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Friday, September 22, 2017
News
SFALP Case Sues Top Fossil Fuel Producers Over Climate Change Costs
The San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP) at Yale Law School is taking the world’s largest oil and gas companies to court.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
In The Press
Report: Latest Republican Efforts To Reform Health Care Could Cost Connecticut Billions
WNPR
Professor of Law Abbe R. Gluck ’00 is quoted in a story about the latest Republican attempt to repeal and replace the ACA.
Friday, September 22, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Event
Beyond Snowden: Mass Surveillance in the Shadow of Trump, a book talk with Timothy Edgar
12:00PM
Room 121
Event
Arab Winter: The End of Empire and the New Middle East – Whose Fault is the Islamic State?
4:15PM
Faculty Lounge
Monday, July 3, 2017
8:20
Thursday, September 21, 2017
In The Press
Unilateral Rocket Man—A Commentary by Bruce Ackerman ’67
Slate.com
Bruce Ackerman ’67 is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
In The Press
Report: Latest Republican Efforts To Reform Health Care Could Cost Connecticut Billions
WNPR
Professor of Law Abbe R. Gluck ’00 is quoted in a story about the latest Republican attempt to repeal and replace the ACA.
Friday, September 15, 2017
In The Press
The National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction
The New Yorker
Professor of Law James Forman, Jr. ’92 has been named a finalist for a National Book Award for “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.”
Friday, September 15, 2017
In The Press
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Sweetening the Deal
Traders Magazine Online News
Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law Jonathan Macey ’82 is cited in an article about rebates, the pricing mechanism employed by exchanges that pays for broker order flow.
Friday, September 15, 2017
In The Press
In Detroit, the end of blight is in sight
The Economist
Professor of Law David Schleicher is quoted in an article about the rebuilding of Detroit.
Friday, September 15, 2017
In The Press
A Prison Sentence Ends. But the Stigma Doesn’t.—A Commentary by James Forman Jr. ’92
The New York Times
James Forman Jr. ’92 is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Now it is time to pivot and ask, where are your extraordinary gifts needed? How do you make this legal world that you are entering a better world? One where no one is shut out; one where the weak and vulnerable are not exploited; one that produces fair results based on the merits of the issues before it.”
Visiting Lecturer Stephen Bright
2012 Commencement Address