The Open Video Conference June 19-20 in New York City, co-organized by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, drew thousands. More... Harold Hongju Koh sent a message to the Yale Law School community following his confirmation as Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. More... Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School since 2004, was confirmed as Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department on June 25, 2009. More... A message from Yale University President Richard Levin about the appointment of Robert C. Post ’77 as the Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. More... Robert C. Post ’77 has been named Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, effective July 1, 2009. More... Martha Minow ’79, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been named Dean of Harvard Law School. More... Yale Law School Acting Dean Kate Stith discussed the state of the Law School in her 2009 letter to alumni. More... 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. More... President Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor ’79 for the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court being vacated by retiring Justice David H. Souter. More... 229 members of the Yale Law School Class of 2009 were honored at Memorial Day commencement ceremonies on May 25. More... YLS Dean Harold Hongju Koh is the 2009 recipient of the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Service to the Profession Award. More... Sterling Professor of Law Owen Fiss has been awarded “La distinción Sócrates” by the Universidad de los Andes law faculty. More... The Potter Stewart Prize for best overall written and oral argument went to Robert Heberle ’10 and Joseph Pace ’10 in the spring finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court competition. More... Fifteen students from Bridgeport’s Harding High School came to YLS on April 20 to learn how to be fair and responsible dispensers of justice. More... Yale Law School clinic students played a major role in the revitalization of New Haven's Greater Dwight neighborhood by overseeing the $11.5 million refinancing of the Shaw’s Shopping Center. More... Yale Law School has announced it has awarded more than thirty public interest fellowships to its graduates for the 2009-2010 year. More... Professor John J. Donohue III has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. More... Robert Harrison ’81, CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative, will deliver a Dean’s Lecture on April 27 titled “Re-defining the Model for Addressing the Great Global Challenges.” More... Professor John Langbein has been honored by William & Mary Law School with the 2008-09 Marshall-Wythe Medallion, which recognizes outstanding leaders from the bench, bar, and academia. More... The Health Impact Fund, a pay-for-performance mechanism designed to reduce the cost of advanced medicines without stifling innovation, will be the topic of discussion Thursday, April 9, at Yale Law School. More... The future of online video will be explored at the “Open Video Conference” taking place June 19-20 in New York City. More... Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic scored another victory on April 1 in the case Harbison v. Bell. More... Read a sampling of articles and letters related to Dean Koh’s nomination to the Obama administration. More... The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals scheduled for May 4, 2009 will consider the case, Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. More... Morris L. Cohen, Professor Emeritus and Librarian Emeritus at Yale Law School, has donated his “Juvenile Jurisprudence Collection” to the Lillian Goldman Law Library. More... The Graduate Programs at Yale Law School will hold its annual Aspiring Scholars Symposium on April 17 and 18 at Yale Law School. More... Yale Law School students Carel Alé ’11, Andres Idarraga ’11, and Alexandru Iftimie ’11 have been named Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellows for 2009. More... Stanford Law Professor Michael Klausner ’81 will discuss “Are Securities Class Actions ‘Supplemental’ to SEC Enforcement? An Empirical Analysis” at the Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance April 23. More... Oona A. Hathaway ’97, Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, will rejoin the Yale Law School faculty as Professor of Law starting on July 1, 2009. More... Northwestern University Professor Claire Priest will join the Yale Law School faculty as Professor of Law starting on July 1, 2009. More... President Barack Obama today announced his intent to nominate Dean Harold Hongju Koh to be The Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State.
More... I wanted you to know that today, President Obama is announcing his intent to nominate me as The Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State.
More... To permit Dean Koh to focus on preparation for his important new responsibility, after consultation with a number of senior members of the faculty, I have asked Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, to begin serving immediately as Acting Dean of Yale Law School.
More... Immigration policy in the new century is the topic of the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium taking place April 2-3 at Yale Law School. More... Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ’73 will discuss “Leadership through Lawyering” on April 20 at Yale Law School. More... Floyd Abrams ’60, an expert in freedom of speech and press issues, will deliver a lecture titled “The Courage of Lawyers: Four American Heroes.”
More... Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management have announced the creation of an Accelerated Integrated JD-MBA program that will enable students to earn both degrees in three years. More... The Honorable Lee H. Hamilton will discuss “Strengthening the Congress” in the 2008-2009 Fowler Harper Lecture on April 13, 2009. More... On April 5, 2009, Yale Law School will hold a memorial service to mark the passing of Yale Law School Professor Emeritus Jay Katz, who passed away November 17, 2008. More... Stanford University professor Joshua Cohen will deliver the Ralph Gregory Elliot Lecture on March 30, 2009, speaking on “Religious Establishment, Civic Exclusion, and Democracy’s Public Reason.” More... The Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic won its second victory March 3 in the case, Negusie v Holder. More... Yale Law School will host a conference April 16-17, 2009, on “Frontiers in Social Justice Lawyering: Critical Race Revisited." More... The Information Society Project at Yale Law School has submitted recommendations to the Obama administration for a new U.S. strategy addressing the technical standards underlying the Internet and information and communication technologies. More... The Honorable Louise Arbour will deliver the Judge Jon O. Newman Lecture on Global Justice on March 23, 2009. More... The list of Yale Law School graduates appointed to positions in the Obama administration includes the top spots in the State Department and the Office of White House Counsel. More... A panel discussion titled “Understanding the Financial Crisis; Part II: The Stimulus, Bailouts, and Other Solutions,” will be held February 17 at Yale Law School. More... The Yale Information Society Project will host the “Library 2.0” Symposium on April 4, 2009, at Yale Law School. More... The YLS chapter of the Federalist Society will host the 2009 Federalist Society National Student Symposium Friday, February 27, and Saturday, February 28, at Yale Law School. More... University of Chicago business professor Steven Kaplan will deliver the Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance on March 2, speaking on the topic, “Are U.S. CEOs Overpaid?” More... Yale Law School’s 2009 Commencement ceremony will take place May 25—Memorial Day. More... The 15th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference will be held February 20-22 at Yale Law School. More... Yale Law School’s Law and Media Program will host a conference Feb. 13 and 14 on “The Future of Student Internet Speech—What Are We Teaching the Facebook Generation?” More... 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. More... Georgetown Law Professor Milton C. Regan, Jr., discusses “Legal Counseling and Conflicted Citizens:  The Case of Tax Practice” on February 23, 2009.  More... U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will deliver the Heyman Lecture on Public Service on February 2, 2009, at Yale Law School. More... University of Chicago Professor Luigi Zingales will deliver the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture on Feb. 16, speaking on “The Future of Securities Regulation.” More... New York University law professor Stephen Choi and University of Pennsylvania law professor Jill E. Fisch ’85 will give the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance Feb. 3 at Yale Law School. More... Judith Scott, General Counsel for the Service Employees International Union, will deliver the Preiskel-Silverman Lecture on February 9, speaking on “Standing up for the Real Joe the Plumbers: Social Justice Lawyering in the Age of Obama.” More... On March 5-6, 2009, the 12th annual Liman Colloquium will celebrate forty years of clinical education at Yale Law School. More... Sheila Hayre ’02, a staff attorney with the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, has been named public interest advisor and public interest mentor-in-residence at Yale Law School. More... Yale Law School will host a symposium January 29, 2009, on “Global Health Policy for the New Administration.” More... The Yale Law Women will host a conference March 27 and 28 titled “Opt Out” Or Pushed Out: Are Women Choosing to Leave the Legal Profession? More... Denver Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet ’93 has been chosen to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Interior secretary-designee Ken Salazar. More... On February 6, 2009, Yale Law School will host a conference titled “The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice: The Case of Darfur.” More... Gregory J. Fleming ’88, the former president and chief operating officer of Merrill Lynch & Co., has been appointed Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School and Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Center for the Study of Corporate Law at Yale Law School. More... Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law is co-sponsoring with the Yale Journal on Regulation the Weil, Gotshal and Manges Roundtable on “The Future of Financial Regulation” February 13, 2009, at the Law School. More... The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals were held Thursday, December 11, at Yale Law School. More... John Fabian Witt ’99, an expert in the history of American law, will join the Yale Law School faculty in July 2009. More... Members of the public who learn about nanotechnology tend to become sharply polarized along cultural line as to its safety, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School. More... U.S. Senator and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ’73 has been nominated by president-elect Barack Obama to serve as America’s 67th secretary of state. More... Yale Law School will hold a conference on April 24, 2009, to honor the work of W. Michael Reisman ’64 LL.M, ’65 J.S.D., Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft will deliver a lecture titled “Leadership in Challenging Times” Thursday, October 30, at 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Dean Harold Hongju Koh testified Sept. 16 before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution about “Restoring the Rule of Law.” 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... 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... Richard Mendelson will offer a Dean’s Special Seminar on “Wine Law in America” Sept. 23 and 25 at Yale 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... 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.
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