Yale Law School’s renowned and distinguished faculty members consistently engage in an extraordinary range of activities and scholarship. Read the extensive list of faculty activities and accomplishments —from lectures given to books published to honors and awards received—by browsing our academic archives on the right, reading our faculty news feed below, or viewing the Yale Law Report. Read commentaries in the popular press and other news clips on our In the Press page.
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Anne Alstott on the Benefits of Public Options
Jacquin D. Bierman Professor Anne Alstott ’87 and coauthor Ganesh Sitaraman argue in their new book that public options — like schools, libraries, and the postal service — are all around us and can be a solution to inequalities.
Professor Fiss Meets with Argentine President, Recalling 1985 Visit
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Owen M. Fiss recently met with Argentine President Mauricio Macri at the presidential residence in Buenos Aires, a visit that commemorated Fiss's first trip to Argentina in 1985.
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Professor Fiss Receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Chile
The University of Chile awarded an honorary doctorate to Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Owen M. Fiss.
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A Defense of Democratic Populism
In his most recent book, Revolutionary Constitutions, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman ‘67 argues that the indiscriminate condemnation of “populism” is a big mistake. Though it has become a term of derision, he argues that many of the greatest constitutional achievements of the modern era owe their success precisely to mass popular mobilizations that succeed in repudiating illegitimate power structures imposed by the old regime. Ackerman outlines the four stages of this revolutionary dynamic: mobilized insurgency, triumphant constitutionalization of principles...
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Douglas Kysar Wins Teaching Award from Yale School of Management
Douglas Kysar, Deputy Dean and Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law, received one of the Yale School of Management’s 2018-19 MBA for Executives Teaching Awards.
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Jean Koh Peters Receives Connecticut Bar Foundation Honor
Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law Jean Koh Peters received the Legal Services Leadership Award from the Connecticut Bar Foundation for her work representing people with low incomes, especially children and refugees, in the state.
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Professor Ackerman Speaks at National Constitution Center
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman ’67 spoke at the National Constitution Center about his new book.
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Professor Kohler-Hausmann’s Book Wins Awards
Associate Professor of Law Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08 has won several recent accolades for her book Misdemeanorland.
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Federal Bar Council Honors Guido Calabresi
The Federal Bar Council honored Sterling Professor Emeritus Guido Calabresi ’58 with its Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence.
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Is the Constitution the Problem?
Democracy and Dysfunction (University of Chicago Press 2019) features a series of exchanges about our current political predicament between two prominent scholars of American constitutional law, Jack M. Balkin of Yale Law School and Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas.