Yale Law School Today
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
News
Legal Writing Class Teaches More than Memos
Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing not only trains students to write one of the mostly widely used legal documents, it gives them a comprehensive range of lawyering tools.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Director of Legal Research and Writing Cecilia A. Silver teaches a class of Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing, a course that all new J.D. students take in their first seven weeks of Yale Law School.
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Professor Judith Resnik (right) moderated the Anderson lecture, a conversation with Justice Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer of the German Constitutional Court (left) and Italian Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia (right).
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
From left to right: Rubin Danberg Biggs ’23, Demi Moore ’24, Nathan Cummings ’23, Mira Netsky ’23, Ian Miller ’24, Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law J.L. Pottenger Jr. ’75, Open Communities Alliance Executive Director Erin Boggs, Garden Homes Fund trustee Richard Freedman, Clinical Professor of Law Anika Singh Lemar, attorney Thomas Silverstein of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Open Communities Alliance board co-chair Constance L. Royster.
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Dean Heather K. Gerken and some of her SFALP clinic students in 2022.
Event
The Future of Worker Power: Labor Organizing and Labor Law at a Crossroads
12:10PM
SLB Room 127
Event
26th Annual Liman Colloquium - Budgeting for Justice: Fiscal Policy & Monetary Sanctions
(All day)
Sterling Law Building
Monday, September 26, 2022
In The Press
What Meaningful Action Could the United Nations Take To Help Ukraine?
NPR
Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona A. Hathaway ’97 discusses how nations can unite in responding to Russia for its war against Ukraine.
Sunday, September 25, 2022
In The Press
Biden Nixes EPA Action on Climate — A Commentary by E. Donald Elliott ’74
The American Spectator
E. Donald Elliott ’74 is the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
In The Press
A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent
The New York Review of Books
Clinical Lecturer in Law and a Senior Research Scholar Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL reviews Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America’s Schools by Stephen Breyer.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
In The Press
The Case for Creating an International Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine — A Commentary by Oona A. Hathaway
Just Security
Oona A. Hathaway ’97 is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
In The Press
Why Local Governments Need to Compete to Offer Citizens What They Want
Governing
A commentary on domestic migration in the U.S. cites scholarship by Professor of Law David N. Schleicher.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
In The Press
Coast Guard Academy Settles Suit Over Parenthood Ban
Law360
Professor Michael Wishnie ’93 and Clinical Lecturer Meghan Brooks ’19 are listed as part of the legal team in a report about a settlement reached in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a former cadet challenging the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s ban on cadets becoming parents. The plaintiff was represented in part by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic.
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