June 18, 2013
The Obama administration approves the release of records identifying Guantanamo Bay detainees following a FOIA request from the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School.
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May 23, 2013
The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School has published a new report,
I’m Going to Move Forward: Stories of Change from Men Imprisoned as Children in Connecticut.More...
April 22, 2013
Forty-two students and recent graduates have been named recipients of public interest fellowships for 2013-2014.
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April 3, 2013
Students from the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at YLS and the Civil Justice Clinic at Quinnipiac University School of Law have published a report on Connecticut's children serving long prison sentences.
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March 22, 2013
Muneer I. Ahmad is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Charanya Krishnaswami ’13 is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School.
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March 22, 2013
Students from Yale Law School’s San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP) describe their experiences working on landmark same-sex marriage case.
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February 19, 2013
Students from the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic discuss a recently filed petition with the High Court seeking to allow a man wrongly convicted of rape to clear his name.
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January 4, 2013
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic has brought a Freedom of Information Act action against the Drug Enforcement Administration to compel the agency to release aerial surveillance footage of a 2010 raid in Jamaica that led to the deaths of more than 70 civilians, including one U.S. citizen.
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January 2, 2013
In a victory for students in the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, a federal judge has rejected an attempt by the Department of Defense to shield investigatory records from review under the Freedom of Information Act.
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December 3, 2012
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School has filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Vietnam veterans who were denied honorable discharges due to undiagnosed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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November 12, 2012
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy held a ceremonial bill signing at Yale Law School on Veterans Day Monday, Nov. 12, signing among several veterans’ bills one in which Yale Law School students played a major role.
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October 2, 2012
The City of New Haven and the Community and Economic Development Clinic at Yale Law School have released the first-ever New Haven Community Impact Report Card that ranks banks operating in the City on 30 categories.
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September 27, 2012
The New Haven County Bar Association has selected Clinical Visiting Lecturer David Rosen ’69 to receive its 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award.
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September 13, 2012
The U. S. Court of Appeals for Veterans’ Claims will be sitting at Yale Law School on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.
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August 20, 2012
The Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School has been honored with awards from LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association for its work on behalf of the Latino community.
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July 19, 2012
Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic has released a report on the ongoing trafficking and abuse of foreign workers hired every year through U.S. government contracts to work in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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July 13, 2012
In a report they wrote as part of their work in the Community & Economic Development Clinic, Hanna-Ruth Gustafsson ’12 and Elizabeth Kelly ’12 explore how innovations developed in Curitiba, Brazil, can help address the challenges of urban growth.
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May 24, 2012
Fiona Doherty ’99 will join the Yale Law faculty in July 2012 as a Clinical Associate Professor of Law.
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May 23, 2012
Junta for Progressive Action and Yale Law School’s Transnational Development Clinic have released a first-of-its kind study of remittance and banking practices among immigrants in New Haven.
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May 11, 2012
A bill to help state veterans charged with low-level criminal offenses avoid incarceration and get back on the right track has been approved by the Connecticut House and Senate, thanks to the efforts of four members of the Veterans Legal Services Clinic.
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March 28, 2012
The YLS Veterans Legal Services Clinic represented the Vietnam Veterans of America in federal Freedom of Information litigation to obtain records that reveal the military has executed hundreds of illegal Personality Disorder discharges.
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March 19, 2012
The Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic will sponsor a symposium on March 28, 2012, titled “Interpreting Federal Statutes: The Dysfunctional Dialogue between the Courts and Congress.”
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March 14, 2012
Two Yale Law students were acknowledged recently for their work with the San Francisco city attorney’s office on a noted gas pipeline lawsuit.
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February 15, 2012
Eleven New Haven residents represented by YLS’s Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic have achieved a landmark settlement in their civil rights lawsuit against the government.
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February 8, 2012
In a victory for both Yale Law fellow and lecturer Emily Bazelon ’00 and Yale Law School clinic students, a Massachusetts Superior Court recently ordered disclosure of a settlement agreement between the town of South Hadley, Mass., and the family of a teenager whose 2010 suicide after being bullied at school attracted national news attention.
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January 10, 2012
Michael Wishnie ’93, a clinical professor of law at Yale Law School and director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, has been named the William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
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December 6, 2011
Students from the Community and Economic Development Clinic at Yale Law School recently helped their client achieve a 14-year-old dream of becoming the sole owner of a shopping plaza on Whalley Avenue in New Haven.
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December 6, 2011
In a victory for freedom of information and Yale Law School clinic students, the New York Supreme Court on Nov. 23 ordered the disclosure of emails between New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office and a controversial former New York City schools chancellor.
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December 5, 2011
Jim Silk ’89 is Clinical Professor of Law in Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and Executive Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Amanda Elbogen ’13, Stephanie Keene ’12 and Stephanie Safdi ’12 are J.D. candidates at Yale Law School.
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November 22, 2011
Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic was at the U.S. Supreme Court in November presenting oral arguments in the case, Rehberg v. Paulk.
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November 18, 2011
The Illinois Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling ordering the disclosure of the identity of a person who had criticized a political candidate on a newspaper website.
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October 13, 2011
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School is representing a navy veteran suing for veterans’ benefits she claims were denied because of her same-sex marriage.
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September 21, 2011
Hundreds of laid-off Connecticut factory workers have won access to critical job training and income support with legal assistance from Yale Law School's Transnational Development Clinic.
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September 16, 2011
The Eugene and Carol Ludwig Center for Community and Economic Development has submitted a white paper to the Obama Administration offering ideas on how to address the mortgage foreclosure crisis.
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August 3, 2011
The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School has released a report finding that Cambodian garment factories use short-term employment contracts to exploit workers.
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June 10, 2011
Students in the Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic played a key role in the recent indictment of 20 former members of the El Salvadoran military.
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April 6, 2011
The new Transnational Development Clinic at Yale Law School is tackling important issues such as street vendor rights, remittances, and assistance to displaced workers.
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April 1, 2011
On April 7, 2011, the Transnational Development Clinic at Yale Law School will host a panel discussion on the conditions and legal challenges faced by street vendors around the world.
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January 31, 2011
The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic recently completed a study of gender-based violence in southern Sudan.
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December 17, 2010
Jean Koh Peters will present her inaugural lecture as the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law on January 24, 2011.
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December 14, 2010
Yale Law School can add the mortgage foreclosure crisis to the long list of critical issues its students have had the opportunity to get involved in.
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December 3, 2010
Students in the Law School’s Community and Economic Development Clinic have drafted a report aimed at helping to reform the United States Farm Bill.
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November 24, 2010
Students in Yale Law School’s Community and Economic Development Clinic played a key role in the development and launch of New Haven Promise, which offers free college tuition to eligible New Haven students.
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November 12, 2010
The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals will be held December 6 in the Yale Law School Auditorium.
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November 11, 2010
Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum and
The New York Times prevailed in a New York Federal District Court when a Magistrate Judge granted a motion for summary judgment in a Freedom of Information Act suit.
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October 4, 2010
Yale Law School has launched a new clinic to train students to address the needs of Connecticut’s military veterans.
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September 30, 2010
Members of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic have joined the legal team for the survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide seeking justice at the trial next year of four former senior Khmer Rouge leaders.
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September 2, 2010
Yale Law students in the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project played an important role in the Proposition 8 marriage case in California.
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July 22, 2010
Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum scored a victory in July when a New York state appellate court ruled in the case
Mosallem v. Berenson.
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July 14, 2010
A new ethics clinic to be offered at Yale Law School was inspired in part by the efforts of two Yale Law students who helped research an amicus brief in a recent Supreme Court case.
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June 22, 2010
Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic is celebrating victories in several recent Supreme Court cases.
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April 1, 2010
Students from Yale Law School’s clinical programs and attorneys from the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center recently teamed up to assist more than a dozen Haitian refugees being held indefinitely at a detention center in South Florida.
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March 1, 2010
Yale’s Environmental Protection Clinic has partnered with Islands First to help small Pacific islands in their quest for action on climate change.
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January 18, 2010
Yale Law School Professor Emeritus Daniel J. Freed ’51, a pioneer in the criminal justice process and a key figure in the development of clinical education at the Law School, died January 17, 2010, at age 82.
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August 28, 2009
The Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic and the Yale Law Journal Online will host a half-day conference, "Important Questions of Federal Law: Assessing the Supreme Court's Case Selection Process,” on September 18, 2009.
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June 4, 2009
Muneer I. Ahmad, professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law and a specialist in immigration law and international human rights, will join the Yale Law School faculty on July 1, 2009, as a clinical professor of law.
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April 6, 2009
Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic scored another victory on April 1 in the case
Harbison v. Bell.More...
March 4, 2009
The Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic won its second victory March 3 in the case,
Negusie v Holder.
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February 3, 2009
Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic achieved its first victory before the High Court in January in the case,
Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee.
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January 22, 2009
On March 5-6, 2009, the 12th annual Liman Colloquium will celebrate forty years of clinical education at Yale Law School.
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April 25, 2008
On April 22, Yale Law School’s Education Adequacy Clinic argued before the Connecticut Supreme Court that all Connecticut students have the constitutional right to an adequate education.
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January 11, 2008
Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic presents its oral argument in
United States v. Rodriquez on January 15.
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March 27, 2007
Yale Law School’s Community and Economic Development Clinic has helped The Hannah Gray Residential Care Home launch a new website and has provided a number of other services to the Home.
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February 2, 2007
On February 2, 2007, Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic filed a merits brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a high-profile Establishment Clause case,
Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation.More...
December 1, 2006
Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney J. L. Pottenger Jr. ’75 has been honored by Connecticut Voices for Children for his work in developing a partnership between Connecticut Voices and Yale Legislative Services.
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November 30, 2006
On November 14, 2006, St. Luke’s Senior Housing, Inc.—a client of the Community and Economic Development (CED) Clinic—broke ground on Josephine Jarvis Gray Senior Housing in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood.
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November 28, 2006
Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic National Litigation Project sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court in New Haven last Tuesday, seeking records of a program known as “Operation Front Line.”
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