Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Yale Law School News
Alumni Weekend
2012
– "Entertainment
and the Law"
Justice Ginsburg to Give Inaugural
Gruber Lecture
 We
hope you will return to YLS to see
old friends and make new ones, meet
current students, wander familiar
hallways, gather in the courtyard,
catch up with a favorite professor,
and enjoy meals together in Commons
and other eateries. Highlights of
this year’s Alumni Weekend include
Friday’s Inaugural Gruber
Distinguished Lecture in Women’s
Rights, featuring U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
If you haven’t
registered for Alumni Weekend
already, you can do so online until
midnight (eastern time) on October 4
or in person during the reunion.
This year’s reunion weekend will
take place in New Haven on October
19-21, 2012. All YLS alumni are
invited to attend, and classes
ending in 2s and 7s will be
celebrating reunions with Saturday
dinners, Sunday brunches, and other
special activities. Panels will be
devoted to the theme “Entertainment
and the Law.” A
full schedule of events along
with details such as
hotel information is posted on
the
Alumni Weekend website.
Ford Foundation
Commits Grant to Inaugural
Fellowship Program
 Yale
Law School has received a grant from
the
Ford Foundation to offer 25 Yale
Law students an unprecedented chance
to gain experience on the frontlines
of public interest law next summer.
Launched in September, the
inaugural Ford Foundation Law School
Public Interest Fellowship Program
is designed to connect highly
motivated and accomplished law
students to substantive, ten-week
placements with the foundation's
grantee organizations around the
world, working to improve the lives
of others through legal analysis,
litigation and public policy
advocacy.
More…
The Class of 2015
is Welcomed to Yale Law School
Members of the 201st
class of new students at Yale Law
School hail from 10 different
countries, 35 different states, and
68 different undergraduate
institutions and speak 35 different
languages. Together they hold 57
advanced graduate degrees in
subjects ranging from Applied
Microeconomic Analysis to Opera.
Among them are a published novelist,
a skilled archer, an award-winning
poet, a beauty queen, a juggler, an
amateur boxer, a dog trainer, a
Shakespearean actor, and a trained
vegan chef. They have served as
analysts at the FCC, the Department
of the Treasury, the New Jersey
Department of Education, and the
Defense Intelligence Agency and have
advised leaders ranging from Newark
Mayor Cory Booker ’97 to the
President of the Kurdistan Region in
Iraq.
More…
Does Tingey Rhyme With Dinghy?
Yale Law Team Tackles
Hard-to-Pronounce Supreme Court Case
Names
 A
couple of years ago, it occurred to
Yale Law School Visiting Lecturer
Eugene Fidell that a pronouncing
dictionary of Supreme Court case
names might be “the rare example of
legal scholarship that was both
useful and fun.”
Fidell assembled a group of Yale Law
students who put together a list of
potential names to include and the
group began working on a “Pronouncing
Dictionary of the Supreme Court of
the United States.”
Methodically, they whittled the list
down from approximately 700
candidates for mispronunciation,
discarding names such as “Kahanamoku,”
“Laborde,” and “Nyquist” that could
reasonably be sounded out, but
keeping trickier ones such as “Tingey,”
“Bakke,” and “Vyfhuis.” The
pronouncing dictionary (which was
featured on NPR’s All Things
Considered) was completed
in August.
More…
Upcoming Alumni
Events
Regional groups across the U.S.
have a variety of upcoming events
planned for area alums. From Chicago
to Boston to New York City to
Washington, DC, to Los Angeles,
Portland, and San Francisco, alumni
gather regularly for theater events,
dinner talks by local area alums,
happy hours, faculty talks, and
athletic events.
Upcoming alumni events include:
• The YLSA of Washington, DC, will
hold a session on Friday, October
26, at WilmerHale on Yale Law
Women’s new study on gender dynamics
at the Law School.
• The Yale Law School Center for the
Study of Corporate Law invites
alumni to the
Sullivan & Cromwell Conference on
Challenges in Global Financial
Services, which will be held at
the Law School on Friday, November
2.
Please visit the
YLS Alumni Events web page
frequently for full details on
upcoming events.
News from Student Organizations
Many of the student organizations at
the Law School have their own web
pages with information about recent
and upcoming events. A list of these
student organizations and links to
their pages can be found
online.
Yale Law Journal Reception to be
Held During Alumni Weekend
The Yale Law Journal is pleased
to announce a reception for alumni
on Saturday, October 20, from 3-4:15
pm, during the Yale Law School
Alumni Weekend. The reception will
be held in the YLJ offices on the
fourth floor of the Sterling Law
Building.
YLJ would also like to invite alumni
to sign up for its
biannual alumni newsletter and
its
monthly publicity newsletter.
Please direct any questions to
alumni@yalelawjournal.org.
APALSA/NALSA/SALSA Alumni Dinner
Save the date! On April 12, 2013, the Asian
Pacific American Law Students
Association, the Native
American Law Students Association (formerly
PANA), and the South Asian Law
Students Association will be hosting
their Biannual Alumni Banquet. The
Hon. Goodwin Liu ’98, Associate
Justice of the California Supreme
Court, will be guest of honor for
the event. All alumni are invited to
attend. Please contact Aditi
Eleswarapu for more information.
BLSA Alumni Dinner
This spring the Yale Black Law
Students Association will host its
fifth Alumni Dinner. The Alumni
Dinner will honor a distinguished
alumnus with the Jane M. Bolin '31
Service Award, in memory of YLS
graduate Jane Matilda Bolin. Alumni
will have the opportunity to
reconnect with their classmates and
meet current BLSA students. Details
of the event will be available on
the
YBLSA website, and alumni
interested in attending should email
Jeannette Figg.
Critical Race Theory: From
the Academy to the Community
Conference
On February 8-9, 2013, Yale Law School
will host an academic conference
titled “Critical Race Theory: From
the Academy to the Community." The
conference is sponsored by the Zelia
& Oscar Ruebhausen and Debevoise &
Plimpton Student Fund at Yale Law
School. The conference will convene
leading academic scholars, legal
practitioners, andcommunity leaders
to examine the ways in which
critical race theory can be applied
to scholarly work, legal practice,
social justice advocacy, and
community-based movements. If you
are interested in participating,
please contact coordinators Christopher
Lapinig, Jamelia
Morgan, and Marbre
Stahly-Butts.
LLSA Alumni Dinner
This spring,
Yale Law School's Latina/o Law
Students’ Association (LLSA)
will host its Eighth Annual Public
Service Award Dinner. The dinner is
a prestigious ceremony initiated by
LLSA in order to recognize and
celebrate a Latina/o alumnus for his
or her distinguished record of
leadership and public service. The
dinner brings together current
students, faculty, alumni, and
administrators to reconnect and
share news of LLSA’s activities and
accomplishments. Please contact
LLSA's co-chairs,
Andrea Nill Sanchez and
Roberto Saldana, if you are
interested in attending the dinner.
YLBS Conference
The Yale Law and Business Society is
organizing Yale's inaugural law and
business conference, to be held on
February 15, 2013. The conference
will focus on contemporary issues in
business ethics—from financial
regulation to natural resource
industries—and will feature a
mixture of panel discussions and
keynote lectures. Confirmed speakers
include: SEC Commissioner Troy
Paredes, UC Berkeley Professor Neil
Fligstein, and Paul Brest, President
of the Hewlett Foundation. Please
contact
Bob Borek for further details
about the conference.
Rebellious Lawyering Conference
RebLaw invites alumni to the
Nineteenth Annual Rebellious
Lawyering Conference, which will
take place at Yale Law School on
February 22-23, 2013. The RebLaw
Conference is the nation's largest
student-run public interest
conference, and brings together
practitioners, law students, and
community advocates from around the
country each year to discuss
innovative, progressive approaches
to law and social change. This
year's keynote speaker will be Bryan
Stevenson, Executive Director of
Equal Justice Initiative, who has
won national acclaim for his work
challenging bias against the poor
and people of color in the criminal
justice system. Conference
information and registration will be
available
online soon. For additional
information, please contact the
RebLaw Directors at
rebellious.law.questions@gmail.com.
Yale Environmental Law Association
Conference
The Yale Environmental Law
Association invites alumni to the
third annual New Directions in
Environmental Law Conference, taking
place March 2, 2013, at Yale Law
School. This year's conference will
focus on systems thinking and
interconnectivity, probing legal
responses to the challenges of
scarcity and excess that unite
today’s changing world. Potential
discussion topics include food
sustainability and access,
international governance, smart
growth and land use, corporate
accountability, environmental
justice, human rights and the
environment, and environmental
courts. For additional information,
please contact conference chair
Casey Arnold.
Also of Note
Ph.D. Program Slated to Begin in
Fall 2013; Applications Due December
15
Yale Law School's new Ph.D. Program
is now
accepting applications for the
2013 academic year. Those interested
in learning more about the program
are invited to review the
Ph.D. Web pages, read about
what differentiates the Yale Ph.D.
from other post-graduate programs,
and contact
Gordon Silverstein, Assistant
Dean for the Graduate Programs, with
any questions. Please note that
applications for the fall of 2013
are due by December 15, 2012.
YLS Fellowship Opportunities
Yale Law School offers a number of
post-graduate fellowships for alumni
interested in pursuing careers in
academia or in public interest law,
in the United States and abroad.
Some fellowships provide time for
research and writing; others allow
graduates to work in public interest
positions with NGOs, international
courts and tribunals, government
agencies, and legal services
organizations. Application deadlines
vary; some are as early as November
12. More information and application
materials are available on the YLS
Post-Graduate Fellowships page.
Jobs at YLS
There are a number of fellowship and
job opportunities available at YLS.
The Law School is currently looking
for an Associate Dean for Finance
and Administration and an Associate
Dean for Development. Please check
the
YLS Employment & Fellowship
Opportunities page and the
Job Posting Resources page for
more information.
An E-book and an Oral History — Two
Firsts for the Lillian Goldman Law
Library
The Lillian Goldman Law Library
recently published its first e-book:
Before Roe v. Wade by YLS
Lecturer Linda Greenhouse and
Professor Reva Siegel. It can be
downloaded for free from the
library's website.
The Library has also recently
published the first volume in the
Yale Law School Oral History Series.
A Conversation with Abraham S.
Goldstein (by Bonnie Collier)
will soon be available as a free
download from the library's website.
Additional oral histories featuring
former YLS Deans Lou Pollak and
Harry Wellington will soon be
released. These also will be
published in both print and e-book
formats.
YLS Student Journals Now Available
For Purchase Online
Many of Yale Law School’s student
journals are now available for
purchase online. Subscriptions and
back issue purchases are now
available at
http://yalelawschool.myshopify.com/.
Titles currently available are:
Yale Journal of International Law,
Yale Human Rights and Development
Law Journal,
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law
and Ethics,
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism,
Yale Journal of Law and Humanities,
Yale Law and Policy Review and,
coming soon, Yale Journal on
Regulation. To subscribe to any of
these titles, renew your
subscription, or purchase individual
issues, please visit our online
catalog. Orders placed online are
processed the same day. Orders are
also still accepted by mail for all
Journals at the following address:
Yale Law School Student Journals,
c/o Joseph Lynch, P.O. Box 208215,
New Haven, CT 06520-8215
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Videos and Podcasts of Recent
Lectures
Recent additions to the Law School’s
streaming video and
podcast collections include the
2012 Judge Jon O. Newman Lecture
delivered by the Honorable Kate
O’Regan, former justice of the
Constitutional Court of South
Africa. Justice O’Regan spoke about
“A Forum for Reason: Reflections on
the Role and Work of South Africa’s
Constitutional Court.”
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