Hillary Clinton

===Yale Law School and postgraduate studies===
Rodham then entered [[Yale Law School]], where she was on the editorial board of the ''[[Yale Review of Law and Social Action]]''.<ref name="arkhc">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/hillary-diane-rodham-clinton-2744/|title=Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (1947–)|date=May 16, 2019|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture]]|publisher=[[Central Arkansas Library System]]|access-date=August 22, 2019}}</ref> During her second year, she worked at the [[Yale Child Study Center]],{{sfn|Gerth|Van Natta|2007|pp=42–43}} learning about new research on early childhood brain development and working as a research assistant on the seminal work, ''Beyond the Best Interests of the Child'' (1973).{{sfn|Bernstein|2007|p=75}}<ref>The authors of ''Beyond the Best Interests of the Child'' were Center director Al Solnit, Yale Law professor Joe Goldstein, and [[Anna Freud]].</ref> She also took on cases of child abuse at [[Yale–New Haven Hospital]],{{sfn|Bernstein|2007|p=75}} and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free legal advice for the poor.{{sfn|Gerth|Van Natta|2007|pp=42–43}} In the summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work at [[Marian Wright Edelman]]'s Washington Research Project, where she was assigned to Senator [[Walter Mondale]]'s [[Subcommittee on Migratory Labor]]. There she researched various [[migrant worker]]s' issues including education, health and housing.<ref>Morris 1996, pp.&nbsp;142–43.</ref> Edelman later became a significant mentor.{{sfn|Bernstein|2007|pp=71–74}} Rodham was recruited by political advisor [[Anne Wexler]] to work on the 1970 campaign of Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate [[Joseph Duffey]]. Rodham later crediting Wexler with providing her first job in politics.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/08/AR2009080800058.html|title=Anne Wexler, Political Adviser and Lobbyist, Dies at 79|author=Weil, Martin|date=August 8, 2009|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=August 22, 2019}}</ref>

In the spring of 1971, she began dating fellow law student [[Bill Clinton]]. During the summer, she interned at the [[Oakland, California]], law firm of [[Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein]]. The firm was well known for its support of [[constitutional right]]s, [[civil liberties]] and [[Far-left politics|radical causes]] (two of its four partners were current or former [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party members]]);{{sfn|Bernstein|2007|pp=82–83}} Rodham worked on child custody and other cases.{{efn|Research by ''[[The New York Sun]]'' in 2007 found it unclear exactly which cases beyond child custody ones Rodham worked on at the Treuhaft firm.<ref name="nys-rad"/> Anti-Clinton writers such as [[Barbara Olson]] would later charge Hillary Clinton with never repudiating Treuhaft's ideology, and for retaining social and political ties with his wife and fellow communist [[Jessica Mitford]].<ref>Olson 1999, pp.&nbsp;56–57.</ref> Further ''Sun'' research revealed that Mitford and Hillary Clinton were not close, and had a falling-out over a 1980 Arkansas prisoner case.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/national/hillary-clintons-left-hook/67002/ |title=Hillary Clinton's Left Hook |author=Gerstein, Josh |work=[[The New York Sun]] |date=November 27, 2007}}</ref>}} Clinton canceled his original summer plans and moved to live with her in California;<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/national/clintons-berkeley-summer-of-love/66982/ |title=The Clintons' Berkeley Summer of Love |author=Gerstein, Josh |work=[[The New York Sun]] |date=November 26, 2007}}</ref> the couple continued [[cohabitating|living together]] in New Haven when they returned to law school.<ref name="nys-rad">{{Cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/national/hillary-clintons-radical-summer/66933/ |title=Hillary Clinton's Radical Summer |author=Gerstein, Josh |work=[[The New York Sun]] |date=November 26, 2007}}</ref> The following summer, [[1972 United States presidential election in Texas#McGovern campaign|Rodham and Clinton campaigned in Texas]] for unsuccessful [[George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign|1972 Democratic presidential candidate]] [[George McGovern]].{{sfn|Gerth|Van Natta|2007|pp=48–49}} She received a [[Juris Doctor]] degree from Yale in 1973,<ref name="nyt-bio">{{Cite news |url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html |title=Hillary Rodham Clinton |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=April 13, 2008 |first=Helene |last=Cooper |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428044353/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html |archive-date=April 28, 2008}}</ref> having stayed on an extra year to be with Clinton.{{sfn|Bernstein|2007|p=89}} He first proposed marriage to her following graduation, but she declined, uncertain if she wanted to tie her future to his.{{sfn|Bernstein|2007|p=89}}

Rodham began a year of postgraduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.<ref name="nfll">{{cite web |title=First Lady Biography: Hillary Clinton |url=http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=43 |publisher=[[National First Ladies' Library]] |access-date=August 22, 2006 |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414204023/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=43 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In late 1973, her first scholarly article, "Children Under the Law", was published in the ''[[Harvard Educational Review]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rodham |first=Hillary |year=1973 |title=Children Under the Law |journal=[[Harvard Educational Review]] |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=487–514 |doi=10.17763/haer.43.4.e14676283875773k }}</ref> Discussing the new [[children's rights movement]], the article stated that "child citizens" were "powerless individuals"<ref>Troy 2006, p.&nbsp;21.</ref> and argued that children should not be considered equally [[Competence (law)|incompetent]] from birth to attaining legal age, but instead that courts should presume competence on a case-by-case basis, except when there is evidence otherwise.<ref name="nyt082492">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/24/us/1992-campaign-issues-women-families-legal-scholars-see-distortion-attacks.html |title=Legal Scholars See Distortion in Attacks on Hillary Clinton |author=Lewin, Tamar |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 24, 1992}}</ref> The article became frequently cited in the field.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/30351/0000753.pdf |title=What Hillary Rodham Clinton really said about children's rights and child policy |author=Lindsey, Duncan |author2=Sarri, Rosemary C. |journal=[[Children and Youth Services Review]] |volume=14 |number=6 |year=1992 |pages=473–83 |doi=10.1016/0190-7409(92)90001-C |hdl=2027.42/30351 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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