Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Landmark Conference on the Affordable Care Act Happening Sept. 26-27
The event will bring together key players involved in the ACA's passage and implementation as well as an interdisciplinary group of scholars to assess the legislation’s successes, shortcomings, and future.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Professor Markovits on the Meritocracy Trap
Guido Calabresi Professor of Law Daniel Markovits ’00 discusses the problems with meritocracy in his new book The Meritocracy Trap.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Law, Ethics & Animals Program to Launch
A new initiative, the Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) will launch during the 2019–2020 academic year dedicated to drawing attention to the questions of conscience raised by human-animal relationships and developing new strategies to address industrialized animal cruelty.
Friday, August 30, 2019
Connecticut Supreme Court Cites Housing Clinic Brief in Win for Tenants
The Connecticut Supreme Court cited a brief written by Yale Law School’s Housing Clinic when it ruled that landlords may not include “extraneous and irrelevant charges” in eviction paperwork, affirming that tenants of subsidized housing have a right to know how much they must pay to keep their homes.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Gideon Yaffe to Present Inaugural Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Lecture
Professor Gideon Yaffe will give the inaugural Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Lecture on September 23, 2019.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Housing Clinic Scores Connecticut Supreme Court Win for Mortgage Borrowers
The Housing Clinic scored a long-fought victory for homeowners when the Connecticut Supreme Court's ruling in in U.S. Bank v. Blowers broadened what sort of bank misconduct mortgage borrowers can raise when defending against a foreclosure action.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Professor Kronman On Higher Education and Democracy
Read an excerpt from The Assault on American Excellence, a new book by Professor Anthony Kronman ’75.
Monday, August 12, 2019
Rediscovering a Lost Treatise on Martial Law
For a century, a manuscript by Francis Lieber, political theorist and legal adviser to Abraham Lincoln, lay lost in the recesses of the National Archives — until it was discovered by Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law John Fabian Witt ’99 and Will Smiley ’14.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Professor John H. Langbein Wins Frankel Fiduciary Prize
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Legal History John H. Langbein has been awarded the 2019 Frankel Fiduciary Prize.
Friday, August 2, 2019
Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic Honored by NAACP
The Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic received the Foot Soldier in the Sands Award at the NAACP national convention in Detroit for representing the organization in three lawsuits.