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Alumni Weekend 2018: Cutting-Edge Clinics

44:40
Faculty and Students Discuss the Transformation of Clinical Education at YLS

Alumni Weekend 2018: Talking Across Party Lines

41:03
As our politics become ever more partisan, how can voters and politicians all along the political spectrum engage in meaningful dialogue without devolving into shouting matches and insults? This panel explored the challenges presented by political tribalism and the ways in which we might move toward a more constructive dialogue.

Alumni Weekend 2018: Presentation of Dean’s Award and Award of Merit

21:32
On October 20, 2018, Dean Heather Gerken presented the Dean’s Award for Extraordinary Service to Toni Hahn Davis ’92 LLM and the Award of Merit to Carmela Castellano-Garcia ’91.

Freedom of Expression in an Age of Surveillance

1:00:48
This panel on September 26, 2018, was part of a series examining the role that the First Amendment should play in assessing the lawfulness of government surveillance.

Laurent Fabius: Environment and the Law: New Challenges for Our Century

44:13
Laurent Fabius, former Prime Minister of France, delivered the 2018-2019 Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship Lecture on September 12, 2018.

Jerome A. Cohen ’55: Law and Power in China and its Foreign Relations

59:22
Jerome A. Cohen ’55, a professor at NYU School of Law and founding director of its U.S.-Asia Law Institute, discussed China and foreign relations on September 12, 2018.

Constitution Day with Professor Akhil Amar

2:23
Sterling Professor of Law Akhil Amar '84 talks about what makes the U.S. Constitution unique and why we celebrate Constitution Day.

Supreme Court Watchers 2018

1:05:13
The YLSA of New York City presented its annual Supreme Court Watchers Breakfast on June 27, 2018 at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. The panelists were Boris Bershteyn '04 J.D., Andrew J. Pincus '77 B.A., Paul M. Smith '79 J.D., and Kenji Yoshino '96 J.D. Linda Greenhouse, ’78 M.S.L. moderated.