December 29, 2006
Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty '86 is the author, with Andrew Winston, of
Green to Gold (Yale University Press, 2006).
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December 27, 2006
"Chance thrust upon Gerald Ford a succession of crucial historic roles—President, Vice President, House Minority Leader, and member of the Warren Commission. He answered each of those challenges with courage and humility,” Dean Harold Hongju Koh said.
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December 25, 2006
Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff are professors at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management, respectively. They are co-authors of Why Not? and regular columnists for
Forbes.
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December 19, 2006
Yale Law School students will get an opportunity to explore innovative public policy litigation strategies as the result of a unique collaboration with the San Francisco Attorney’s Office and the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law.
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December 16, 2006
Bruce Ackerman '67 is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School and the author of
Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism.More...
December 13, 2006
Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh was one of 29 constitutional law professors from around the U.S. who filed an amicus brief December 12 in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.
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December 12, 2006
Guido Calabresi Professor of Law Kenji Yoshino has been honored by The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights for his most recent book,
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights.
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December 11, 2006
On Thursday, December 14, Floyd Abrams '60 will give a Dean’s Program on the Profession talk entitled "The Rwanda Media Genocide Appeal: When is a Journalist Guilty of Genocide?"
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December 11, 2006
Kenji Yoshino '96 is the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and author of
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (Random House, 2006).
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December 8, 2006
The Morris Tyler Moot Court will consider the case of
Massachusetts v. EPA on Monday, December 11, in the Levinson Auditorium.
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December 7, 2006
Professor of Law Kenji Yoshino '96 is the author of
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (Random House, 2006).
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December 7, 2006
"The Changing Dynamics of International Arbitration" was the topic of Yale Law School's first Law and Globalization Breakfast, held November 29 in New York City.
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December 6, 2006
Susan Rose-Ackerman, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of Political Science, discussed “Corruption and Democratic Transitions” in the opening “In the Company of Scholars” lecture held October 31.
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December 5, 2006
On Tuesday, December 12, Professor Gerald Torres ’77 will give a Dean’s Lecture entitled “The Red and The Black: Culture, Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights.”
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December 4, 2006
Josh Chafetz is a third-year student at Yale Law School. He is the author of the forthcoming
“Democracy’s Privileged Few: Legislative Privilege and Democratic Norms in the British and American Constitutions.”More...
December 1, 2006
Gerhard Casper will deliver the inaugural Kronman-Postol Lecture on Thursday, December 7, speaking to the Yale Law School community on “Caesarism in Democratic Politics: Reflections on Max Weber.”
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December 1, 2006
Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney J. L. Pottenger Jr. ’75 has been honored by Connecticut Voices for Children for his work in developing a partnership between Connecticut Voices and Yale Legislative Services.
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November 30, 2006
On November 14, 2006, St. Luke’s Senior Housing, Inc.—a client of the Community and Economic Development (CED) Clinic—broke ground on Josephine Jarvis Gray Senior Housing in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood.
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November 28, 2006
Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic National Litigation Project sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court in New Haven last Tuesday, seeking records of a program known as “Operation Front Line.”
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November 28, 2006
In the 2006-2007 Preiskel-Silverman Lecture held Monday, November 27, 2006, Ben W. Heineman, Jr., ’71, spoke on “Law and Leadership.”
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November 27, 2006
On Thursday, Nov. 30, Robert Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, will speak to the Yale Law School community.
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November 21, 2006
Darren R. Spedale and William N. Eskridge Jr. '78, a Yale Law School professor, are authors of
Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse? What We've Learned from the Evidence.
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November 17, 2006
On Friday, November 10, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia participated in a question and answer session with the Law School community.
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November 14, 2006
Now a first-year student at Yale Law School, Jonathan Finer is on leave as a reporter for
The Washington Post.
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November 1, 2006
Alumni Weekend 2006 saw the return of hundreds of Law School graduates to the Sterling Law Building, where they attended panels and met with former classmates.
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October 30, 2006
Now a first-year student at Yale Law School, Jonathan Finer is on leave from his position as a staff writer for
The Washington Post.
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October 30, 2006
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches about federalism, procedure, feminism, and local and global interventions to diminish inequalities and subordination.
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October 27, 2006
William Eskridge, Jr. '78 is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. Darren R. Spedale is an investment banker in New York City. Eskridge and Spedale co-authored
Gay Marriage: for Better or for Worse?More...
October 27, 2006
Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff are professors at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management, respectively. They are coauthors of
Why Not? and regular columnists for
Forbes.
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October 25, 2006
Mark Malloch Brown, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, will give a public address on the challenge of managing global change on October 30, at 5 p.m. in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium.
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October 24, 2006
Jonathan Macey '82 is Deputy Dean and Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law at Yale Law School.
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October 23, 2006
Ken Harbaugh '08 spent nine years in the Navy before he enrolled at Yale Law School. "Moving from the War to Law School at Yale" originally aired as a commentary on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
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October 20, 2006
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York has transferred 1,641 volumes from its rare book collection to the Law School's library.
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October 19, 2006
"We Answer to the Name of Liberals," was co-written by Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman '67 and Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University.
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October 18, 2006
The awards were presented on Saturday, October 14, at the 2006 Alumni Weekend luncheon.
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October 18, 2006
The China Law Center co-sponsored a “Roundtable on Drug Law and Policy” on September 20-21, 2006 with the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress.
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October 17, 2006
The Yale Corporation approved the appointment of four members of the Law School faculty to endowed Chairs.
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October 16, 2006
In conjunction with the launch of Yale University’s "Yale Tomorrow" capital campaign, Yale Law School has launched its own "Law Tomorrow" capital campaign, expected to raise $200 million over the next five years for student financial assistance, residential housing, faculty support, and additional funding for new and existing academic programs.
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October 10, 2006
Senator Specter will speak on Friday, October 13 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 127.
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October 10, 2006
Now a first-year student at Yale Law School, Jonathan Finer was a
Washington Post correspondent in Baghdad from May 2005 to July 2006.
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October 9, 2006
Professor of Law Kenji Yoshino '96 is the author of
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (Random House, 2006).
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October 9, 2006
International human rights experts will meet at Yale on October 16 to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
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October 5, 2006
William K. Townsend Professor of Law Ian Ayres '86 discusses the use of a proposed "Fair Employment" mark.
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October 3, 2006
Members of the Yale Law School community have organized panels to discuss "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" on Thursday, October 5 and Friday, October 6.
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October 3, 2006
Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty co-wrote "It's Easy Being Green" with Andrew Winston, Director of Yale University's Corporate Environmental Strategy Project.
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October 3, 2006
Prof. Jonathan Macey will deliver his inaugural lecture as the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law on Monday, October 9.
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September 29, 2006
A variety of activities—from public service to sport and play to serious discussions and timely panels—will be offered during Alumni Weekend, October 13-15, 2006.
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September 28, 2006
"The White House Warden," an op-ed by Sterling Professor of Law Bruce Ackerman '67, appeared in the September 28 issue of the
Los Angeles Times.
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September 27, 2006
In a letter to U.S. Senators and Members of Congress today, a group of more than seventy law school deans and professors from across the country express concern about the Military Commissions Act and the National Security Surveillance Act.
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September 26, 2006
Public-interest advocacy and education organization Public Knowledge recently announced that Professor of Law Yochai Benkler is a winner of its 2006 IP
3 award for his work on Information Policy.
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September 26, 2006
Professor Macey testified during the Senate Judiciary Committee's Sept. 26 hearing to examine reports of insider trading activities in U.S. financial markets.
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September 25, 2006
The award recognizes Katz for championing creative solutions for metropolitan reshaping and restoration.
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September 21, 2006
Reva Siegel is Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law and Professor of American Studies at Yale University.
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September 20, 2006
Dine with friends and faculty. Remember the old times. Debate current events. Play croquet in the courtyard. Celebrate Yale Law School.
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September 19, 2006
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale. "Bad Party Line: All the reasons to hate Bush's wiretapping bill" originally appeared on Slate.com.
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September 15, 2006
Ian Ayres '86 is the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
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September 14, 2006
The Right Honorable the Lord Woolf of Barnes will lecture on "How to Change the Litigation Culture" on Monday, September 18, 2006, at Yale Law School.
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September 12, 2006
Bruce Ackerman '67 is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of over a dozen books, including
Before the Next Attack (Yale University Press, 2006).
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September 6, 2006
The title of Bloom's winning paper is "Subpoenaed Sources and the Internet: A Test for When Bloggers Should Reveal Who Misappropriated a Trade Secret."
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September 1, 2006
Professors Reva Siegel and Robert Post were guests on Connecticut Public Radio's
The Faith Middleton Show on Tuesday, August 29, 2006.
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August 30, 2006
The August 21, 2006, international edition of
Newsweek ranked Yale University No. 3 among global universities, and included an article written by Yale President Richard Levin.
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August 30, 2006
Dean Koh spoke of the Law School as a "community of commitment" and urged new students to use their time at YLS to find new ideas, combine theory and practice, and discover what they stand for.
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August 29, 2006
Join fellow YLS alums October 13-15 in New Haven for Alumni Weekend 2006.
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August 25, 2006
Four members of the Lillian Goldman Law Library staff received awards at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, held in St. Louis this summer.
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August 24, 2006
Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff are professors at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management, respectively. They are coauthors of
Why Not? and regular columnists for
Forbes.
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August 21, 2006
"In Case of Emergency," an opinion article by Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, originally appeared on
The American Prospect website.
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August 21, 2006
"Good Cop, Bad Cop," an opinion article on U.S. immigration policy by Peter H. Schuck, the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at YLS, appears in the August 2006 issue of
American Lawyer.
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August 15, 2006
An interview with Jamie Horsley, deputy director of The China Law Center at Yale Law School.
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August 14, 2006
Professors Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres co-authored
Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance (Yale University Press, 2002).
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August 14, 2006
Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent, co-authored by Professor Ian Ayres and Gregory Klass, has been selected as the 2006 winner of the Scribes Book Award.
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August 8, 2006
Yale Law School's Information Society Project (ISP) recently analyzed over fifty years of existing research with an eye toward determining the extent to which public opinion both responds to and influences Supreme Court rulings on freedom of speech.
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July 27, 2006
Yale Law School, the Legal Education and Research Society (LEARS) of India, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will co-sponsor the "International Conference on Access to Justice: Law, Policy and Institutions" in New Delhi, India, August 11-13, 2006.
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July 20, 2006
Akhil Reed Amar is the Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His most recent book,
America's Constitution: A Biography, received the 2006 ABA Silver Gavel Award.
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July 18, 2006
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale. His op-ed titled "Detain Game" originally appeared on Slate.com.
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July 14, 2006
Professor Yoshino's published works include the recent book,
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (Random House, 2006).More...
July 13, 2006
Professor Ackerman
spoke about the nature of conspiracy charges, the use of pre-emptive arrests,
and the protection of civil liberties on
Talk of the Nation on Wednesday,
July 12.
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July 11, 2006
Dean Koh testified on July 11 before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on "
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Establishing a Constitutional Process."
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July 7, 2006
Dean Koh’s advocacy work will be recognized at an awards ceremony sponsored by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center on July 21.
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July 7, 2006
William K. Townsend Professor of Law Ian Ayres commented on "rational apathy" among small shareholders on
Marketplace.
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July 6, 2006
Representing Children Worldwide is a research project which compiles information and resources on how children's voices are heard in child protective proceedings around the country and around the world.
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July 5, 2006
Professor Amar was interviewed for a National Public Radio story
titled “Supreme Court More Conservative, Fragmented.”
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July 5, 2006
Ian Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School. John J. Donohue III is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
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July 5, 2006
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of over a dozen books, including
Before the Next Attack (Yale University Press, 2006)
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June 30, 2006
More than twenty students and several faculty members from Yale Law School have assisted Neal Katyal ’95 with
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
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June 29, 2006
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale. His most recent book is
Before the Next Attack (Yale University Press, 2006).
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June 28, 2006
Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. His political and legal commentary can be found at
balkin.blogspot.com.
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June 22, 2006
Professor Michael Graetz testified on the subject of international tax reform before the House Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures on June 22.
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June 21, 2006
Given annually since 1958, the ABA Silver Gavel Awards recognize works that help foster public understanding of the law and legal system.
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June 20, 2006
Prof. Sullivan commented on this week’s Supreme Court decision on
Davis v. Washington.
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June 20, 2006
Akhil Reed Amar is the Southmayd Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School.
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June 16, 2006
Dean Harold Hongju Koh delivered remarks on law and globalization at The American Law Institute's Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 2006.
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June 13, 2006
William Eskridge is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. Darren R. Spedale is an attorney
at White & Case LLP in New York City. Eskridge and Spedale co-authored
Gay Marriage: for
Better or for Worse? More...
June 12, 2006
Professor Steven B. Duke teaches and writes on criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and drug policy.
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June 12, 2006
Prof. Resnik’s remarks addressed issues of the American Constitution and international lawmaking.
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June 12, 2006
William Eskridge, Jr. is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and is co-author with Darren Spedale of
Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse? (Oxford University Press, 2006).
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June 2, 2006
Christine Jolls, one of the nation’s leading scholars in employment law, law and economics, and one of the founders of behavioral law and economics, will join the Yale Law School faculty as of July 1, 2006.
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May 26, 2006
The China Law Center hosted an "International Workshop on the Legislature, Budget Supervision, and Public Finance" in Beijing on May 13-14.
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May 16, 2006
Why not create a new lotto that lets people have the excitement of a traditional lottery while they are investing for their retirement?
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May 16, 2006
The Class of 2006 has elected Deputy Dean and Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law Dan Kahan to be its class speaker.
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May 16, 2006
"We Contain Multitudes", a review by Kenji Yoshino, Deputy Dean for Intellectual Life and Professor of Law at YLS, of Amartya Sen's book, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, appears in the May 14 issue of The New York Times.
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April 27, 2006
His subject areas are antitrust; business associations; civil rights; contracts; corporate finance; law and economics; and property.
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April 19, 2006
Oliver Hart is one of the world's most distinguished economic theorists working on the theory of the firm and organization, firm financial contracting, and contract theory.
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April 17, 2006
His primary research and teaching interests are business organizations, bankruptcy, contracts, corporate finance, and empirical legal studies. His additional interests are in federal income taxation and secured transactions.
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April 17, 2006
The Storrs Lectures, one of Yale Law School's oldest and most prestigious lecture programs, were established in 1889. These annual lecture are given by a prominent scholar within the broad topic of fundamental problems with law and jurisprudence.
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April 12, 2006
Professor Gerken 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.
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April 5, 2006
The Demands Of Memory: The Purposes, Forms And Moral Obligations Of Remembering Atrocities
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March 23, 2006
High Times and Misdemeanors
What the Supreme Court's drug cases may tell us about limits on federal powers.
By Judy Coleman '06
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March 23, 2006
Make the President Prime Minister . . .
By Dan Senor and Roman Martinez '08
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March 8, 2006
The Asbestos Mess
By Peter H. Schuck, Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at YLS, and Anthony J. Sebok '91, Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School
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March 3, 2006
Black history, American history
By Stephanie Robinson, Senior Research Scholar in Law
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February 2, 2006
Opening the Door
By Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law
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January 30, 2006
When the Blind See Better
By Ian Ayres, William K. Townsend Professor of Law, and Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, Yale School of Management
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January 26, 2006
The conference was called "Diversity, Equality and Harmony: International Workshop on Sexuality, Policy and Law," and was held in conjunction with Fudan University in Shanghai on January 7-8.
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January 10, 2006
Where Does Alito's Advocacy End?
By Lincoln Caplan, Knight Senior Journalist at YLS
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