Sterling Law Building houses the
Yale Law School
Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...
. It is located at 127 Wall Street,
New Haven, Connecticut
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, close to the downtown area, in the heart of the Yale campus. It occupies one city block between the Hall of Graduate Studies, the Beinecke Library, Sterling Library, and the Grove Street Cemetery.
The Sterling Law Building was built in 1931 and was designed by
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers (March 3, 1867 – October 1, 1947) was an American architect. A proponent of what came to be known as Collegiate Gothic architecture, he is best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia Univer ...
. Its model follows the English
Inns of Court
The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales. There are four Inns of Court: Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple, and Middle Temple.
All barristers must belong to one of them. They have s ...
. In contains classrooms, offices, a
law library
A law library is a special library, specialist library used by Legal education, law students, lawyers, judges and their Law clerk, legal assistants, and academics in order to Legal research, research the law or its Legal history, history. Law ...
, a dining hall, a day-care center, and a courtyard.
The building is named after Yale alumnus and benefactor
John William Sterling, name partner of the New York law firm
Shearman & Sterling.
External links
Sterling Law Building
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Yale Law School
Yale University buildings
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