Master of Laws

Applicants to the LL.M. program at Yale Law School must have earned their law degree at an accredited U.S. law school or a non-U.S. law school with substantially equivalent standards.

Applicants to the LL.M. program must have received, or expect to receive by the summer before their intended matriculation at Yale Law School, a juris doctor degree with high rank from a law school that is a member of the Association of American Law Schools or approved by the American Bar Association. If from outside the United States, applicants must have graduated, or expect to graduate by the summer before their intended matriculation at Yale Law School, with high rank from a law school or law faculty with standards substantially equivalent to those of U.S. law schools. Ordinarily, applicants must have earned, or expect to earn, a degree that entitles them to practice law in their home countries

English Language requirements: The minimum score on the TOEFL is 610 on the paper-based test or 102 on the Internet-based test.