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Welcome to the Yale Law School News & Events page. Below you will find highlights of activities by Yale Law School faculty, students and alumni—on campus and around the globe. The RSS link above will allow you to subscribe to the News Feed using your preferred feed reader.
May 17, 2012
Commencement Exercises To be Held May 21, 2012, in Payne Whitney Gymnasium's Lanman Center
April 25, 2012
Scott Shapiro ’90 Appointed Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law; Tom Tyler Named Inaugural Macklin Fleming Professor of Law
April 25, 2012
YLS Students Jasmeet Ahuja ’13 and Piotr Brzezinski ’14 Named Soros New American Fellows
April 17, 2012
Latin American Legal Studies Program Kicks Off Breakfast Series for Lawyers in Latin American Practice
April 13, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Deputy U.S. Attorney General James M. Cole Address Human Trafficking Symposium Participants
April 9, 2012
George L. Priest Named Chairman of the Council of Academic Advisers, American Enterprise Institute
April 4, 2012
Conference on Jack Balkin’s Living Originalism Will Look at Constitutional Interpretation
April 1, 2012
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL Named to List of Outstanding U.S. Journalists by NYU Journalism Faculty
March 30, 2012
Yale Law School Hosts Area High School Students at Third Annual Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition
March 21, 2012
Singapore Ambassador to U.S. Speaks About Democracy, Globalization and Competitiveness
March 19, 2012
Symposium March 28 on “Interpreting Federal Statutes: The Dysfunctional Dialogue between the Courts and Congress”
March 9, 2012
Yale Law School Collaborates with University of Palermo Press on Spanish Translation Series
February 29, 2012
H. Rodgin Cohen To Discuss Financial Crisis and Regulatory Response in March 26 Raben Lecture
February 24, 2012
Report from Yale Environmental Law Association’s Inaugural Conference Now Available; Second Conference to be Held This Saturday
February 22, 2012
Professor Daniel Markovits ’00 to Discuss Market Solidarity in Guido Calabresi Inaugural Lecture April 9
February 15, 2012
Landmark Settlement in New Haven Immigration Raid Case a Victory for YLS Worker & Immigrant Rights Clinic Students
February 14, 2012
Barrett Anderson ’12, Elizabeth Kelly ’12, Michael Love ’12, and Tara Rice ’12 Awarded Heyman Fellowships; Will Spend Year Working in Federal Government
February 10, 2012
Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed will Discuss “Slavery and Race: Monticello Legacies” at March 5 Thomas Lecture
February 8, 2012
Adjunct Professor Jennifer Prah Ruger Cited in Brief to U.S. Supreme Court on New Public Health Law
February 8, 2012
MIT’s Stephen Ross to Lecture Feb. 27 on Use and Abuse of Financial Theory in Legal Disputes and Regulation
February 8, 2012
Emily Bazelon ’00 and Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic Win Access to Settlement Agreement in Phoebe Prince Case
February 3, 2012
“Representing Justice” by Professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis ’66 Wins Two PROSE Awards, Named Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine
February 1, 2012
DOD General Counsel Jeh Charles Johnson to Discuss Lawyering in the Obama Administration
January 30, 2012
Three From Yale Law and Two Nursing Students Awarded Gruber Global Justice and Women’s Rights Fellowships
January 26, 2012
Switzerland Ranks at Top of 2012 Environmental Performance Index; Latvia Takes #1 Spot in New Trend EPI Rankings
January 19, 2012
Rebellious Lawyering Conference Feb. 17-18 Will Focus on Education Reform, Reproductive Justice, Other Topics
January 10, 2012
Globalization Expert Saskia Sassen of Columbia University To Deliver the 2012 Storrs Lectures
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December 22, 2011
Center for Environmental Law and Policy Part of Team Helping China Assess Environmental Performance
December 14, 2011
Justice Clarence Thomas ’74 Visits the Law School; Meets with Student Groups, Teaches Class
December 14, 2011
ALI Publishes Final Volume of the Restatement (Third) of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers; Professor Langbein Co-Author
December 12, 2011
Yale Law School Teams Advance to Finals in World Human Rights Moot Court and Copenhagen Competition
December 9, 2011
Henry Kissinger Addresses Yale Students on U.S.-China Relations and American Diplomacy
December 8, 2011
Robina Foundation Pledges Additional $3 Million to Support Human Rights Fellowship Initiative at Yale Law School
December 7, 2011
Estella Cisneros ’12, Dror Ladin ’10 Awarded 2012 Skadden Public Interest Fellowship
December 6, 2011
Community and Economic Development Clinic Instrumental in Completing Shopping Center Buyout
December 6, 2011
Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic Wins Access to Emails Between NYC Mayor’s Office and Former City Schools Chancellor
November 30, 2011
Professors Amar ’84 and Levinson To Debate: Does the Text of the Constitution Matter?
November 22, 2011
Supreme Court Clinic Presents Oral Arguments in the Case of a “Whistle Blower” Attempting to Sue for Wrongful Arrest
November 18, 2011
Victory for Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic as Appeals Court Upholds Online Anonymity
November 14, 2011
Moot Court Finals December 5 Will Consider Whether FCC Indecency Standards are Constitutional
November 14, 2011
Jean Koh Peters Honored by Asian Civil Rights Organization For Efforts on Behalf of Social Justice and Equality
November 7, 2011
Professors Whitman ’88 and Hamburger ’82 To Debate Church-State Separation and the Theological Roots of Law
October 30, 2011
Yale Law School Mourns the Death of Sterling Professor Emeritus and Former Dean Harry H. Wellington - Memorial Service Nov. 13
October 25, 2011
State Department Policy Planning Director and Hillary Clinton Advisor Jake Sullivan ’03 Will Discuss American Leadership Friday
October 25, 2011
USC Professor Gideon Daniel Yaffe Will Speak Nov. 3 on Criminal Responsibility & Neuroscience
October 22, 2011
True Patriot Co-authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer to Speak on The Future of Progressive Politics
October 17, 2011
Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression Will Promote Freedom of Speech and Press, Access to Information
October 13, 2011
Veterans Clinic Representing Navy Veteran Suing for Benefits, Same-Sex Marriage Recognition
October 11, 2011
Clifford Ando and Donald Davis, Jr. To Debate Place of Law and Religion in Ancient Rome and India
October 7, 2011
Amy Kapczynski ’03 to Join Law School Faculty in January as Associate Professor of Law
September 30, 2011
Enough Project Co-founder and Human Rights Activist John Prendergast to Share His Experiences With Yale Community
September 21, 2011
Transnational Development Clinic Helps Hundreds of Connecticut Factory Workers Gain Access to Job Training and Income Assistance
September 20, 2011
Attorney P. Sabin Willett To Share His Guantánamo Moment at Preiskel-Silverman Lecture
September 16, 2011
Ludwig Center for Community and Economic Development Offers Ideas to Obama Administration for Addressing Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis
September 13, 2011
Professor Resnik and Justice Ginsburg Uphold Women’s Rights in Re-enactment of 19th Century Case
September 13, 2011
Yale Law School and Thomson Reuters Announce Establishment of Thomson Reuters Initiative at the Yale Information Society Project
September 9, 2011
Professors Fish and Markovits Open Law and Religion Series with Debate on Democracy, Diversity, and Disagreement
September 1, 2011
Exhibition at Law Library – From Legal Pads to iPads – Highlights Yale’s Outstanding Legal Scholarship
August 19, 2011
Yale Visual Law Project Caps Successful First Year With Release of Two Student-Produced Films
August 17, 2011
Former South Africa Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs to Speak on Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights
August 16, 2011
Richard Brooks to Discuss Law, Economics and Skepticism in Leighton Homer Surbeck Inaugural Lecture
August 11, 2011
Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman Co-organizes Conference in Italy on Anti-Corruption Policy
August 3, 2011
Report from Yale Human Rights Team Finds Cambodian Garment Factories Use Short-Term Employment Contracts to Exploit Workers
July 27, 2011
YLS Students Paul Linden-Retek ’12, Shayak Sarkar ’13, and Vivek Ramaswamy ’13 Named Soros New American Fellows
July 19, 2011
Professor Robert Ellickson ’66 to Participate in International Property Rights Conference
June 27, 2011
Anne Alstott ’87, James Forman Jr. ’92, and David Singh Grewal ’02 Appointed to Law School Faculty
June 8, 2011
Roberta Romano ’80 Appointed Sterling Professor of Law; Henry Hansmann ’74 Named Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law
May 24, 2011
