Video Archive

Market Solidarity

Daniel Markovits '00 presented his inaugural lecture as the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law on April 9, 2012.

Interrogation After 9/11, Censorship, and Journalism

This panel discussion on "Interrogation After 9/11, Censorship, and Journalism" took place at Yale Law School on February 28, 2012. Panel discussion sponsored by the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression at Yale Law School.

A YLS History in Portraits, as told by Former Dean Guido Calabresi

Ever wonder why there are staples -- yes, staples! -- on the Yale Law School shield? Guido Calabresi, former Dean and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, explains that and more about the founding of Yale Law School during a tour of the school's many portraits.

Slavery and Race: Monticello Legacies

Professor Annette Gordon-Reed delivered the 2011-2012 James A. Thomas Lecture on March 5, 2012, at Yale Law School. Professor Gordon-Reed discusses the struggles implicit in Jefferson's Monticello and their relationship to our national identity and ideals.

Immigration Raids in New Haven -- Upholding Worker and Immigrant Rights

Professors Michael Wishnie and Muneer Ahmad talk about Yale Law School's Worker & Immigrant Rights Clinic's involvement representing Latino residents arrested beginning in 2007 and continuing through a recent settlement with the federal government.

Dean's Lecture: National Security Law, Lawyers and Lawyering in the Obama Administration

The Honorable Jeh Charles Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, delivered a Dean's Lecture at Yale Law School on Feb. 22, 2012. Johnson discussed lawyering in the Obama Administration in this lecture, titled "National Security Law, Lawyers and Lawyering in the Obama Administration."

Book Talk - Legality

Scott J. Shapiro, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School discusses his book "Legality" in this talk, which took place on February 21, 2012. Yale Law School Professor Heather Gerken provides commentary.

Reflections of an Inside Trader

Garrett Bauer, a former trader who pled guilty in Newark federal court to insider trading, obstruction of justice and money laundering in a conspiracy that netted some $37 million, told his story at Yale Law School on February 21, 2012.

Climate Change in the Courts

This panel discussion on "Climate Change in the Courts" features Yale Law School Professor Douglas Kysar; Benjamin Ewing '11; New York University School of Law Professor Richard Epstein; and Berkley Law Professor Daniel Farber, who debate the role of courts in responding to global warming. The discussion took place Feb. 15, 2012.

Gene Patents: Advancing Medicine or Capturing Humanity?

On February 14, 2012, Yale Law School's Information Society Project hosted a panel discussion about gene patents. Panelists included: Chris Hansen, attorney for the ACLU; Richard Marsh, General Counsel of Myriad Genetics; Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law at NYU; and Dr. Allen Bale, Director of the DNA Diagnostic Lab and Professor of Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine.

In Defense of Employment Rights

Christopher Ho, senior staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center in San Francisco, shares his experiences with litigation as well as the work of the Legal Aid Society in this talk delivered at Yale Law School on February 8, 2012.

"The Making of New Bordering Capabilities" - 2012 Storrs Lecture (Part I)

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. In this first lecture in the two-part Storrs Lecture series, Professor Sassen discusses "The Making of New Bordering Capabilities." This lecture was delivered on January 30, 2012.

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. In this second lecture in the two-part Storrs Lecture series, Professor Sassen discusses "Ungoverned Territories or New Types of Rights and Authority?" This lecture was delivered on January 31, 2012.

Democracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: a First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State.

With commentary by Professor Jack M. Balkin.

In his new book, Yale Law School Dean and the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the "marketplace of ideas" and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an opinion," is inadequate to create and preserve the expert knowledge that is necessary for a modern democracy to thrive.

The Dictates of Justice: Essays on Law and Human Rights - A Book Talk With Owen Fiss.

Owen Fiss reflects upon his time advising Argentinian President Raúl Alfonsín and his administration during the human rights trials that the country conducted in the mid 1980s.

Alumni Weekend 2011 -- A Look Back.

Yale Law School played host to more than 900 YLS alumni and their guests who returned to New Haven Nov. 4-6, 2011 for Alumni Weekend 2011 "Human Rights in a Turbulent World." Here's a look back at the discussions, the dinners, and the friendships -- new and renewed.

Michael Graetz and 'The End of Energy'.

The American public has never been asked to pay the price of the true cost of energy, says Michael J. Graetz, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School. In his latest book, "The End of Energy," Graetz argues for a new tax that reflects the risks of climate change, and allows the country to take advantage of the domestic production of energy now technologically possible.