This page highlights notable accomplishments and activities of current students – including clinic cases, honors, awards, student events, media mentions, books published, fellowships received, and community service. If you are a current student, we encourage you to submit story ideas and photos for inclusion on this page. If you have recently published an op-ed, were cited or quoted in the media, or published a paper, please tell us about it here. Student prizes are awarded annually.
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Gregory Fleming ’88 Honored by Yale Law & Business Society
The Yale Law & Business Society honored Gregory J. Fleming ’88 with the 2016 Annual Alumni Award on June 30, 2016 in New York City.
YLS Team Sweeps Awards at French-language Moot Court Competition
Yale Law School sent a team of students in May 2016 to compete in the Charles Rousseau International Law Moot Court Competition (Concours de procès simulé en droit international Charles-Rousseau), the premier French-language moot court competition in public international law. The competition brought teams from 26 universities to Varadero, Cuba to litigate a fictional dispute before the International Court of Justice. The YLS team, entering the competition for the first time, was the only team from the United States, and one of the few teams from a non-francophone country or region. The YLS...
Yale Law Students Launch Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project
Conchita Cruz ’16, Swapna Reddy ’16, Dorothy Tegeler ’16, and Liz Willis ’17 co-founded ASAP in the Spring of 2015 to respond to the unmet legal needs of Central American refugee families.
MFIA Clinic and Abrams Institute File Amicus Brief in Ag-Gag Case
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed an amicus brief challenging an Idaho law that makes it a crime to record slaughterhouses, feed lots, and other agricultural production facilities unless the owner explicitly consents.
Dena Adler ’17 Awarded Switzer Environmental Fellowship
Dena Adler ’17 has been awarded a 2016 Switzer Environmental Fellowship, a program of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation.
Federal Judge Finds in Favor of Veteran in Harassment Complaint Case
The Department of Defense wrongly refused to search and produce sexual harassment complaints against a senior officer in the Connecticut Army National Guard, a federal judge has ruled.
Clinic Study Concludes that U.S. Family Immigration Detention Violates International Law
A paper released on June 20, 2016 by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School concludes that the United States has violated its international obligations by detaining asylum seekers in jail-like facilities and by providing insufficient safeguards against return to persecution.
Clinic Reacts to SCOTUS Decision in Case of Death-Row Inmate
A death-row inmate will have a second chance at his appeal after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a prior ruling and remanded his case back down to the the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for further proceedings.
Students Encouraged to Make a Difference
More than 200 graduates of Yale Law School participated in commencement ceremonies on Monday afternoon at the William K. Lanman Center at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, surrounded by friends, family, and the Law School faculty. Watch the video, see photos, and read speeches.
Criminal Justice Clinic Client Has Prison Sentence Commuted by President Obama
On May 5, 2016, President Barack Obama granted a petition for clemency for a client of the Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic at Yale Law School.