5 Facts About Yale Law

1. Yale Law becomes the first university in the US to award Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

2. Yale Law is founded in nearby Saybrook, CT as the Collegiate School to educate students for "Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.

3. Yale Law school's 15th dean, Harold Koh, made human rights a focus of the law school's work, building on a tradition that had developed over the previous two decades.

4. Yale Law took on a former student, Samuel J Hitchcock as a law partner, and Hitchcock became the proprietor of the New Haven Law School, joined by David Daggett in 1824.

5. Yale Law has produced a significant number of luminaries in law and politics, including United States presidents Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton and former US secretary of state and presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.