<p>HLS may have three times the number of students as YLS, but most of the HLS alums on the supreme court likely come from the top third of their incoming classes at HLS. i hypothesize, in other words, that HLS could cut its class size by 2/3 and still produce more justices than YLS.</p>
<p>Yes, I am obviously talking about one specific person, even when using the plural "people."</p>
<p>Since when did Yale need an excuse for Stanford?</p>
<p>You think that getting someone on the supreme court is the ultimate test of a law school. Well, it is just one small factor amongst many. Can you handle that?</p>
<p>What's much more important to prospective students isn't the # of justices on the Supreme Court (a sample size of seven people is hardly relevant, anyways), but the chance you'd get to CLERK for one of the justices.</p>
<p>Yale has by far the highest rate of sending its graduates onto Supreme Court clerkships. UChicago is a distant second, and Harvard is third.</p>
<p>This probably helps explain why over 80% of students admitted to Yale Law choose Yale. Only about 55-60% of students admitted to Harvard Law choose Harvard.</p>
<p>yes...why do fewer people choose harvard law?</p>
<p>HLS has a reputation for being very cutthroat which may explain its lower yield.</p>
<p>HLS and YLS are different, although they are both excellent schools. By stereotype, Harvard is more corporate focused and Yale draws more students who are interested in jobs with the government (like the Dept. of Justice) and academia.</p>
<p>I heard University of Chicago grads are the grads are the best out there</p>
<p>Yale law is better, I am a Harvard person all the way but I know for a fact Yale law is superior because I know someone who went to both. Yale accepts much fewer law students however and harvard has a body of law students six times larger.</p>
<p>There was actually an article on the YDN about the disparity in Supreme Court Justices and their answer seems quite logical: Supreme Court Justices are old people and Yale was probably not the best Law School when they were studying. Yale's reputation as #1 is more recent (last 20 years) and so not enough time has passed for this to reflect on the Supreme Court, if it's even expected that it should reflect at all.</p>
<p>Yale may not have moved to number 1 until the last 20 years, but it has been in the top five or so since at least the 1930s - before some of the current justices were born and in plenty of time to put out lots of Supreme Court judges of their own. There was Byron White, a fine justice who was appointed in 1962, so we know it's not totally impossible for a YLS grad to make it onto the court. It just hasn't happened very often.</p>
<p>Don't forget president taft and earl warren</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Don't forget president taft and earl warren<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Both were fine gentlemen, but neither is a Yale Law School grad. Taft went to law School at Cincinnati and Warren at Berkeley.</p>