Strengths:
Research and publishing, academic creativity
Community of students and professors
Con law
Contracts
Faculty (availability, supportiveness)
Clinics
Architecture
Consolidation in a single building (almost)
Law revue (truly hysterical)
Special events (number and quality)
Clerkships
Freedom
Reputation
Restaurants (diversity, value)
Depth of career information
Burning Man contingent
Weaknesses:
HVAC
Noisiness of library
Safety
Untransparency, which applies also to Yale University and Yale Police (for instance, regarding campus safety)
Lack of a culture of feedback and improvement
Disconnect from rest of Yale University
Gym (worn equipment, long periods closed, rude staff, never once since 2001 can I recall seeing the equipment being cleaned)
Weather
Course selection process (I'm happy to help redesign this)
Printers
Lack of institutional culture of mission-setting, mission articulation, principle-setting, principle articulation, benchmarking, goal-setting, goal articulation, quantification of results against goals, accountability for success and failure, feedback, innovation and constantly raising the bar, so to speak read more