Clay Shirky and Konstantinos Karachalios will deliver the keynote talks at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference being held May 20-23 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven. More... University of Michigan Professor Scott J. Shapiro ’90 will join the Yale Law School faculty in July 2008 as a professor of law and philosophy. More... Nicholas Parrillo ’04 will join the Yale Law School faculty in July 2008 as Associate Professor of Law. More... The Information Society Project at Yale Law School has issued a set of technology policy recommendations aimed at helping shape public debate on the topic during the current U.S. presidential election. More... Professor Reva Siegel ’86 has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. More... On April 22, Yale Law School’s Education Adequacy Clinic argued before the Connecticut Supreme Court that all Connecticut students have the constitutional right to an adequate education. More... Yale Law School students, faculty and staff are invited to give the gift of life in honor of Joey Hanzich ’10 during the Joey Hanzich ’10 Memorial Blood Drive April 23-25 at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. More... Yale Law School Professor Roberta Romano ’80 has been awarded The De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize from the European Corporate Governance Institute. More... Yale Law School will enhance its public interest program and improve financial support for alumni. More... The Pacific Islander, Asian, and Native American Students Association (PANA) will honor Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal ’95 at its second annual Alumni Banquet on May 2. More... The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals will be held May 5 and will consider the case, Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker. More... Raghuram G. Rajan will deliver the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellow Lecture on April 29, speaking on “Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States.” More... Bruce Shapiro, a veteran reporter on human rights and criminal justice, will speak on “The Cost of Bearing Witness: Understanding Human Rights and Trauma” on April 8 at Yale Law School. More... In a conversation with the Yale Law School community on April 24, acclaimed author Michael Pollan will share his fascinating ideas on the state of American eating and how it, and our health, are being affected by federal policies. More... The Yale Law School community is invited to a Dean’s Concert and a whole lot more on April 11, when Robin Batteau, award-winning musician and jingle producer extraordinaire, presents “How to Turn a Harvard B.A. and a Career in Folk Music Into a Living Writing Jingles.” More... Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar ’84 has been honored with the 2008 William Clyde DeVane Award, the oldest and highest-ranking award for excellence in scholarship and undergraduate teaching at Yale. More... Stephen Lewis, former Special Envoy to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for HIV/AIDS in Africa, will discuss efforts to promote more urgent and effective global responses to HIV/AIDS on April 10 at Yale Law School. More... Einstein Forum Director Susan Neiman will discuss “Achieving Moral Clarity: Reflections For Grown-Up Idealists” when she delivers the Cover Lecture in Law and Religion on April 28. More... Linda Greenhouse ’78 M.S.L., Pulitzer Prize-winning legal writer and Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times for the past three decades, will return to Yale Law School in January 2009 as the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow.
More... Thomas W. Merrill, the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia University, will join Yale Law School on July 1, 2008, as Professor of Law.
More... Dr. John Tedstrom will discuss “The Business of Public Health:  How U.S. Health Policy Abroad Can Help Promote Economic Development & Save More Lives in the Process” on March 31 at Yale Law School. More... Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will be the keynote speaker at the first annual Heyman Federal Public Service Colloquium taking place April 7 at Yale Law School. More... The 2007-2008 Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop series concludes April 18 with a lecture by University of Illinois Law School Professor Jennifer Robbennolt titled “Good Lawyers Should be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients.” More... Harvard Law Professor Reinier H. Kraakman ’79 will deliver the Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance on April 21, speaking on “Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure.” More... The Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium will be held April 3 and April 4 at Yale Law School on the topic, “Justice Delayed?  The Impact of Time on the Trials of Gross Atrocities.” More... A jazz concert to celebrate the life and music of Professor Stanton Wheeler will be held April 13, 2008, at Yale Law School. More... NYU Law Professor Stephen Holmes will deliver the keynote lecture at the 11th annual Thomas M. Jorde Symposium to be hosted by Yale Law School on Tuesday, April 8. More... University of Virginia Law Professor Paul Mahoney ’84 will discuss “The Public Utility Pyramids” at the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance April 17 at Yale Law School. More... The Graduate Programs at Yale Law School will hold its second annual Works-in-Progress Symposium, titled “Next Generation Legal Scholarship,” on March 28 and 29. More... Four Yale Law School students, along with a student entering Yale Law School in the fall, are among 30 extraordinarily accomplished young people named Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellows for 2008. More... The “Computers, Freedom, and Privacy: Technology Policy ’08” conference will be held May 20-23 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven. More... The Yale Law School Law and Media Program will host a panel discussion on April 1 titled “Covering Scandals: Investigative Reporters, Their Lawyers, and the Process of Breaking Controversial News.” More... YLS Dean Harold Hongju Koh will moderate a panel discussion on March 4 titled “The Mitchell Report and Beyond: Steroids, HGH, and the Future of Baseball.” More... Auret van Heerden, CEO of the Fair Labor Association, will speak March 4 on “Can Voluntary Private Initiatives Save Labor Law Enforcement? Multinational Enterprises’ Role in Protecting Workers’ Rights.” More... Yale Law School will host the 11th annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium—“Liman at the Local Level: Public Interest Advocacy and American Federalism”—March 6 and 7, 2008. More... The Yale Law Journal has announced that The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is now available online. More... Yale Law School’s China Law Center co-hosted a workshop on anti-discrimination law with Sichuan University Law School on January 19 and 20 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.  More... Judge Philippe Kirsch Q.C., President of the International Criminal Court, will deliver a lecture on March 3 titled “From Rome to The Hague:  The Creation and Development of the International Criminal Court.” More... The Schell Center for International Human Rights will host a panel discussion on “The Iraqi Refugee Crisis: The Human Impact/The Human Response” February 21 at Yale Law School. More... NYU Law Professor Cristina Rodriguez ’00 will deliver the 2007-2008 James A. Thomas Lecture on March 10, speaking on “Burden Sharing in an Age of Migration.” More... Judge Nancy Gertner ’71, District of Massachusetts, has been awarded the 2008 Thurgood Marshall Award for her contributions to the advancement of civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights. More... The Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP) has joined with more than a dozen institutions and individuals from around the world to create a coalition dedicated to providing teachers and students with better access to digital information. More... The Information Society Project at Yale Law School will host the third Access to Knowledge Conference September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. More... The Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal will host its inaugural symposium on “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industries” on Saturday, March 8, at Yale Law School. More... Yale Law School’s 2008 Commencement ceremony will take place May 26—Memorial Day. More... The Lillian Goldman Law Library will host a New Book Symposium on February 8 to discuss YLS Professor Michael J. Graetz’s new book, 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States. More... The Yale Journal of International Law will host its sixth annual Young Scholars Conference on March 1, 2008, at Yale Law School. More... On January 12-13, 2008, Yale Law School’s China Law Center co-hosted a successful workshop in Beijing on anti-corruption reform in China. More... The Information Society Project’s Spring 2008 Lunch Speaker Series begins Tuesday, Feb. 5, and runs through Tuesday, May 6.  More... The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop series continues Feb. 29 with a lecture by Christopher Drahozal of the University of Kansas School of Law titled “Is There a Flight from Arbitration?” More... The 14th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference will be held Friday, February 22, through Sunday, February 24, at Yale Law School. More... Harvard Law Professor David B. Wilkins will deliver a lecture on February 11 at the Law School titled “After the J.D.:  Preliminary Evidence from a Ten-Year Longitudinal Study of Lawyer Careers.” More... A panel discussion titled “Disappearance and Extraordinary Rendition: Comparing Latin American Security Regimes to the U.S. ‘War on Terror’” will be held February 7 at Yale Law School. More... The 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), produced by environmental experts at Yale and Columbia University, was released January 23 at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. More... The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School has announced the appointment of a new Executive Director and a new Access to Knowledge (A2K) Program Director. More... Professor Jack Balkin’s Balkinization blog celebrated its fifth anniversary on January 13, 2008. More... The Boston Red Sox visited Yale Law School on Friday, January 11, to show off both the 2007 World Series trophy and the trophy they won in 2004. More... Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic presents its oral argument in United States v. Rodriquez on January 15. More... Cindy Alexander of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will discuss “The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting” at the Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance Jan. 31 at Yale Law School. More... Douglas Kysar, one of the nation’s leading young scholars in environmental law, will join the Yale Law School faculty and begin teaching in the next academic year. More... Friends and loved ones remember YLS Professor Stanton Wheeler, who passed away December 7, 2007, at age 77. More... Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is the 2008 recipient of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar Award. More... Yale Law School graduates shared their public interest insights and experiences with current Law School students at a Public Interest Retreat on November 10.  More... The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals were held Monday, December 10, at Yale Law School. More... Stanton Wheeler, Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus of Law and the Social Sciences and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, died Friday, December 7, 2007, in New Haven.
More... The finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals will be held December 10 in the Yale Law School Auditorium. More... A panel discussion about the ongoing legal crisis in Pakistan and its implications for rule-of-law movements in Pakistan and South Asia was held Nov. 26 at Yale Law School. More... At Oxford she plans to pursue a M.Phil. in evidence-based social intervention, with a focus on programs for people of color, immigrants, and substance abusers. More... Yale Law School and the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies will host a public forum titled “Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution at Home and Abroad: A New Geometry of Power?" on November 30. More... Professor Mohammed Fadel will give a Dean’s Lecture Dec. 10 on “Liberal Commitments, Islamic Commitments and Public Reason:  Strategies for Principled Political Reconciliation?” More... The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop series continues Nov. 30 with a lecture by Ohio State Law School Professor Ellen Deason titled “A Framework for Comparison:  Building a Taxonomy of ADR System Analysis and Design.” More... Professor Holger Mueller of NYU’s Stern School of Business will discuss the question, “Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?” at the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance Dec. 5. More... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh and other members of the law school and legal communities have issued a statement about the rule of law in Pakistan. More... Professor Martha Nussbaum will deliver the 2007 Sherrill Lecture on Dec. 3, speaking on “The Real Clash of Civilizations:  Democracy, Religious Violence, and the Case of India.”  More... More than 50 Yale Law School alumni, as well as deferred students from the classes of 2011 and 2012, gathered for a reunion in London on October 21 and 22. More... Judge Nancy Gertner ’71 will give a Dean’s Program on the Profession talk November 15 on “An Improbable Career: Doing What You Think is Right.” More... Professor Andrew Metrick will discuss “The Economics of Private Equity Funds” at the Inaugural Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance Nov. 19 at Yale Law School. More... The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School will host a “Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace” on December 8 at the Law School. More... Enjoy highlights of Alumni Weekend 2007 by visiting the photo galleries and streaming videos available on the Yale Law School Alumni website. More... The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop series continues Nov. 13 with a lecture by Harvard University Professor Richard Zeckhauser titled “Trust in On-Line Auctions.” More... Richard Mendelson will offer a special Wine Law Seminar Nov. 1 and 5 at Yale Law School. More... Noëlle Lenoir, Of Counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton in Paris, will deliver a Dean’s Lecture on Oct. 30 titled “Is the New Europe Anticompetitive?”  More... James Calvin Tillman, who served more than 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, will take part in a panel discussion about his case Tuesday, Oct. 9, at Yale Law School. More... Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy spoke about “Constitutions: Structures and Rights” at the 2007 Global Constitutionalism Seminar at Yale Law School. More... Barry R. Schaller, a 1963 graduate of Yale Law School, was sworn in as a Connecticut Supreme Court Justice on September 24, 2007.  More... Veton Surroi, a member of Kosovo Negotiating Team, will deliver a Dean's Lecture on October 3 titled “Kosovo: In Pursuit of Independence.” More... Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman ’67 has been named co-winner of the Scribes Book Award for Before the Next Attack:  Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism. More... Thomas W. Merrill, Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean ’70 Visiting Professor of Law, will give a talk on September 24 at 6:00 p.m. in the Yale Law School Faculty Lounge. More... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh has released a statement on the Burt v. Gates decision. More... The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop series continues Oct. 15 with a lecture by NYU Law Professor Geoffrey Miller on “Ex Ante Dispute Resolution Arrangements in Public Company Contracts.” More... Retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey ’67 has been nominated to serve as America's 81st attorney general. More... A memorial service to celebrate the life of Joey Hanzich ’10 was held Sunday, September 30, 2007, at 1:00 p.m. in the Yale Law School auditorium. More... The Yale Law & Business Society, Yale Environmental Law Association, and Yale School of Management Energy Club will host a conference on “The Future of Energy” Nov. 9 at Yale Law School. More... University of Houston Law Professor Michael A. Olivas will deliver a Dean’s Lecture on Oct. 1 titled “‘Colored Men’ and ‘Hombres Aqui’:  Hernández v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering.” More... Dean Harold Hongju Koh welcomed all new students to Yale Law School on Wednesday, August 29. As part of his convocation address, Dean Koh spoke of the Law School as a community committed to humanity and excellence, and of the importance of service to justice. More... Join fellow YLS alums October 12-14 in New Haven for Alumni Weekend 2007. More... The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop series opens Sept. 14 with a lecture by Georgia State University Law Professor Douglas Yarn on “The Biology of Reconciliation.” More... NYU Law Professor Jeremy Waldron will deliver the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School on Sept. 10, 11 and 12, discussing “Partly Laws Common To All Mankind”: Foreign Law In American Courts. More... The fifth annual “State of Play” conference will be held Aug. 19-22 in Singapore. More... 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... 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... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh discussed the state of the Law School in his annual letter to alumni. 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... 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’s 2007 Commencement ceremony will take place on Monday, May 28, at noon in the Law School courtyard. 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 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... 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...