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YLS Community Shares Expertise on COVID-19
Members of the Yale Law School community are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, offering expertise in their respective fields from health care to national security to the economy.
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YLS Alumnus Makes Large Donation of PPE to Yale New Haven Hospital
A Yale Law School alumnus has made a large donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) to Yale-New Haven Hospital to assist in its efforts to treat patients with COVID-19.
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New Study Explores the Changing Diversity of Law Students
A new study of American Bar Foundation (ABF)-sponsored study of law student demographics builds on a 2017 report sponsored by Yale Law School.
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Jerome Alan Cohen ’55 Receives Honorary Doctor of Laws
Jerome Alan Cohen ’55, a pioneering scholar of Chinese law in the United States, received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Yale University on May 18, 2020.
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Solomon Center Launches New Elder Law Project
Over the 2019–2020 academic year, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School launched The Adrienne C. Drell and Franklin W. Nitikman Elder Law Project to explore aging and the law.
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Yale Law Commencement 2020 — Coming Together While Apart
In an online celebration on Monday, May 18, 2020, 229 graduates of Yale Law School were celebrated for the indelible mark the class of 2020 has left on the School and the world.
Martin R. Martos, II ’10 Joins Fox Rothschild LLP
Martin R. Martos, II ’10 has joined Fox Rothschild LLP in Chicago as a partner in the Litigation Department.
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WATCH: Professor John Fabian Witt on the Legal History of Contagious Disease in the U.S.
Professor John Fabian Witt ’99 has produced a series of short Zoom lectures on the legal history of epidemics and infectious diseases in the U.S.
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Remembering Barbara Allen Babcock ’63 LL.B.
Barbara Allen Babcock ’63 LL.B., the first woman member of the Stanford University Law School faculty, died April 18, 2020 at the age of 81.
Jonathan Kravis '04 Joins Special Counsel for Public Corruption at OAG
Former federal prosecutor Jonathan Kravis '04 has joined the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) as Special Counsel for Public Corruption.