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Tuesday, May 14, 2019
News
Liman Center Colloquium Focuses on Economic Injustice in Courts
The Liman Center Colloquium held its 22nd annual Colloquium in March and has published a free e-book of readings on the economics of court services.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Monday, May 13, 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Monday, May 13, 2019
Event
Commercial Speech and the First Amendment
8:30AM
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
Event
The ABCD’s of Digital Technological Challenges: AI, Blockchain, Cyber, Data “Privacy, Equality and IP by Design”
9:15AM
Quinnipiak Club
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
57:42
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
50:15
Monday, November 5, 2018
1:12:15
Thursday, May 16, 2019
In The Press
Harvard’s Shameful History Repeats Itself — A Commentary by Stephen L. Carter ’79
Bloomberg
Stephen L. Carter ’79 is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Thursday, May 16, 2019
In The Press
Trump’s Golan Policy and Its Threat to the Post-War International Legal Order — A Commentary by Oona Hathaway ’97 and Scott Shapiro ’90
Just Security
Oona Hathaway ’97 is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law. Scott Shapiro ’90 is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy.
Thursday, May 16, 2019
In The Press
Former Donald Trump Official Hopes for U.S.-China Deal, but Says Beijing Might Have to Wait for Change in White House
South China Morning Post
Visiting Lecturer in Law Susan A. Thornton, a senior fellow with the Paul Tsai China Center, is quoted in an article about prospects for a trade deal between the U.S. and China.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
In The Press
A Supreme Court Reporter Defines the Threat to Abortion Rights
The New Yorker
Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL was interviewed about the latest challenges to abortion rights in the U.S.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
In The Press
Swalwell’s Tweet about Georgia’s New Abortion Law is Only Slightly Off-Key
PolitiFact
Monday, May 13, 2019
In The Press
The Role of Litigation in Response to the Opioid Epidemic
Bipartisan Policy Center
Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy Abbe Gluck ’00 took part in a panel discussion where the role of litigation settlements in supporting prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts to address the opioid epidemic was addressed.
You don’t have to be a lawyer, but you have to be an involved person. You have to care enough about things to do something about them. It doesn’t have to be politics. It can be your church, your school, your community center; however, you want to be involved. What you cannot do is ignore things.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Class of 1979