 After Stanford , Booker was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford , where he earned an honors degree in United States history in 1994 as a member of The Queen 's College . He earned his Juris Doctor in 1997 from Yale Law School , where he operated free legal clinics for low @-@ income residents of New Haven , Connecticut . At Yale , Booker was a founding member of the Chai Society ( now the Eliezer Society ) , was a Big Brother with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America , and was active in the National Black Law Students Association . 
