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Michael A. Varet '65 speaking at Alumni Weekend 2008

Friday, June 18, 2021

Two Gifts Honor Yale Law School alum Michael A. Varet ’65 and Extend His Legacy

The Varet family made two generous gifts to Yale Law School to honor Michael A. Varet ’65 and to extend his legacy.

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Veterans Clinic Secures Major Settlement in Army Class Action

The settlement ensures that the Army will reconsider thousands of decisions involving Iraq and Afghanistan-era veterans with a less-than-fully-honorable discharge.

WIRAC at the Supreme Court

Students and faculty from the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) attended the DACA arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in November 2019. From left to right: Professor Michael Wishnie, Professor Marisol Orihuela, Armando Ghinaglia Socorro ’21, Professor Muneer Ahmad, Laura Kokotailo ’20, Edgar Melgar ’21, Camila Bustos ’21, and Ramis Wadood ’21.

Thursday, June 18, 2020

WIRAC Wins Monumental SCOTUS Case on DACA

The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, ruling that the Administration’s efforts to end DACA violated federal law.

Pat and Peter Gruber

Patricia and Peter Gruber

Monday, July 1, 2019

Gruber Foundation Gift to Support Social Justice and Human Rights

As a result of the gift, the Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic will be named for business leader and philanthropist Peter Gruber.

Friends of Ken Kelley ’66 — John Duff ’66, Carolyn Jones ’66, Al Rankin ’66 and John Nathan ’67 — gather around a plaque placed in the Lillian Goldman Law Library in his memory.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Memories of Fallen Classmate Ken Kelley ’66 Inspire Scholarship Giving

After alumni discovered that a plaque in memory of their friend Kendrick King Kelley III ’66 was missing from the Law School, they started a scholarship fund in his name and returned to the School with his friends and family for the plaque's replacement.

A view of the newly renovated courtyard at Baker Hall.

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Yale Law School Celebrates the Opening of Baker Hall

A jubilant crowd gathered at the newly opened Robert C. and Christina Baker Hall on September 20, 2018, for a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony and dedication.

WIRAC students gather and work through the night on immigration lawsuit challenging the refugee and Muslim ban. Photo Credit: Jessica Hill. 

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Yale Law Clinic Secures Victory in Challenge to Refugee and Muslim Ban Executive Order

Late in the evening on January 28, 2017, a federal judge in Brooklyn issued a nationwide temporary stay blocking the U.S. government from deporting people pursuant to the Trump Administration’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order.

Monday, March 21, 2016

China Center Receives $30 Million Gift in Honor of Dr. Paul Tsai

Yale Law School has received a gift of $30 million in honor of its distinguished alumnus, the late Dr. Paul C. Tsai, LL.M ’54, J.S.D. ’57, to support the continuing work of the Law School’s China Center.

Islamic tile mosaic

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Gift to Establish Center for Islamic Law and Civilization

Yale University President Peter Salovey and Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post announced today a $10 million gift to create the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School. 

View of YLS building and stonework owl

Friday, August 7, 2015

Gift Establishes Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School

The conference, The New Health Care Industry: Integration, Consolidation, Competition in the Wake of the Affordable Care Act, will be held on November 13, with the celebratory launch of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School on November 12. 

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