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Liman at 20: Public Interest(s): Launching The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law
After two decades of promoting equal access to justice through fellowships, research, seminars, and programs, the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program has been re-established as the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
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Yale Law School Flourishes Under Deanship of Robert C. Post ’77
In the eight years that Dean Robert C. Post ’77 has been at the helm of Yale Law School, he has solidly entrenched the School’s position at the forefront of legal education.
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In Conversation with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’79
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor ’79 visited Yale Law School April 6-7, 2017, to participate in the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program’s 20th Anniversary Liman Colloquium, “Liman at 20: Public Interest(s).”
Ron Howard Will Direct Film Based on Memoir by J.D. Vance ’13
Imagine Entertainment has bought the film rights to Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir by J.D. Vance ’13.
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Heidi Kitrosser ’96 Awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
University of Minnesota Law School Professor Heidi Kitrosser '96 has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
William Malley ’92 Receives Burton Award for Distinguished Writing
William G. Malley ’92 and colleagues Laura Godfrey Zagar and Stephanie M. Regenold have been selected by the Burton Awards as recipients of the 2017 Law360 Distinguished Writing Award.
Floyd Abrams ’59 Writes New Book on First Amendment
In The Soul of the First Amendment (Yale University Press; publication date April 25, 2017), Floyd Abrams '59 examines the degree to which American law protects free speech more often, more intensely, and more controversially than is the case anywhere else in the world.
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Rule of Law Clinic Amicus Brief Asks Court to Strike Down Revised Travel Order
The Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School filed an amicus brief on behalf of 40 senior former national security officials on March 15, 2017 in support of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project’s lawsuit against the President of the United States.
Bob Bookman ’72 Starts Own Management Firm
Longtime literary and director's agent Bob Bookman '72 recently left Paradigm to become a manager/producer.
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Yale Law Students Decide the Cases in the Arbitration Project Clinic
When students from the Arbitration Project clinic step into a conference room in Hartford for a hearing, they are not representing a client on one side of the table.