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Tuesday, February 25, 2020
News
EBaY Win Vacates Murder Conviction
The Ethics Bureau at Yale (EBaY) helped vacate a decades-old murder conviction in California.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
In The Press
For Many Who Cleaned Up a Nuclear Mess, a Key Ruling Comes Too Late
The New York Times
The work of the Veterans Legal Services Clinic is mentioned in a New York Times article about the Clinic’s success on behalf of elderly veterans denied disability benefits for illnesses they suffered as a result of their work cleaning up a 1966 nuclear bomb disaster in Spain.
Monday, February 24, 2020
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Event
Legal History Forum — Michael Szonyi, Harvard University
12:10PM
Calabresi Faculty Lounge, Sterling Law Building
Event
Gene Baur: Changing Hearts and Minds about Food Animals - in conversation with Jonathan Lovvorn
12:10PM
SLB Room 129
Event
Law, Equality, and Social Welfare Policy - Anne Alstott - Foundations of American Legal Thought
12:10PM
SLB Room 127
Sunday, February 23, 2020
In The Press
Why Black Voters Keep Picking Democrats — A Commentary by Stephen Carter ’79
Bloomberg.com
Stephen L. Carter ’79 is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
In The Press
Fighting the next recession in the United States with law and regulation, not just fiscal and monetary policies
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law Yair Listokin has written one of the 21 essays in “Vision 2020: Evidence for a stronger economy,” a compilation presenting innovative, evidence-based, and concrete ideas to shape the 2020 policy debate from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
In The Press
The Trump era is a golden age of conspiracy theories – on the right and left — A Commentary by Nicolas Guilhot and Samuel Moyn
The Guardian
Samuel Moyn is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a Professor of History at Yale University. Nicolas Guilhot is a senior fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
In The Press
For Many Who Cleaned Up a Nuclear Mess, a Key Ruling Comes Too Late
The New York Times
The work of the Veterans Legal Services Clinic is mentioned in a New York Times article about the Clinic’s success on behalf of elderly veterans denied disability benefits for illnesses they suffered as a result of their work cleaning up a 1966 nuclear bomb disaster in Spain.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
In The Press
California communities suing Big Oil over climate change face a key hearing Wednesday
The Los Angeles Times
Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law Doug Kysar is quoted in the Los Angeles Times about a group of California communities suing fossil fuel companies for their contribution to climate change and the damages resulting from it.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
In The Press
Life under quarantine: Civil rights activists criticize ‘unprecedented’ coronavirus lockdowns
CNBC
Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership Amy Kapczynski ’03 is quoted in a CNBC story about quarantines for patients suspected of having the coronavirus.
I’m really passionate about three things. I want to have less violence, fewer prisoners, and better schools.”
Professor James Forman, Jr.
Class of 1992