Yale Law snubs now famous graduate JD Vance
Normally, it would be a big deal for a graduate to be nominated for the county’s second-highest political office, but Yale Law School’s website makes no mention of Ohio Senator JD—and hasn’t since 2017. The Daily Beast reports.
Instead, the prestigious school on Tuesday highlighted a post about a Taylor Swift reading group rather than the news that Vance was nominated as former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate.
Vance, 39, graduated from Yale Law School in 2013 and spent most of his career in venture capital before being elected to the Senate in 2022. Before running for the Senate, Vance’s claim to fame was writing Hillbilly Elegy in 2016,A successful novel that was adapted into a critically panned Netflix film, it describes his childhood in poverty in the countryside.
Vance gave a lecture about his book on the Yale University campus in 2017, and that was the last time its existence was acknowledged by Yale Law University, the Daily Beast reports.
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Yale Law College did not provide comment to the Daily Beast regarding Vance’s nomination and the lack of coverage surrounding his nomination. However, a former Yale student was happy to share his thoughts on the matter with the media outlet.
“Yale Law School should be ashamed of itself,” book critic Michiko Kakutani, who graduated from Yale Law in 1976, told The Daily Beast. “It has now given us JD Vance, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, John Yoo and Alan Dershowitz.”
If Vance becomes the next vice president, The Daily Beast points out that another prominent Yale Law School graduate and political hopeful is vying for his seat: Vivek Ramaswamy, who recently ran against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.
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