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International Human Rights: Fostering a Diverse & Holistic Array of Student Opportunities
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights supports tomorrow’s leaders in human rights through broad and evolving academic programming, clinical work, and fellowships.
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Q&A: Professor Heather Gerken Discusses Progressive Federalism
Professor Heather Gerken explains how federalism and localism can be useful sites of politicking for people of all political stripes.
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The American Philosophical Society Elects Linda Greenhouse as First Woman President
On November 11, 2016, the Members of the American Philosophical Society (APS) elected Linda Greenhouse their 37th President.
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Everlasting and Divine
Professor Tony Kronman’s new book, Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan, discusses the theology of life—from politics to art. For the past twelve years, Sterling Professor of Law Tony Kronman ’75 has been teaching in the Directed Studies Program in Yale College—a traditional ‘great books’ course for freshman. In Education’s End (2007), he described the principles of liberal education that underlie DS and other programs like it. Now Kronman has written a new book that addresses one of the central questions that he and his students in Directed Studies confront each year: Is the modern world a...
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Miriam Gohara to Join Yale Law School Faculty
Dean Robert C. Post ’77 has announced the appointment of Miriam Gohara to the Yale Law School faculty. She will join as a clinical associate professor of law on January 1, 2017.
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Dean Post to Speak at Symposium on 'Truth in the Internet Age'
“Truth in the Internet Age” is the focus of a Yale symposium to be held on campus on Wednesday, Nov. 9, the day after the 2016 presidential election. Dean Robert C. Post will speak at the event.
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The China Law Review Publishes Gewirtz Article on Constitutionalism
The China Law Review, one of China’s leading legal publications, has just published (in Chinese) an article by Center Director Paul Gewirtz.
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Professor Fiss Delivers Remarks to Reunion of Justice Brennan Clerks
Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, spoke at a reunion of former law clerks of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. on October 1, 2016. The event was held at the Supreme Court and was sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice. Fiss clerked for Justice Brennan from 1965 to 1966. October 1, 2016 Brennan and the Struggle for Civil Rights Owen Fiss Although the Justice was not on the Court at the time of Brown v. Board of Education, he soon made clear his commitment to that decision and the reforms it required. He was the one responsible for the stirring...
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Inaugural Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum Held in September
Professor Dan Esty ’86, the director of the Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum, opened the event on September 21 with remarks on “Sustainability as a Megatrend in the 21st Century.”
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The History of Economics
David Singh Grewal ’02 received tenure and was promoted to the title of Professor of Law at Yale Law School on July 1, 2016. His teaching and research interests include legal and political theory; global economic governance, particularly international trade law; intellectual property law and biotechnology; and law and economics.