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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m in a field completely unrelated to law but everyone knows Yale is better than Harvard for law school. YLS is incredibly prestigious. Not to say Harvard isn’t prestigious, but I know many people who have attended, but only know one YLS grad and he was a Rhodes Scholar.[/quote]

I mean, I'm sure Harvard Law has a lot of Rhodes Scholars too.  But what kind of field are you in where that's completely unrelated to law but puts you into contact with so many people who have attended H/Y law schools?  [/quote]

+1.  More than 200.  Every year HLS announces the number of Rhodes in its student profile.  For the class of 2026 it was two Rhodes.  https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/.  Most law firms prefer HLS grads over Yale (and many judges too) because the Yales are too left, too professorial and too much in the clouds.  https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/[/quote]

Honestly though, HLS' curriculum is every bit as theoretical and professorial as YLS.  It's always rated higher than YLS by practitioners/judges though, for some reason.  [/quote]

HLS classes are notorious for focusing on political and economic theory and ignoring any kind of black-letter law.  Their students, together with Yale students, have truly the worst legal preparation of probably any law school in America.  I mean it's really that bad.  I suspect that this is by design.  [/quote]
Makes sense in my non-legal brain. Supreme Court justices are kind of like appointed legal theorists with certain ideologies, so might as well cater to that kind of thinking when your alum are in that position or on the court of appeals or become politicians or business leaders. [/quote]

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