Thanks to Generous Donation, 77 Yale Law Students Can Access LAP’s Database for Free This Year
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
For Immediate Release
Contact: Aliza Shatzman, 267-481-2095, aliza.shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org
Thanks to Generous Donation, 77 Yale Law Students Can Access LAP’s Database for Free This Year
Yale Law School cannot prohibit students from accessing The Legal Accountability Project’s (LAP) Clerkships Database, as much as they might like to. And, thanks to a generous donation, students don’t have to pay to access the platform this year, either.
Thanks to Eric Poulin’s (Poulin Willey) generous contribution, the next 77 YLS students who subscribe to LAP’s Clerkships Database using the registration code “YLS Gift Subscription” can access the platform for free this year.
Following YLS’s reprehensible decision to prohibit student organizations from using their funds to subscribe to LAP’s Clerkships Database on behalf of their members, and LAP President Aliza Shatzman’s article in Above the Law describing YLS’s pretextual arguments for this action, donors stepped up to cover the Database cost for students this year.
Cost should not be a barrier to accessing candid information about judicial clerkships. But running a legal technology platform is not free. We hope more donors will step forward and donate on behalf of students at other law schools, thereby ensuring broad access to this valuable information. Furthermore, donors’ support sends a message - one that ripples throughout the legal profession - that law schools’ chokehold on clerkship advising and information-sharing is officially over.
YLS students can register for Database access at survey.legalaccountabilityproject.org. On the registration page, where the platform asks where students learned about LAP, YLS students should note “YLS Gift Subscription.” YLS students, like all Clerkships Database users, are required to upload student identification to verify their identities.
If you would like to donate on behalf of law students at your alma mater, reach out to LAP’s President and Founder, Aliza Shatzman, at Aliza.Shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org. LAP is grateful to our donors, who help sustain our critical work on behalf of law students, law clerks, and the legal profession generally.