Carol Rose Conference and Celebration was held in November of 2005 in honor of the retirement of Professor Carol Rose, Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization. Participants included some of the leading legal scholars in the United States.
Connecticut Case Datasets, available for sale to the public by the state of Connecticut, were purchased by a Yale Law student doing research with Professor Robert Ellickson ’66 into the Connecticut judicial system. The datasets, which contain information on the status and disposition of civil and family cases in Connecticut, will be used for statistical analysis of cases over the past ten years. Results will be shared with other members of the Yale Law School community.
Cooperation and Conflict Experiments are designed to increase understanding of the rationality of altruism. These experiments, conducted by Professor Daniel Markovits ’00, investigate whether people who give altruistically do so in a consistent way, while attempting to identify the rules that govern their giving. Possible policy applications include revising the calculus of cost-benefit analysis and changing the means by which tax policy encourages charitable giving.
Cory Booker ’97, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, addressed the tenth annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium with a keynote titled “An Urban Mayor’s Perspective on Public Interest Advocacy.”
Cultural Cognition Project, overseen by Professor Dan Kahan, conducts Internet-based surveys and uses the data to explore how cultural orientation affects people’s views on political issues. In March 2007, the Project released results of a study investigating public perceptions of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology.
Death Penalty Empirical Study, conducted by Yale Law students as part of Professor John Donohue’s Empirical Law and Economics course, aims to study empirically whether and to what extent the death penalty has a deterrence effect. The study employs a mix of survey tactics to ascertain what knowledge individuals have about the death penalty within their given jurisdictions and in what way that knowledge affects their behavior.
Graduate Works-in-Progress Symposium, titled “Next Generation Legal Scholarship,” was held in April 2007 and featured papers by Yale Law graduate students that were critiqued by Yale Law School graduates currently on the law faculty at other schools.
Hurricane Katrina Relief Law Clinic and Project overseen by Professor Robert Solomon enabled Yale Law students to represent clients impacted by Hurricane Katrina and provide support to organizations in the affected areas. Among other things, Clinic students worked with lawyers in Louisiana to defend the rights of the incarcerated; authored pamphlets to explain housing rights to citizens; and helped found an education organization to support new charter schools that would educate children returning to New Orleans.
Law and Globalization Workshop, which was hosted one semester by Professor Oona Hathaway ’97 and another by Professor Alec Stone Sweet, focuses on the relationship, often reciprocal, between (1) global politics and economics, and (2) the evolution of international and transnational law. Guest scholars have included Professor Giacinto Canannea of Rome University, Professor Wayne Sandholtz of the University of California-Irvine, and Professor Rachel Brewster of the University of Chicago School of Law.
Legitimacy and Policing Study conducted by Professor Tracey Meares seeks to determine how individuals understand and evaluate police-citizen interactions and how they perceive the legitimacy of the police. Results are intended to improve understanding of the key factors influencing public views about how the police exercise their authority, leading to policy recommendations that could bridge the confidence gap between minority communities and the police who serve them.
National Litigation Project Summer Fellowships offered two Yale Law students the opportunity to work with Professor Michael Wishnie ’93 and the National Litigation Project of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. The Fellows assisted in litigating complex civil liberties cases; conducting original research on issues central to debates regarding the rights of Guantanamo detainees; and developing legal challenges regarding the actions of U.S. contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Oral History Project overseen by Yale Law School’s Office of Public Affairs is a continuation of an oral history video project begun in 1982 in which senior or emeriti faculty members at Yale Law School are interviewed by junior faculty members in their field.
Pregnancy Discrimination Project proposed by Professor William Eskridge ’78 is a two-year examination of pregnancy discrimination and the “evolution of equality” in the workplace. It includes the collection of oral histories of remarkable women who challenged their second-class citizenship based on pregnancy; the holding of symposiums and workshops; and the publication of a book.
Roman Rare Book Collection Project funded the acquisition, restoration, processing and preservation of a valuable collection of 1600 rare Roman and canon law books from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Bringing this rich collection to the Lillian Goldman Law Library provides Yale scholars and the broader community of researchers with unique insight into the far reaches of legal history.
Ruebhausen Academic Fellowships, awarded annually to two law school graduates, provides them with the time, mentorship, and environment to develop outstanding legal scholarship. The expectation is that they will be competitive for tenure-track positions at leading law schools by the end of their two-year Fellowship term. Recently-appointed Fellows are focusing on Chinese legal history, and democracy and legal ethics.
Workplace Theory and Policy Seminar conducted by Professors Robert Gordon and Vicki Schultz assembled top legal scholars to examine the theories and policies of work and work-related institutions. Topics included The Origins and Reproduction of Wal-Mart’s Managerial Culture; Supply-Chains, Workers’ Chains and the New World of Retail Supremacy; The Future of Disability Law; and Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World.
Young International Law Scholars Roundtable organized by Professor Oona Hathaway ’97 brought together young international scholars from around the country to discuss issues at the cutting edge of legal scholarship. It was held in conjunction with the Fifth Annual Young Scholars Conference on “The ‘New’ New Haven School: International Law—Past, Present & Future,” hosted by the Yale Journal of International Law.