquiries from prospective MD/PhD and PhD students.

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Fernando Bracaccini

Fernando Bracaccini is an Argentinean doctoral student (J.S.D.) at Yale Law School, where he earned his LL.M. degree in 2018 while he was a Fulbright Scholar. Fernando’s academic interests include the intersections of political theory and the philosophy of criminal law. His J.S.D. dissertation tackles the problem of the justification of state punishment in contexts where political and moral disagreements are pervasive by revisiting the question of the permissibility of punishment from the perspective of deliberative democracy. Multicultural contexts, as the Latin American, are characterized by the existence of strong disagreements between people regarding cultural norms, values, and conceptions of the good—this is recognized, for example, in the Bolivian Constitution which defines Bolivia as a pluri-national and multicultural state. Conventional theories of punishment fail on justifying punishment in these contexts because of their dependency on strong political and moral agreements within citizens—the sort of homogeneity they presuppose is often absent in actual societies. Fernando’s research explores the implications of this problem and aims at providing a justification of punishment relying in the theory of deliberative democracy, which focuses in democratic procedures rather than in values. The outcomes of this research may have practical implications for thinking the requirements of criminal liability—especially in contexts of strong cultural diversity, and for designing participatory and deliberative processes of criminal law reform.

Prior to his doctoral studies at Yale, Fernando earned his law degree at Universidad de Buenos and the degree of Specialist in Criminal Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He taught courses on Legal Theory, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Human Rights at Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad de Palermo. He also worked in civil society organizations, in the Argentinean National Congress, in the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, and clerked in criminal courts.  

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Undergraduate students can major in Philosophy, Mathematics and Philosophy, or Physics and Philosophy. See the Yale College Programs of Study website for details for the major.

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Quicksplained: Who is Bharat Ramamurti, Kamala Harris’ Indian-origin economic advisor?

A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Indian-American Bharat Ramamurti is emerging as a key figure in shaping the economic agenda of Democrat president hopeful Kamala Harris. Previously, appointed as Deputy Director of the National Economic Council by President Joe Biden, Ramamurti is known for his liberal economic policies read more

As the 2024 US presidential election draws closer, Bharat Ramamurti has emerged as a key figure in shaping Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.   

With a strong background in liberal economic policies, Ramamurti is playing a crucial role in crafting Harris’s economic strategy. His work aims to help the Democrat nominee define her own economic vision, who is distancing herself from the political baggage associated with the Biden administration’s record on inflation and the economy.

So, who exactly is Bharat Ramamurti, and what are his plans for Harris’s economic agenda? Let’s take a closer look

1. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Ramamurti gained experience as an intern after his graduation in the legal department and later worked as a litigator. According to Harvard magazine, his parents are from Tamil Nadu, India, and later settled in the United States. His father, Ravi Ramamurti, also earned a doctorate from Harvard and so did Ramamurti’s twin siblings, Gita and Arjun.

2. Ramamurti’s rise to prominence is deeply rooted in his extensive background in economic policy. He served as a senior counsel for banking and economic matters in the Senate from 2013 to 2019. Following this, he became a close aide to Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, advising her on economic issues during her 2020 presidential campaign. His seven-year collaboration with Warren solidified his reputation as a key figure in progressive economic circles.

3. He also played a crucial role during the pandemic as a member of the COVID-19 Congressional Oversight Commission, appointed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to track some of the $2 trillion of economic stimulus approved by former President Donald Trump amid the pandemic.

In an opinion column, Ramamurti wrote for The New York Times , that the commission’s job was to “track how beneficiaries are spending public money and assess whether the public is benefiting from the half-trillion dollars it has put at the Treasury’s and the Fed’s disposal.” “Our watching eyes can help ensure that the money broadly benefits American families. There isn’t time to waste,” he added.

Ramamurti remained with the commission until December 2020.   

4. Following this, President Joe Biden named Ramamurti as Deputy Director of the National Economic Council (NEC) for financial reform and consumer protection. He focused on sectors like manufacturing, innovation, and domestic competitiveness. He left the council in 2023.

5. Bharat Ramamurti has been a staunch advocate for progressive policies, championing clean energy, raising the minimum wage, taxing the wealthy, and extensive student debt cancellation. He argues that these initiatives are not only critical for America’s future but also politically advantageous. Despite facing criticism from Republicans that these policies might fuel inflation and increase the national debt, Ramamurti remains steadfast, viewing them as essential strategies to reclaim the White House.

6. Ramamurti recently made headlines when he faced off with CNBC over the Biden-Harris proposal to tax unrealised capital gains. The network said the plan was “unfair” and “against the law”.  The plan targets individuals with assets of $100 million or more who are not paying at least a 25 per cent tax on their annual income. Despite causing a heated debate and few eye rolls, Ramamurti maintained that Harris’ plan, along with the revenue generated from the unrealised gains tax, would create greater opportunities for Americans.

With input from agencies

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