Faculty News

Legal scholars from Yale Law School and 14 countries convened in Buenos Aires in June for the 24th annual Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitutional y Política, or SELA, this year addressing the topic of gender and equality.

One day after an appeals court heard a case that could strike down the Affordable Care Act, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy Abbe R. Gluck ’00 testified before Congress as lawmakers grappled with the potential implications of the law being overturned.

A federal appeals court agreed with the Ethics Bureau at Yale that the military judge in the USS Cole bombing case acted improperly, ruling that years of proceedings under that judge must be thrown out.

An article by Clinical Professor of Law Fiona Doherty ’99 was cited in decisions for two recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, Mont v. United States and United States v. Haymond. Both cases concern supervised release, a common practice in federal sentencing.

Working in the public and private sectors, Yale Law School graduates keep the faith in the fight against climate change.

Students get a deeply personal and powerful look at the criminal justice system by learning side-by-side with classmates inside a prison

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.

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.

The University of Chile awarded an honorary doctorate to Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Owen M. Fiss.

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...