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EMBA Class of 2022 Selects Winners of Annual Teaching Awards
Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law Doug Kysar is among the winners of the Yale School of Management’s MBA for Executives Teaching Awards, selected in a vote by the EMBA Class of 2022.
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LEAP Announces 10 Student Grant Program Recipients for 2022
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) announced recipients of the LEAP Student Grant Program in support of multidisciplinary projects in law, policy, art, science, historiography, investigative journalism, and more.
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Yale Launches New Bird-Friendly Building Initiative
A new initiative aims to accelerate the adoption of bird-friendly design on Yale’s campus and beyond.
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Q&A: Saylor Soinski ’23 on Cultured Meat, Boundary Animals, and Legal Animal Advocacy
A Q&A with Saylor Soinski ’23, the 2021–22 co-president of the Yale Animal Law Society, about her research.
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An Excerpt from LEAP Student Fellow Ted Hamilton’s Book “Beyond Fossil Law”
An excerpt from a new book by Yale Ph.D. student Ted Hamilton which chronicles the work of the Valve Turners, an American climate activist group that shuttered a tar sands oil pipeline in 2016.
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Q&A: LEAP Student Fellow Caroline Parker on Biogas Capture on Factory Farms
Caroline Parker ’23 discusses her work on a report on biogas capture on factory farms.
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Q&A: LEAP Student Grant Recipient Annie Crabill
Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) Student Fellow Annie Crabill traveled to Lyon, France, to investigate a controversy embroiling the new mayoral administration: a vegetarian school lunch program.
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Q&A: LEAP Grant Recipient Sandra Amezcua Rocha
Sandra Rocha YC ’23 interviewed residents around Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, Mexico, and created a guide to P'urhépecha knowledge of the lake’s species.
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Q&A: Peter Lehner on the Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture
Peter H. Lehner, Managing Attorney of the Sustainable Food and Farming Program at Earthjustice and Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, discusses his new book and how agriculture can be a part of the climate solution.