yale law phd candidates

Candidates for Degrees

• HARLEY F. ETIENNE
• LORRAINE LOLITA ABDULAHAD
• SOLOMON AMANZULLEY AKESSEH
• ALEXA MAUD ANDAYA
• STEPHEN DAVID ANDREWS
• LAITH MAHMOUD AQEL
• ESTHER BORSODI ARAYA
• SOLOMON ADEBAYO ARIWOOLA
• CHUN SUN BAAK
• JESSICA DENISE BAKER
• FAITH JUSTINE BARKSDALE
• PETER CHARLES BASSINE
• SARAH JANE BEVER-CHRITTON
• NICOLE MICHELLE BILLINGTON
• JOSHUA DANIEL BLECHER-COHEN
• MORTON DANIEL BLOOMFIELD
• EKATERINA BOTCHKINA
• KRISTEN JEAN BOURGEOIS
• SIMON CHRISTOPHER BREWER
• PILAR M. BRITO
• RACHEL ANN HAMBURG BROWN
• CHARLES STEPHEN BULLOCK
• JOSEPH ROCHE BURSON
• EVELYN T CAI
• JAMES THOMAS CAMPBELL
• SERENA ASHLEY CANDELARIA
• MARY CHARLOTTE YUST CARROLL
• SARA ELIZABETH CERVANTES
• ALAA N. CHAKER
• JOSEPH L. CHATHAM
• LINGXI CHENYANG
• ASHLEY SEE CHIANG
• ZOHAIB HASAN CHIDA
• BRIANA MONÉT CLARK
• JONATHAN BENJAMIN COHEN
• ANNA CATHERINE COLL
• JULIA MARION COPPELMAN
• DARCY CATHERINE COVERT
• ASA JEREMIAH CRAIG
• CORTNEY D. CRESWICK
• PETER LEOPOLD DAMROSCH
• SAMUEL JACOB DAVIS
• ANDREA M. de SÁ
• W. BRANDON DeBOT
• TEMILOLUWA ADEOLA DELE DARE
• SUSAN DELGADO
• DALE HANCE DILBECK III
• MANNING DING
• ERIN DANIELLE DRAKE
• ALEXANDRA LISTFIELD DUDDING
• MAILYN JOY ROGGE FIDLER
• JOSEPH ZACHARY FIELDS
• NICHOLAS A. FLATLEY
• ROBERT ANTHONY FLATOW
• JADE AUGUSTINE YOUNG FORD
• SAMUEL EHLERS FRIZELL
• ALISSA BROOKE FROMKIN
• ANNACRIZELDA CHAVEZ FUNTELAR
• LEANNE REBECCA GALE
• STEPHANIE BESSIE GARLOCK
• DANIEL LEE GIFFORD
• EMMETT F. GILLES
• MARGUERITE GILLES
• KUN WOO GKOO
• LEWIS GOLOVE
• JOHN BARON GONZALEZ
• JORDAN REINOLD GARCIA GONZÁLEZ
• AARON SCOTT GORDON
• SAMANTHA O'NEIL GRAYMAN
• JONATHAN ALLEN GREEN
• YANMIN ALICE GU
• VERONICA ALEXIS GUERRERO
• JEFFREY Y. GUO
• ISABELLE MARGARET HANNA
• AARON D. HAUPTMAN
• ROSA CATHARINE HAYES
• THOMAS EDWARD HOPSON
• DANIEL ZACHARY HORNUNG
• MICHELLE HUANG
• PATRICK A. HULIN
• HANNAH E. HUSSEY
• RUEL VALENTINE JERRY
• HAOYANG JIANG
• MITCHELL CHERVU JOHNSTON
• PETER APOSTOLOS KALLIS
• WILLIAM MAXWELL MAHANY KAMIN
• PHILLIP JAY KAPLAN
• EMMANUEL ENIOLUWA KASSIM
• EUGENE KYUYOUNG KIM
• SHLOMO KLAPPER
• LAURA STEVENS KOKOTAILO
• SAHRULA KUBIE
• NIKITA ARIELE LALWANI
• DANIEL CHARLES LaMAGNA
• DAVID JACOB LEHR
• ELA ANNA LESHEM
• EDMUND DAVID HAYES LEVIN
• ELIZABETH LEVIN
• SARAH MICHAEL LEVINE
• GABRIEL MARCUS LEWIN
• NATHAN D. LEYS
• MICHELLE ARIANNE LI
• ALEXANDRA ROSE LICHTENSTEIN
• MATTHEW EDWARD LIFSON
• LYNETTE LIM
• LAURA LYNN LIPTRAP-SANDOVAL
• JOSEPH MICHAEL LISS
• ALLAYA MARRISSA LLOYD
• RETLEY GENE LOCKE, JR.
• TALYA LOCKMAN-FINE
• WAJDI CHIBLI MALLAT
• SHANNON NICOLE MANLEY
• MARIA PAULINA MANZUR MARTINEZ
• KATRIN MARQUEZ
• PAUL ELLIOTT MARTIN
• RYAN ROBERT MARTINS
• SAMUEL SCOTT MARULLO
• ABIGAIL MARIE McCOURT
• CALEB STEPHEN McCRACKEN
• ALEXANDER PHILIP MECHANICK
• ASEEM MEHTA
• PETER EDWARD MENZ
• JOSHUA MERMELSTEIN
• ARJUN AJAY MODY
• JULIANA REGIA MORAES LIU
• KAYLA NATALIE MORIN
• ELSA MARIA MOTA
• MEGAN MUMFORD
• LAUREN NATHAN
• ROBERT HARDY NEWELL
• KELLY ROSE O'REILLY
• NICHOLAS OO
• BENNETT JAMES OSTDIEK
• ROBERT MICHAEL OVERING
• SEO HUN PARK
• SAMANTHA GOLDMAN PELTZ
• AUDREY ANN PENCE
• SIERRA JOY PEREZ-SPARKS
• ABIGAIL DREW PERSHING
• DANIEL KALMAN PHILLIPS
• ALDEN PURDY PINKHAM
• LISSET MARIE PINO
• KESHAV RAJ PODDAR
• KATHRYN ANNE POGIN
• NIKKO BROOKS PRICE
• SHANNON DOYLE PRICE
• ISA CHARLES QASIM
• LAUREL ANN RAYMOND
• KATE RACHEL REDBURN
• CARA McDONOUGH REICHARD
• MAX M. REINHARDT
• MORGANE RICHER LA FLECHE
• FARRAH MARIE RICKETTS
• GIOVANNA DINORAH ROBLEDO
• JOSHUA ARI RUBIN
• MEDINA MONNAWARA SADAT
• MOHAMED SAID
• DESMOND EDDIE SANDOVAL
• JONATHAN WILLIAM SARNOFF
• MELANIE SAVA
• SOREN JACOBSEN SCHMIDT
• SOREN OWEN SCHWAB
• WENDY SERRA
• MATTHEW TYLER SHAPIRO
• EMILY SUZANNE SHIRE
• PAUL EDWARD SHORTELL
• MADELINE MORAN SILVA
• MARY ELLA WRIGHT SIMMONS
• ANDREA VALENTINA SISO
• ANIRUDH SIVARAM
• CALLUM ALEXANDER FRANCIS SPROULE
• REBECCA EVA STEINBERG
• ERIC EDWARD STERN
• SCOTT WASSERMAN STERN
• KELSEY ANNE STIMSON
• JOHN McAFEE SUPER
• TOMOAKI BRIAN TAKAKI
• CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE TALBOT
• TOR ORESTE TARANTOLA
• RYAN CHRISTOPHER THIER
• ALISA TIWARI
• XUAN HONG THI TRAN
• ZOE OJA TUCKER
• JENNY LAUREN TUMAS
• SARA MAE TURK
• ERICA SUSAN TURRET
• JACOB MATTHEW VAN LEER
• ANNIE JING WANG
• XIANGNONG WANG
• ZOE ANNA YOSHII WEINBERG
• SAMUEL ZACHARIAS WHIPPLE
• JESSE BENJAMIN WILLIAMS
• JACLYN MICHELLE WILLNER
• ANNA MARGUERITE WINDEMUTH
• KATHLEEN L. XU
• MEGAN CHUNMEI YAN
• ALEXA KATHERINE ZAHL
• ALEXIS YIWEI ZHANG
• KATHERINE ZHANG
• WENQING ZHAO
• JOSHUA PHILLIP ZOFFER
• DANIELLE ZUCKER

Degrees Conferred Earlier in the 2019-2020 Academic Year

• CLARE KATHRYN KANE
• CHINMAYI ARUN
• FRANZISKA BANTLIN
• ANDRÉS CARO BORRERO
• JOEL CHRISTOPHER COITO
• PATRICIA CRUZ MARIN
• GORAN DOMINIONI
• ADRIANA ELIZABETH EDMEADES
• YU-TANG HSIAO
• DÉSIRÉE URSINA KLINGLER
• OLEKSANDR KOMAROV
• FERNANDO JAVIER LOAYZA JORDÁN
• SANDRA MAE TOLENTINO MAGALANG
• DOMINIK MEIER
• ARNAUD SIMON GASPARD NUSSBAUMER
• OMAR YOUSEF SHEHABI
• NICOLA TOMMASINI
• ROCÍO DEL PILAR TRUJILLO SOSA
• AMRITA VASUDEVAN
• ELAZAR JACOB WEISS
• DANIEL WOLFF
• MARIANA VELASCO RIVERA

The PhD in Law program prepares students who have earned a JD 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.

• Programs of Study
• PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
• Yale Law PhD Program

Robert Post

Director of Graduate Studies

• [email protected]

Gordon Silverstein

Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs

• [email protected]

Thais Sobczak

Departmental Registrar

• [email protected]
• 203-432-1696

Admission Requirements

Standardized testing requirements.

GRE is not accepted.

Program-Specific Application Requirements

A writing sample and a research proposal are required by this program. 

English Language Requirement

TOEFL iBT or IELTS Academic is required of most applicants whose native language is not English.

You may be exempt from this requirement if you have received (or will receive) an undergraduate degree from a college or university where English is the primary language of instruction, and if you have studied in residence at that institution for at least three years.

Academic Information

GSAS Advising Guidelines

Academic Resources

Academic calendar.

The Graduate School's academic calendar lists important dates and deadlines related to coursework, registration, financial processes, and milestone events such as graduation.

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Registration Information and Dates

https://registration.yale.edu/

Students must register every term in which they are enrolled in the Graduate School. Registration for a given term takes place the semester prior, and so it's important to stay on top of your academic plan. The University Registrar's Office oversees the systems that students use to register. Instructions about how to use those systems and the dates during which registration occurs can be found on their registration website.

Financial Information

Phd stipend & funding.

PhD students at Yale are normally full-funded for a minimum of five years. During that time, our students receive a twelve-month stipend to cover living expenses and a fellowship that covers the full cost of tuition and student healthcare.

• PhD Student Funding Overview
• Graduate Financial Aid Office
• PhD Stipends
• Health Award
• Tuition and Fees

Alumni Insights

Below you will find alumni placement data for our departments and programs.

Candidates for Degrees

• BENEDICT PATRICK COLERIDGE
• KATHARINE JULIA HARLOW
• ROBERT C. SCHEHR
• SAMUEL LOUIS ABER
• ANYA CORKE ALLEN
• NICOLE ROSE ALLICOCK
• RICHARD J. ALTIERI
• JOSHUA ADAM ALTMAN
• ZACHARY AARON AUSTIN
• MICHAEL SHEFFER AVI-YONAH
• SAMUEL THURMON AYRES
• ANNE REBECCA BAKER
• SARAH ANN BALDINGER
• HENRY ATTICUS BALLESTEROS
• TANUSHREE BANSAL
• HANNAH BARBOSA CESNIK
• NAYLA A. BASMA
• DAVID A. BASSALI
• HENRY ROBERT BAUER
• LERNIK BEGIAN
• SAMANTHA CLAIRE BENSINGER
• BRENDAN C. BERNICKER
• DANIEL RICARDO BETANCOURT
• HELIA BIDAD
• KYLE W. BIGLEY
• CHARLOTTE FOSTER BLATT
• JOSHUA PAUL BRITT
• ANDREW BLAKE BROD
• REBECCA CLAIRE BROOKS
• NATASHA HAYDEE BRUNSTEIN
• JACKSON THOMAS BUSCH
• YOLANDA BUSTILLO
• NICOLE CABAÑEZ
• CATHERINE VARLEY CAMP
• EMILY JOCELYN CAPUTO
• EVELIN CARO GUTIERREZ
• HANNAH KATHLEEN CARRESE
• RALEIGH CAROLYN CAVERO
• LETITIA CHAI
• ANGELA A. CHAN
• IFEYINWA KAREN CHIKEZIE
• SIMON EUNCHUN CHIN
• BENJAMIN GYUHYUNG CHOI
• GRACE EUNHYE CHOI
• EMILY JO COADY
• LUKE WHITE CONNELL
• CHARLES KENT CROSBY
• KAYLA MARIE CROWELL
• TYLER HOANG VIET DANG
• GABRIEL A. DELANEY
• BENJAMIN HAYES DELLA ROCCA
• SABRINE DJEMIL
• QUINT CLARK DOAN
• ELSA PARRY DODDS
• NATHANIEL WALD DONAHUE
• ANNA ELENA EGAS
• ARIADNE MOTTA ELLSWORTH
• ELAINE JANICE EMMERICH
• MAE ESPINOSA
• CHRISTOPHER MARTIN EWELL
• BARDIA FAGHIHVASEGHI
• KATHERINE FANG
• ALEXANDRA M. FAY
• CATHERINE MARIE FEUILLE
• ALEXANDER MICHAEL FISCHER
• JUSTICE ISABEL FORTE
• ERIK PUGH FREDERICKSEN
• DAVID BRADLEY FROOMKIN
• DEEPANKAR GAGNEJA
• ALI MURAT GALI
• PAULA ANDREA GARCIA SALAZAR
• JASON PAUL GARDINER
• LIAM P. GENNARI
• NATALIE ELIZABETH GIOTTA
• MAX JESSE GOLDBERG
• ALEXANDRA GONZALEZ
• WYNNE MUSCATINE GRAHAM
• CAROLINE REBECCA GRUESKIN
• DAISY ANNE GUILYARD
• KATHERINE RAMSEY HAMILTON
• SAMUEL HAINES HEAVENRICH
• FRANK ETHAN HEDGEPETH
• KELLY MARLENE HERNÁNDEZ
• TIMOTHY NICHOLAS HIRSCHEL-BURNS
• COLBIE MARIE HOLDERNESS
• PATRICK OFFUTT HOLLAND
• ELIANE F. HOLMLUND
• BRIAN DAFFERN HONG
• MARGARET STODDARD HOUSE
• SAMUEL ERIC de FREITAS HULL
• RYDEN CHARLOTTE ISHIDA
• GAVIN WAYNE JACKSON
• LYES MAUNI JALALI-YAZDI
• SHEA STEINBERGER JENDRUSINA
• SARA LOUISE JONES
• SPURTHI JONNALAGADDA
• GRACE R. JUDGE
• EZRA CHARLES KAGAN
• FIZA ZARQA KHAN
• SHARIFUL ISLAM KHAN
• CLARISSA GLENN KIMMEY
• SELENA NICOLE KITCHENS
• CLIO SOPHIA KOLLER
• ANNAMARIE E. KOSTIAL
• BAPUCHANDRA KOTAPATI
• ELISABETH KATHERYNE KRYSKA
• PERRY JOSEPH KUMAGAI
• MAXIM LABUNSKY
• ZAIN LAKHANI
• DESERAE NICOLE LANE
• ROBERT JAMES LAROSE
• LORAND CYRUS LASKAI
• EMILY WAI-YAN LAU
• VICTOR ROMAN LEAL
• JARED JOSEPH LeBRUN
• ADELA LILOLLARI
• YA SHENG LIN
• JOSEPH BRIAN LINFIELD
• LAWRENCE JONEFAN LIU
• PATRICK AUSTIN LIU
• MARNIE H. LOWE
• ESTRELLA MARIA LUCERO
• CAROLYN TINGWEN LYE
• WELLINGTON MACKEY
• JACOB MICHAEL MADDEN
• KATHRYN ANNE FORKEY MAHONEY
• LOGAN JOHN MALACH
• LARA GERALDINE MARKEY
• ZOE LINDIWE LEWIS MASTERS
• MIGUEL U. MAURICIO
• ROBERT REID McINVALE III
• GRACE CAMILLA YORK MERMEL
• JEFFREY ROBERT METZGER
• CARA ROSS MEYER
• RANDI BETH MICHEL
• ALEXANDRIA C. MISKHO
• PATRICK CARTER MONAGHAN
• EMMA REBECCA MONTOYA
• DESTINY ROSE MURPHY
• NICOLE YUN LIN NG
• ZARIA ANTOINETTE NOBLE
• ALEXANDER NOCKS
• ANDREW NTIM
• DANIEL EDUARDO R. OCAMPO
• JACQUELYN NIKOLE OESTERBLAD
• NINA LEA MICHIKO OISHI
• KATHLEEN ELISE OLDS
• SOMMER OMAR
• UZOMA KENNETH ORCHINGWA
• AYOUB OUEDERNI
• ELI ANDREW PALES
• WALTER NYEKORACH PAUL
• RACHEL CORRINE PERLER
• ALASDAIR NATHANIEL PHILLIPS-ROBINS
• WILLIAM FREDRIK POFF-WEBSTER
• SARAH A. PURTILL
• SIYUAN SONIA QIN
• FERNANDO QUIROZ
• AUSTIN PATRICK REAGAN
• ANGELA ROSE REMUS
• PHOENIX MAKALA RICE-JOHNSON
• ALEXANDRA NICOLE RICKS
• SIMONE RIVERA
• ELEANOR F. ROBERTS
• DARIA T. ROSE
• EZRA J. RUIZ
• TONTY ENMANUEL RUTINEL
• KENI RAE SABATH
• ISIR M. SAID
• EMILY MARÍA SARTIN
• JOEL COLLIN SATI
• MORGAN ELLEN SAVIGE
• JOSHUA MICHAEL SCHENK
• DANIEL THOMAS SHACKELFORD
• AKANKSHA SHAH
• KAVERI SHARMA
• KRISTIN ANGELLE SHARMAN
• CLYDE MANABU SHAVERS
• EMILE RAMEZ SHEHADA
• YICONG SHEN
• CAMERON BLAKE SILVERGLATE
• JOSEPH EDWARD SIMMONS
• JACKSON BRUCE SKEEN
• ALEXANDRA MICHELLE SMITH
• CASEY KATHARINE SMITH
• RACHEL VALENTINA SOMMERS
• RACHAEL ALANA STRYER
• ELISE LAURA SUGARMAN
• MEDHA SWAMINATHAN
• DELARAM TAKYAR
• THADDEUS ANTHONY TALBOT
• CHELSEA L'RAE SANCLEMENTE THOMPSON
• ANTHONY MARK TOHMÉ
• SARAH MACKENZIE WALKER
• EVAN BENJAMIN WALKER-WELLS
• EMILY LU WANG
• NATHANIEL GUSTAV WARNER
• XAVIERA J. WEBB
• ALEXANDER MATTHEW WEISS
• DEREK L. WEISS
• TAYLOR KIRSTEN WITHROW
• EMMETT A. WITKOVSKY-ELDRED
• KOLOA HA'AFULUHAO WOLFGRAMM
• KATAEYA SHAMYNE WOOTEN
• NOELLE NELSON WYMAN
• XUANLING XU
• PAUL MICHAEL ZEBB III
• LEAH G. ZUKERMAN

Degrees Conferred Earlier in the 2021-2022 Academic Year

• LAITH MAHMOUD AQEL
• CORY ALEXANDER EVANS
• KETAN RAMAKRISHNAN
• AKSHAT AGARWAL
• YUSSEF AL TAMIMI
• SAFWAN M.A. AMIN
• EUSEBIO RODRIGO AYALA MIRET
• KANGYUN BAO
• KOUROCH BELLIS
• YONAT BEN OZER
• TAIS SOFIA CUNHA DE BARROS PENTEADO
• ANTOINE DE SPIEGELEIR
• DORUK ERHAN
• NICOLAS ESGUERRA MIRANDA
• SANTIAGO GARCÍA JARAMILLO
• LETIZIA GIANNI
• RAAYA TASMIN SARA GOMEZ
• ALEJANDRO SAMUEL GONZALEZ CATAÑO
• ALAA HAJ YAHIA
• JOACHIM-NICOLAS HERRERA
• EVA MARGUERITE HERZOG
• JULIAN JAKOB HINZ
• VIVA IEMANJÁ JERÓNIMO
• JOSEPH BUCHANAN LANDMAN
• JAN-BAPTIST CATHERINE J. LEMAIRE
• MILAGROS MUTSIOS RAMSAY
• MARIA GRACIA NARANJO PONCE
• BRUNO POLONIO RENZETTI
• DANIEL QUINTANILLA CASTRO
• LENA RIEMER
• LUCIA MARIA RODRIGO
• PAMELA GABRIELLE ROMEU GOMES ROQUE
• OSKAR NAVIN SHERRY
• PAOLO EMMANUEL SALAS TAMASE
• CAMILLE MARIE P. VAN PETEGHEM
• CHANTELLE VIVIAN van WILTENBURG
• XINGGUANG ZOU
• GUILLERMO JOSE ARRIBAS IRAZOLA
• XIMENA SOL BENAVIDES REVERDITTO
• CARLOS DE LA ROSA XOCHITIOTZI
• RAEESA VAKIL
• GEORGIOS DIMITROPOULOS
• GERSHON HASIN
• GREGOR NOVAK
• ALESSANDRO ROMANO

Yale Daily News

First law Ph.D.s set to graduate

Staff Reporter

Three students from the inaugural class of Yale Law School’s Ph.D. in Law program — the first of its kind in the nation — will graduate this semester, signaling much promise for a program that faced controversy at its outset.

Amid national scrutiny, Yale Law School launched the nation’s first Ph.D. in Law degree program in 2012. Today, the institution is still the only top law school to offer a Ph.D. degree in law. The program chose five Ph.D. candidates out of 82 applicants for its inaugural class in fall 2013, and an additional five and three students for its subsequent two cohorts, respectively. Two students from the inaugural class deferred their graduation by one year. Of the three members graduating this semester — Maureen Brady LAW ’11 LAW ’16, Rebecca Crootof LAW ’11 LAW ’16 and Rory Van Loo LAW ’16 — two will begin tenure-track positions at law schools, and the third will serve as the executive director of a major law school research center — an appointment yet to be publicly announced.

“The program aims to prepare students to make particularly important contributions in the field of legal study, and we are doing very well in that respect. We have produced strong students with excellent publication records,” said Gordon Silverstein, the Law School’s assistant dean for graduate programs.

When the Law School first announced its three-year Ph.D. degree in 2012, legal scholars nationwide cast doubt on the relevance of the program. They questioned how the program, open only to those with a law degree, differs from the already existing dual degree that consists of a J.D. con ferred by a law school and Ph.D. conferred by a graduate school of arts and sciences, or from other teaching fellowships granted by law schools. Yale Law School administrators argue that the school’s three-year doctoral program would cement the law’s status as a field of its own — as opposed to one studied from other angles such as psychology and other social sciences — and prepare budding law professors for an increasingly competitive job market. Two of the three graduating candidates declined to comment for this story, and one did not respond to a request for an interview.

The positions secured by this year’s graduates, combined with articles they have published during their Ph.D. candidacy, suggest that the program has been a success.

“[For some teaching fellowships], students are required to teach legal writing, which is something [they] will never teach again for the rest of [their] life,” Silverstein said. He added that compared to existing teaching fellowships at law schools nationwide, Yale Law School’s Ph.D. in Law degree program is much more rigorous, combining coursework, workshops and teaching requirements. The program is meant to be an addition to existing teaching and writing fellowships, not a substitute, Silverstein said.

After the Law School introduced the program, some legal scholars raised concerns that other law schools would follow suit, eventually making a doctoral degree in law a prerequisite for future professorships. Although the inaugural class of the Law School’s Ph.D. candidates has secured prestigious positions, Silverstein said the scale of program is too small to influence the job market just yet.

Silverstein said “a couple” of schools have looked into establishing a similar Ph.D. in Law program, though he does not expect these programs to come to fruition for a few years. Such a program is an expensive enterprise, he said, and a number of schools are watching carefully how Yale is doing before entering the relatively new territory.

Silverstein said what boosts students’ chances of landing jobs in legal academia is not a Ph.D. alone, but rather the writing portfolio they would accumulate during the three-year program. All three of the graduating Ph.D. candidates have published articles in major law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Amanda Shanor ’03 LAW ’09 LAW ’17, a second-year Ph.D. in law candidate, said that in the face of an increasingly competitive job market, it is not realistic to try and obtain a tenured faculty position — even at middle-range law schools — with only a J.D. degree and clerkships. One has to earn at least a Ph.D. in another discipline and be able to present a body of writing to stand out in the market, she said.

Current Ph.D. candidates interviewed agreed that the program helped them study through a specific legal angle. Traditional views hold that law is a field studied from a combination of other disciplines and not a separate field in itself. Shanor said that through Yale’s program, she has been able to work alongside prominent figures in legal scholarship and examine legal institutions and pressing questions facing the American legal academy today.

Shelley Welton LAW ’17, another second-year Ph.D. candidate, said while a J.D. degree program taught her the tools to practice law, the Ph.D. program trained her to think like a legal academic. Welton highlighted the writing workshops in the Ph.D. program as particularly useful, adding that the scholarly engagement during those workshops was much more intense than the feedback she received for her J.D. writings.

Welton added that legal scholars are still grappling with the question of whether law is a discipline in itself. While the program has taught her methods and processes related to legal analysis — providing a common language among aspiring legal scholars — there is not a common set of methodology for everyone, as different subfields in law demand different approaches, she said.

Law School students interviewed said they are aware of existing dual degree programs including a J.D. and a Ph.D. in another discipline, but said a Ph.D. in law is a better fit for aspiring legal scholars.

Kate Klonick LAW ’18, a first-year student in the program, said the Ph.D. in Law program was the best way to combine her background in legal education and her passion for psychology. Since Ph.D. training in psychology academia often takes seven years, a J.D. and Ph.D. in psychology dual degree would keep her in school for a long time.

All Ph.D. in law candidates receive a full-tuition fellowship and living stipend.

Yale Law School

Advanced professional degree candidates.

On this site, you will find information about McKinsey and our recruiting process for Advanced Professional Degree (APD) candidates. We consider APD candidates those who are PhDs, Postdocs, JDs and non-MBA Master’s students finishing programs in 2024 (with at least 4 years in between the completion of your undergrad degree and graduate degree) and medical students, interns, residents or fellows finishing programs in 2024.

If you are pursuing a master's degree and you earned an undergraduate degree fewer than four years ago, you will be considered for our business analyst role.

If you hold a bachelor’s degree and have at least four years of work experience or completed or expect to complete your master’s program four years from the time you received your bachelor’s degree, you will be considered for our associate role.

Our full-time associate role deadline is June 15, 2023. APD candidates applying to full-time roles have an anticipated graduation year of 2024.

If you are currently enrolled in school and have one summer left (Summer 2024, anticipated graduation of 2025), the deadline for our associate intern role will be Fall 2023. Those applying to intern roles will have an anticipated graduation year of 2025.

Have more questions about your candidacy or the APD application and interview process?

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I’m excited about helping law students think through their diverse career options and discover the opportunities McKinsey has to offer. Marc Brodherson JD

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Introducing the 2023-24 Yale Department of Economics Job Market Candidates!

The PhD specialization in Accounting prepares students to become accounting scholars engaged in research and teaching at the highest levels in the general areas of financial information and contracting within and across organizations. 

Yale SOM’s specialization in accounting is designed to develop strong theoretical and empirical skills. There is a heavy emphasis on original research to form a base for sustained scholarship. Co-authored research, with both faculty and fellow PhD students, is encouraged and supported.

Yale’s accounting program is small (matriculating one to two students each year), and involves informal and spontaneous frequent interactions with faculty. The program maintains a 1:1 faculty-to-student ratio. Students interact with emerging research in a host of ways, from conferences held on campus to weekly seminars where faculty and fellow PhD students present and discuss their work.

Candidates tend to pursue a broad range of research interests, helped by courses in accounting as well as in various areas of management, Department of Economics, Yale Law School, and other parts of the University. They develop fruitful relationships with other Ph.d. students, especially from the Finance PhD program.

Examples of research submitted as dissertations by students in the program:

• Intended Benefits and Unintended Consequences of Improved Performance Disclosure
• Asymmetric Inefficiency in Market Response to Non-earnings 8-K Information
• Real Earnings Management in Nonprofit Organizations
• How Does More Frequent Reporting Reduce Information Asymmetry?
• Real Earnings Management in the Financial Industry
• Accruals and price crashes
• Customer-base concentration: Implications for firm performance and capital markets
• The Treatment of Special Items in Determining CEO Cash Compensation
• Strategic Decentralization, Bargaining, and Transfer Pricing in Supply Chain Efficiency
• Keynesian Beauty Contest, Accounting Disclosure, and Market Efficiency
• Labor Unions and Management’s Incentive to Signal Declining Profitability
• Investor Expectations, Earnings Management, and Asset Prices
• Limiting Outside Directors' Liability through Charter Provisions: An Empirical Analysis
• Nickels Not Pennies: Explanations and Implications of Granularity in Analysts’ EPS Forecasts
• Auditor’s Pre-Negotiation Information, Accuracy of Financial Reports and Consulting Services
• Taxes, Debt, and Firm Value: New Evidence

Examples of research co-authored with faculty and other students:

Publications.

• Management of reported and forecast EPS, investor responses, and research implications (Management Science
• Placebo Tests of Conditional Conservatism (The Accounting Review)
• Orphans Deserve Attention: Financial Reporting in the Missing Months When Corporations Change Fiscal Year (The Accounting Review)
• Why do EPS forecast error and dispersion not vary with scale? Implications for analyst and managerial behavior (Journal of Accounting Research)
• More Evidence of Bias in the Differential Timeliness Measure of Conditional Conservatism (The Accounting Review)
• The Effect of Litigation Risk on Management Earnings Forecasts (Contemporary Accounting Research)
• Friction in Related Party Trade when a Rival is also a Customer (Management Science)
• The Joint Determination of Audit Fees, Non-audit Fees and Abnormal Accruals (Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting)

Working Papers

• Rethinking Determinants of Trading Volume at Earnings Announcements
• Auditor Change Disclosures as Signals of Earnings Management and Risk
• Individual Investor Overextrapolation
• The Value and Information Effects of Initial Loan Contract Strictness
• The Information Quality Effect of Accruals-Based Benchmark Beating: Evidence from the CDS Market
• On the Contemporaneous Reporting of Income Increasing and Income Decreasing Special Items: Initial Evidence
• Conditional conservatism: the case of goodwill impairments under SFAS 142
• The power of firm fundamentals in explaining stock returns

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Research Assistant Position at Massachusetts General Hospital

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GENERAL SUMMARY:

A research technician position is available in the laboratory of oncologist Dr. Andrew Elia at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. The candidate will assist in characterizing DNA damage response pathways necessary for maintaining genomic stability and thereby preventing cancer. This work will also focus on elucidating pathways involved in DNA damage activation of immune signaling. Overall, these studies will help to find new targets for the treatment of tumors with specific DNA repair defects and will help to improve the efficacy of combining genotoxic cancer treatments with immunotherapy. Principal investigator has strong track record of technicians placing into top medical and graduate school programs. Salary will range between $43,500 – $48,000 commensurate with experience. Position will commence between May – August 2024. Graduating seniors are encouraged to apply

PRINCIPAL DUTIES:

• Characterize novel proteins involved in DNA damage and immune signaling pathways using cell biology and biochemistry techniques (CRISPR, RNAi, western blotting, immunofluorescence, immunoprecipitation, chromatography, flow cytometry, and reporter gene assays).
• Perform standard molecular biology techniques (cloning, site-directed mutagenesis, production and purification of recombinant proteins).
• Perform tissue culture work doing plasmid transfection, retroviral transduction, and lentiviral transduction.
• Assist in CRISPR functional genomic screen to identify genes required for the selective survival of tumor cells with specific DNA repair or immune signaling defects.
• Assist with quantitative mass spectrometry proteomics to characterize novel post-translational modifications involved in the DNA damage response.
• Assist with cancer gene mouse model.
• Establish new and modify existing research techniques.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 1-3 years experience in a molecular laboratory preferred
• Self-motivated, excited by science and medicine
• Independent thinker who takes ownership of work and who performs well as a team member
• Meticulous attention to detail with excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Committed to producing accurate and high-quality work

APPLICATION : Please email your CV to Dr. Andrew Elia, MD, PhD at [email protected]

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