The Yale campus got a taste of show-biz recently when a crew from Paramount Pictures arrived to shoot several scenes for the new Indiana Jones movie. More... Peter H. Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School and co-author, with Richard J. Zeckhauser, of Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples, and co-editor, with James Q. Wilson, of the forthcoming Understanding America. More... Bruce Ackerman ’67, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School, and Ian Ayres ’86, William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School, are co-authors of Voting With Dollars. More... Ronan Farrow ’09 is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. More... The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is donating $10 million to support The China Law Center of Yale Law School for five years. More... Yale Law School alum Carolyn Dineen King ’62, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, is the 2007 recipient of the Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award. More... 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... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh discussed the state of the Law School in his annual letter to alumni. More... 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... Anne Alstott '87 is the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation at Yale Law School and author of No Exit: What Parents Owe Children and What Society Owes Parents. More... Yale Law School’s 2007 Commencement ceremony took place Monday, May 28, in the Law School Courtyard. More... Continuing a tradition started in 2006, Yale Law School’s 2007 Commencement was “carbon neutral.” More... 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... Daniel C. Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale Law School and co-author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. More... William Eskridge '78 is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and the author of a forthcoming book on the decline of sodomy laws in America. More... One of the most successful student organizations at Yale Law School during the 2006-2007 school year was the Yale Law Federalist Society, a group of conservative and libertarian law students dedicated to fostering discussion and debate of issues of law and public policy. More... Yale Law School has won a $2.5 million challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create the Knight Law and Media Scholars Program. More... Yale Law School’s 2007 Commencement ceremony will take place on Monday, May 28, at noon in the Law School courtyard. More... Yale Law School has acquired seven Bloomberg terminals, a cutting-edge news and information platform that enables subscribers to monitor financial market movement and trades and legal and regulatory developments. More... Ian Ayres ’86 is the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School and co-author of Why Not? How To Use Everyday Ingenuity To Solve Problems Big and Small. More... Ken Harbaugh ’08 is a former Navy pilot and a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. More... U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ’75 was one of three distinguished judges presiding over the finals of Yale Law School’s Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals on May 7. More... Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel C. Esty ’86 is co-author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. More... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to scholarly and scientific research. More... An article written by Yale Law School Professor Henry B. Hansmann ’74 has been recognized as one of the ten Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2006. More... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh is one of six new members elected to the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association. More... Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and co-chair of the Women Faculty Forum. More... Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ’75 will take part in the Thurman Arnold Prize Finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court Competition May 7 at Yale Law School. More... Podcasts of selected lectures and events taking place at Yale Law School are available on the News & Events section of the Law School website. More... Yale Law School Professors Akhil Reed Amar ’84 and Henry B. Hansmann ’74 are among 203 new Fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. More... Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School. More... Karim Yehia Youssef ’07 is an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Cairo University and a JSD candidate at Yale Law School. More... On Tuesday, May 1, L. Gordon Crovitz ’86 will give a Dean’s Program on the Profession talk titled "Lawyers, the Media and Efficient Markets." More... On April 30, Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier ’74 will deliver the Fowler Harper Lecture, speaking on “The Political Representative as Powerful Stranger:  Challenges for Democracy.” More... Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel C. Esty '86 is the co-author, with Andrew Winston, of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. More... Guido Calabresi Professor of Law Kenji Yoshino ’96 is the author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. More... Jonathan Finer ’09 is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. More... Susanna Rodell ’07 is an MSL candidate at Yale Law School. More... Ian Ayres ’86 is the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School and co-author of Why Not? How To Use Everyday Ingenuity To Solve Problems Big and Small. More... Yul Kwon ’00, winner of the reality TV show, Survivor: Cook Islands, will give a talk at Yale Law School on Thursday, April 19. More... Chad Flanders ’07 is a third-year student at Yale Law School. More... On Thursday, April 26, Joel Hyatt ’76 will give a Dean’s Program on the Profession talk titled “First Things First: The First Amendment, the Media Industry, and Democracy.” More... YLS’s Information Society Project will host a three-day “Access To Knowledge 2” Conference April 27-29 at Yale Law School. More... The American Constitution Society at Yale Law School will host a daylong conference on “Progressive Family Values” April 21. More... Northwestern University Law Professor Daniel Fischel will deliver the Ralph K. Winter Lecture on April 23, speaking on “Markets and Scandals: Enron and Beyond.” More... Jonathan Macey ’82 is Deputy Dean and Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law at Yale Law School. More... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... The annual Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium, to be held April 12-13 at Yale Law School, will focus on “Defending Rights Through Law in China:  Progress and Challenges.” More... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh testified March 29 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the subject of human rights practices. More... Ronan Farrow ’09 is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. More... On April 9, Professor Amy Chua will deliver her inaugural lecture as John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law—“Empire and Tolerance: The Rise and Fall of World Dominant Powers.” More... Heather Gerken is Professor of Law at Yale Law School where she specializes in election law, constitutional law and civil procedure. More... Yale Law School’s Community and Economic Development Clinic has helped The Hannah Gray Residential Care Home launch a new website and has provided a number of other services to the Home. More... Peter H. Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School and co-author of Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples. More... A lecture about the presidency of Gerald Ford ’41 and a panel discussion on his legal legacy will be held Friday afternoon, March 30. More... Ian Ayres ’86 is the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School and co-author of Why Not? How To Use Everyday Ingenuity To Solve Problems Big and Small. More... Giovanna Shay is a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School. More... Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. is Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney at Yale Law School. More... A survey commissioned by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy reveals increasing public concern about global warming. More... On March 29, Michael Solender ’89, General Counsel of Bear Stearns, will give a talk titled “Careers in the Law—The Law Firm, Government, and In-House Perspective.” More... The Graduate Programs at Yale Law School will hold its inaugural Works-in-Progress Symposium—“Next Generation Legal Scholarship”—on Tuesday, April 10 and Wednesday, April 11. More... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh will travel to Mexico with Yale University colleagues for “Yale Week in Mexico” March 20 to March 23. More... University of Texas Law Professor Sarah M. Buel will speak on the topic of domestic violence on March 27 at Yale Law School. More... Elizabeth Wurtzel ’07 is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School and author of Prozac Nation (Houghton Mifflin, 1994). More... Ken Harbaugh ’08 is a former Navy pilot and a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. More... Karim Yehia Youssef is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School. More... Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have each introduced bills based in part on Professor Gerken's "Democracy Index."
More... Yale Law School Professor Yochai Benkler has been named a winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 2007 Pioneer Award. More... Ian Ayres ’86 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. More... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh has issued a statement to the Yale Law School community on the subject of malicious website postings. More... 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... Richard Brooks has been appointed a tenured professor of law at Yale Law School. More... A study by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that emotions and individual values influence the public’s perception of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology. More... Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel C. Esty '86 is the co-author, with Andrew Winston, of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. More... Five current Yale Law School students and two enrolling in the fall have received Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellowships for 2007.  More... Yale Law Women will introduce a new online community for women in the legal profession at a conference March 31 at Yale Law School titled “Legally Female: What Does It Mean to Be Ms. JD?” More... Yale Law School will host the tenth anniversary Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium on March 1 and 2, 2007. More... Dr. Harold Varmus, president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will deliver the 2006-2007 Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship Lectures on March 26 and 27.  More... On Thursday, March 8, William F. Lee, co-managing partner of WilmerHale, will give a Dean’s Program on the Profession talk titled "Jury Trials in Complex Intellectual Property Cases: Do They Work?" More... The 20th Annual Robert M. Cover Public Interest Law Retreat will be held March 2-4, 2007, at Boston University's Sargent Center in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
More... 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... Former JFK Adviser Theodore Sorensen will give a Dean’s Lecture titled “A World of Law—Then and Now” on March 12 at Yale Law School. More... The Yale Journal of International Law will host its Fifth Annual Young Scholars Conference, “The 'New' New Haven School: International Law—Past, Present & Future,” March 10 at Yale Law School. More... On March 1 from 3:00-5:00 p.m., the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy will launch the UNITAR/Yale Environment & Democracy Initiative by sponsoring a program titled, “Strengthening Democratic Environmental Governance: Identifying Opportunities for Research, Teaching and Capacity-Building.” More... Noted British barrister Christopher Sallon QC will deliver lectures at Yale Law School on February 28 and March 1—“Taking Liberties with Justice” and “Sion Jenkins: A Question of Justice.” More... In honor of Black History Month, the Black Law Students Association at Yale Law School will host a panel discussion February 21 on the life, legacy and impact of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. More... Boston College Professor Alicia H. Munnell will deliver the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School on March 5 and 6, speaking on “The Declining Number of Players in the Retirement Income Game.” More... Ken Harbaugh ’08 spent nine years in the Navy before entering Yale Law School. "The Perils, and Fears, of an Engagement Policy" originally aired on NPR's "All Things Considered." More... Ken Harbaugh ’08 spent nine years in the Navy before entering Yale Law School. "Being the Mother to a Family of Soldiers" originally aired on NPR's "All Things Considered." More... The 13th annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference will take place the weekend of February 23-25 at Yale Law School. More... The Green Bag journal has selected works by a number of members of the Yale Law School community as "exemplars of good legal writing" for 2006. More... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh was one of three people delivering eulogies for the Rev. Robert F. Drinan at Rev. Drinan’s funeral service on Feb. 3, 2007. More... On February 2, Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic filed a merits brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a high-profile Establishment Clause case, Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation. More... Bruce Ackerman '67 is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Susan Rose-Ackerman is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. More... Bengt Holmstrom will deliver the 2006-2007 John R. Raben Fellowship Lecture on February 19, speaking to the Yale Law community on “Corporate Governance in Context.” More... Kenji Yoshino ’96 is the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. More... YLS’s Information Society Project will host an Open Standards International Symposium on February 3 at the Law School. More... Bengt Holmstrom will deliver the 2006-2007 John R. Raben Fellowship Lecture on February 19, speaking to the Yale Law community on “Corporate Governance in Context.” More... On January 25, Americans for Informed Democracy at Yale Law School will host a global videoconference entitled “Veto the ’Squito: How We Can Work Together to End Malaria.” More... Ken Harbaugh spent nine years in the Navy before he started Yale Law School last year. "Fallen Comrade" originally aired on NPR's "All Things Considered."
More... Guido Calabresi Professor of Law Kenji Yoshino '96 is the author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (Random House, 2006). More... Cyrus Habib ’09 is a Rhodes Scholar and JD candidate at Yale Law School. More... More than 130 U.S. law school deans have released a statement in response to remarks by Charles “Cully” Stimson about lawyers for detainees. More... 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... Jane Matilda Bolin ’31 died January 8 at age 98. She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School and the first in the United States to become a judge. More... Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty '86 is the author, with Andrew Winston, of Green to Gold (Yale University Press, 2006).
More... Heather Gerken is Professor of Law at Yale Law School where she specializes in election law, constitutional law, and civil procedure. More...