The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will hear oral arguments in the following cases on November 25 at Yale Law School. More... The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will hear oral arguments at Yale Law School on November 25, 2008. More... Yale Law School Professor Jay Katz died Monday, November 17, 2008, in New Haven. Katz was the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry and Harvey L. Karp Professorial Lecturer in Law and Psychoanalysis at Yale Law School.
More... A lecture titled “Genius in a Bottle:  Perfume as a Copyrightable Creative Work?” will be held Monday, November 17, at the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall. More... The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals will be held December 11 in the Yale Law School Auditorium. More... YLS professor Tony Kronman ’75 and SOM professor Constance Bagley will co-host a conversation with former GE executive Ben Heineman ’71 on December 2 at Yale Law School. More... Jean-Marie Guéhenno will deliver the 2008-2009 Sherrill Lecture December 15, speaking on “Peacekeeping: Testing the Limits of the Concept of an International Community.” More... A World War I chaplain’s chalice with ties to a noted Supreme Court case has been donated to Yale Law School and is on display in the Alumni Reading Room. More... Akhil Reed Amar, newly designated as Sterling Professor of Law, is a scholar of constitutional law, the Bill of Rights and criminal procedure.
More... Heather Kristin Gerken, the inaugural J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, is one of the country's leading experts on voting rights and election law, the role of groups in the democratic process and the relationship between diversity and democracy.
More... As part of its ten-year anniversary celebration, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School is hosting an alumni reunion and conference November 15-16 at Yale Law School.  More... On March 5-6, 2009, Yale Law School will host a major colloquium that celebrates the role of clinical education at Yale Law School. More... The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act by hosting a symposium November 7-8 at Yale Law School. More... Judge Ralph K. Winter ’60 is the recipient of the 2008 Simeon E. Baldwin Award, given annually by Yale Law School’s Center for the Study of Corporate Law. More... An exhibition of early Italian statutes in The Lillian Goldman Law Library is dedicated to Judge Guido Calabresi ’58 in honor of the 50th anniversary of his graduation from Yale Law School. More... Yale Law School has expanded on its longstanding commitment to public service by doubling the number of public interest fellowships it offers. More... Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft will deliver a lecture titled “Leadership in Challenging Times” Thursday, October 30, at Yale Law School. More... Professor Jonathan Karpoff of the Foster School of Business, University of Washington, will give the Wasserman Lecture Nov. 18 at Yale Law School. More... Photos and streaming videos of Alumni Weekend 2008, including former President Bill Clinton's talk, are available on the Yale Law School Alumni website. More... Yale Law School’s Alumni Weekend 2008 featured a panel discussion titled “Toward the Next Generation of Environmental Policy.” More... The Information Society Project at Yale Law School has announced the launch of a new book, Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development. More... Professor Samuel Bowles will deliver the Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship Lecture November 10, speaking on “Good Government and Human Behavior:  New Evidence on Enduring Questions.” More... Tomiko Brown-Nagin ’97 will deliver the 2008 Thomas Lecture on Nov. 3, speaking on “Re-Envisioning the Civil Rights Movement:  Courts, Communities, and Legal Liberalism.” More... The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law hosted a panel discussion Oct. 2 to consider the causes of the U.S. financial crisis and offer opinions on the proposed bailout. More... A conference to honor the work of Professor Mirjan Damaška will be held Friday, Oct. 31, and Saturday, Nov. 1, at Yale Law School. More... The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and The Samuel Family Foundation have announced the launch of a project to assess environmental management and performance at the provincial level in China. More... On Oct. 7, a pioneering commercial litigator will discuss his role in blocking construction of several coal-fired power plants in a landmark case that pitted 37 cities against a powerful Texas utility. More... Stanford professor and corporate law scholar Robert Daines ’92 will discuss “Rating the Ratings: How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings?” Oct. 2 at Yale Law School. More... Dean Harold Hongju Koh testified Sept. 16 before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution about “Restoring the Rule of Law.” More... Leading constitutional court justices from around the world will gather Sept. 25-27 at Yale Law School for the 2008 Global Constitutionalism Seminar. More... The Honorable Margaret Marshall ’76, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, will give the Robert P. Anderson Memorial Lecture on Sept. 22 at Yale Law School. More... The Connecticut Supreme Court will come to Yale Law School on Friday, Sept. 12, to hear arguments in a criminal case and a civil case. More... Professor Robert Ellickson ’66 has been named the 2008 recipient of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize, given by William and Mary Law School.  More... Effi Benmelech of Harvard University’s department of economics will discuss “Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection” Sept. 16 at Yale Law School. More... Richard Mendelson will offer a Dean’s Special Seminar on “Wine Law in America” Sept. 23 and 25 at Yale Law School. More... The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is hosting its third Access to Knowledge Conference September 8-10 in Geneva, Switzerland. More... Dean Harold Hongju Koh welcomed new students to Yale Law School during a convocation address on Wednesday, August 27. More... Dean Koh sends a message to the Law School community regarding a sustainable Law School for the 21st century.
More... On September 27, the Yale Law & Policy Review will host a conference at Yale Law School on “Governing After 2008.” More... The Yale Law School community of alumni, faculty, students, and friends will gather October 3-5 for Alumni Weekend 2008. More... Yale Law School has received a $3 million gift from the Robina Foundation that will support creation of the Robina Foundation Human Rights Fellowship Initiative at Yale Law School. More... Yale Law School students played a key role in a lawsuit that is the subject of Business Week magazine’s June 5 cover story. More... Eugene R. Fidell, a leading expert in military justice, will join Yale Law School as the Florence Rogatz Senior Visiting Lecturer in Law.
More... The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law was busier than ever this past academic year, organizing more events in 2007-2008 than in any year since it was founded in 1999. More... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh discussed the state of the Law School in his annual letter to alumni. More... The Yale Journal on Regulation has announced The Walton H. Hamilton Prize for Outstanding Scholarship, which will go to the article in each volume judged most likely to have a significant impact on the study and understanding of regulatory policy. More... 232 members of the Yale Law School Class of 2008 were honored at Memorial Day Commencement ceremonies on May 26. More... The Information Society Project at Yale Law School and the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy have announced their fifth interdisciplinary writing competition in conjunction with the third Access to Knowledge (A2K3) Conference taking place September 8-10 in Geneva, Switzerland, will feature an award sponsored by Kaltura. More... Clay Shirky and Konstantinos Karachalios will deliver the keynote talks at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference being held May 20-23 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven. More... University of Michigan Professor Scott J. Shapiro ’90 will join the Yale Law School faculty in July 2008 as a professor of law and philosophy. More... Nicholas Parrillo ’04 will join the Yale Law School faculty in July 2008 as Associate Professor of Law. More... The Information Society Project at Yale Law School has issued a set of technology policy recommendations aimed at helping shape public debate on the topic during the current U.S. presidential election. More... Professor Reva Siegel ’86 has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. More... 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. More... Yale Law School students, faculty and staff are invited to give the gift of life in honor of Joey Hanzich ’10 during the Joey Hanzich ’10 Memorial Blood Drive April 23-25 at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. More... U.S. Governors and top environmental officials met at Yale University on April 18, 2008, to exchange ideas and develop a strategy on global warming. More... Yale Law School Professor Roberta Romano ’80 has been awarded The De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize from the European Corporate Governance Institute. More... Yale Law School will enhance its public interest program and improve financial support for alumni. More... The Pacific Islander, Asian, and Native American Students Association (PANA) will honor Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal ’95 at its second annual Alumni Banquet on May 2. More... The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals will be held May 5 and will consider the case, Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker. More... The Yale Law School community is invited to a Dean’s Concert and a whole lot more on April 11, when Robin Batteau, award-winning musician and jingle producer extraordinaire, presents “How to Turn a Harvard B.A. and a Career in Folk Music Into a Living Writing Jingles.” More... Raghuram G. Rajan will deliver the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellow Lecture on April 29, speaking on “Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States.” More... Bruce Shapiro, a veteran reporter on human rights and criminal justice, will speak on “The Cost of Bearing Witness: Understanding Human Rights and Trauma” on April 8 at Yale Law School. More... In a conversation with the Yale Law School community on April 24, acclaimed author Michael Pollan will share his fascinating ideas on the state of American eating and how it, and our health, are being affected by federal policies. More... Stephen Lewis, former Special Envoy to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for HIV/AIDS in Africa, will discuss efforts to promote more urgent and effective global responses to HIV/AIDS on April 10 at Yale Law School. More... Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar ’84 has been honored with the 2008 William Clyde DeVane Award, the oldest and highest-ranking award for excellence in scholarship and undergraduate teaching at Yale. More... Einstein Forum Director Susan Neiman will discuss “Achieving Moral Clarity: Reflections For Grown-Up Idealists” when she delivers the Cover Lecture in Law and Religion on April 28. More... Linda Greenhouse ’78 M.S.L., Pulitzer Prize-winning legal writer and Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times for the past three decades, will return to Yale Law School in January 2009 as the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow.
More... Thomas W. Merrill, the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia University, will join Yale Law School on July 1, 2008, as Professor of Law.
More... Dr. John Tedstrom will discuss “The Business of Public Health:  How U.S. Health Policy Abroad Can Help Promote Economic Development & Save More Lives in the Process” on March 31 at Yale Law School. More... Harvard Law Professor Reinier H. Kraakman ’79 will deliver the Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance on April 21, speaking on “Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure.” More... Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will be the keynote speaker at the first annual Heyman Federal Public Service Colloquium taking place April 7 at Yale Law School. More... The 2007-2008 Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop series concludes April 18 with a lecture by University of Illinois Law School Professor Jennifer Robbennolt titled “Good Lawyers Should be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients.” More... The Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium will be held April 3 and April 4 at Yale Law School on the topic, “Justice Delayed?  The Impact of Time on the Trials of Gross Atrocities.” More... A jazz concert to celebrate the life and music of Professor Stanton Wheeler will be held April 13, 2008, at Yale Law School. More... NYU Law Professor Stephen Holmes will deliver the keynote lecture at the 11th annual Thomas M. Jorde Symposium to be hosted by Yale Law School on Tuesday, April 8. More... University of Virginia Law Professor Paul Mahoney ’84 will discuss “The Public Utility Pyramids” at the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance April 17 at Yale Law School. More... The Graduate Programs at Yale Law School will hold its second annual Works-in-Progress Symposium, titled “Next Generation Legal Scholarship,” on March 28 and 29. More... Four Yale Law School students, along with a student entering Yale Law School in the fall, are among 30 extraordinarily accomplished young people named Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellows for 2008. More... The Yale Law School Law and Media Program will host a panel discussion on April 1 titled “Covering Scandals: Investigative Reporters, Their Lawyers, and the Process of Breaking Controversial News.” More... The “Computers, Freedom, and Privacy: Technology Policy ’08” conference will be held May 20-23 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven. More... YLS Dean Harold Hongju Koh will moderate a panel discussion on March 4 titled “The Mitchell Report and Beyond: Steroids, HGH, and the Future of Baseball.” More... Auret van Heerden, CEO of the Fair Labor Association, will speak March 4 on “Can Voluntary Private Initiatives Save Labor Law Enforcement? Multinational Enterprises’ Role in Protecting Workers’ Rights.” More... Yale Law School will host the 11th annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium—“Liman at the Local Level: Public Interest Advocacy and American Federalism”—March 6 and 7, 2008. More... The Yale Law Journal has announced that The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is now available online. More... Yale Law School’s China Law Center co-hosted a workshop on anti-discrimination law with Sichuan University Law School on January 19 and 20 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.  More... NYU Law Professor Cristina Rodriguez ’00 will deliver the 2007-2008 James A. Thomas Lecture on March 10, speaking on “Burden Sharing in an Age of Migration.” More... Judge Philippe Kirsch Q.C., President of the International Criminal Court, will deliver a lecture on March 3 titled “From Rome to The Hague:  The Creation and Development of the International Criminal Court.” More... The Schell Center for International Human Rights will host a panel discussion on “The Iraqi Refugee Crisis: The Human Impact/The Human Response” February 21 at Yale Law School. More... The Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP) has joined with more than a dozen institutions and individuals from around the world to create a coalition dedicated to providing teachers and students with better access to digital information. More... Judge Nancy Gertner ’71, District of Massachusetts, has been awarded the 2008 Thurgood Marshall Award for her contributions to the advancement of civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights. More... The Information Society Project at Yale Law School will host the third Access to Knowledge Conference September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. More... The Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal will host its inaugural symposium on “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industries” on Saturday, March 8, at Yale Law School. More... The Yale Journal of International Law will host its sixth annual Young Scholars Conference on March 1, 2008, at Yale Law School. More... The Lillian Goldman Law Library will host a New Book Symposium on February 8 to discuss YLS Professor Michael J. Graetz’s new book, 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States. More... Yale Law School’s 2008 Commencement ceremony will take place May 26—Memorial Day. More... On January 12-13, 2008, Yale Law School’s China Law Center co-hosted a successful workshop in Beijing on anti-corruption reform in China. More... The Information Society Project’s Spring 2008 Lunch Speaker Series begins Tuesday, Feb. 5, and runs through Tuesday, May 6.  More... The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop series continues Feb. 29 with a lecture by Christopher Drahozal of the University of Kansas School of Law titled “Is There a Flight from Arbitration?” More... The 14th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference will be held Friday, February 22, through Sunday, February 24, at Yale Law School. More... Harvard Law Professor David B. Wilkins will deliver a lecture on February 11 at the Law School titled “After the J.D.:  Preliminary Evidence from a Ten-Year Longitudinal Study of Lawyer Careers.” More... The 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), produced by environmental experts at Yale and Columbia University, was released January 23 at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. More... A panel discussion titled “Disappearance and Extraordinary Rendition: Comparing Latin American Security Regimes to the U.S. ‘War on Terror’” will be held February 7 at Yale Law School. More... The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School has announced the appointment of a new Executive Director and a new Access to Knowledge (A2K) Program Director. More... Professor Jack Balkin’s Balkinization blog celebrated its fifth anniversary on January 13, 2008. More... The Boston Red Sox visited Yale Law School on Friday, January 11, to show off both the 2007 World Series trophy and the trophy they won in 2004. More... Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic presents its oral argument in United States v. Rodriquez on January 15. More... Cindy Alexander of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will discuss “The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting” at the Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance Jan. 31 at Yale Law School. More... Douglas Kysar, one of the nation’s leading young scholars in environmental law, will join the Yale Law School faculty and begin teaching in the next academic year. More... Friends and loved ones remember YLS Professor Stanton Wheeler, who passed away December 7, 2007, at age 77. More... Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is the 2008 recipient of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar Award. More... Yale Law School graduates shared their public interest insights and experiences with current Law School students at a Public Interest Retreat on November 10.  More... The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals were held Monday, December 10, at Yale Law School. More... Stanton Wheeler, Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus of Law and the Social Sciences and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, died Friday, December 7, 2007, in New Haven.
More... The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals will be held December 10 in the Yale Law School Auditorium. More... A panel discussion about the ongoing legal crisis in Pakistan and its implications for rule-of-law movements in Pakistan and South Asia was held Nov. 26 at Yale Law School. More... Professor Mohammed Fadel will give a Dean’s Lecture Dec. 10 on “Liberal Commitments, Islamic Commitments and Public Reason:  Strategies for Principled Political Reconciliation?” More...