List of Yale Law School alumni

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.)

(the primary professional degree in law conferred since 1971), unless noted otherwise.

(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.

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

President Gerald Ford '41
President Bill Clinton '73
Vice President JD Vance '13
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