X.A   Description

The primary educational purpose of the Yale Law School is to train lawyers; its primary scholarly role is to encourage research in law. Throughout much of the School's history, its teachers, students, and deans have taken a broad view of the role of law and lawyers in society. The School has sought to train lawyers for public service and teaching as well as for private practice and to advance inquiry at the boundaries of the law as well as to inculcate knowledge at the core. This professional and academic orientation is enriched by a setting hospitable to a wide variety of intellectual currents and is designed to produce lawyers who are creative, sensitive, and open to new ideas.