December 19, 2005


Over the last several weeks, an informal group of Yale Law School students and faculty calling themselves "The Alito Project," reviewed all 415 judicial opinions that Judge Samuel Alito wrote while serving as a Circuit Judge. The report was delivered to all one hundred Senators on Monday, just as many of them are preparing for Judge Alito's nomination hearings scheduled to start on January 9, 2006.

"Our goal was to help Senators and citizens make an informed decision about this nominee," said Professor Owen Fiss, one of the project's participants.

Yale Law School's Office of Public Affairs has received numerous requests for this report, which is not an official publication of the Yale Law School. The group that prepared the report has given an electronic version of the report to the Yale Law School library, where --like many other writings of Yale Law faculty and students, which express a broad range of opinions on a broad range of issues -- the report may be accessed via this link.

Contacts:
Professor Owen Fiss 203-432-4963
Professor Robert Burt 203-393-3881
Brian Deese (student) 203-910-4391