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Professor Amar To Release New Book, The Constitution Today
In the midst of a heated presidential election and during one of the few times in modern history in which all four major federal institutions of power are in play electorally, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Reed Amar ’84 has a new book examining how the Constitution is an essential tool to confronting the pressing issues of this moment.
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Education Adequacy Project Clinic Wins 11-Year Legal Battle
After more than 11 years of litigation and an appeal to the Connecticut Supreme Court, the Yale Law School’s Education Adequacy Project (EAP) Clinic has won a sweeping landmark victory for its client, the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF).
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How Law and Organization Interact
John D. Morley ’06 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 focus on organizational law and investment management.
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SFALP Clinic Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
The San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP) looks back at the major achievements of the past decade.
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Law and Guido Calabresi
Sterling Professor Emeritus Guido Calabresi ’58 discusses the nuances found within the law and economics movement, a theoretical mode of analysis that Calabresi himself pioneered in the mid-twentieth century.
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Professor Meares to Judge MacArthur Foundation Competition
Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, will serve as an evaluating judge for a new competition recently launched that will award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places, or the planet.
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Government Responds to Captain Smith Lawsuit
The United States government has responded to a lawsuit brought by a U.S Army Captain against President Barack Obama with a motion to dismiss. The brief was filed in U.S District for the District of Columbia on July 11, 2016. The lawsuit, Smith v. Obama, was filed in May by Attorney David Remes on behalf of Captain Nathan Michael Smith. Smith is currently deployed to the Kuwait headquarters of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, which commands all forces in support of the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Professor Bruce Ackerman is collaborating with Remes on the...
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Justice for All? Re-envisioning Criminal Justice
Yale Law School’s faculty, students, and alumni work to make America’s criminal justice system more effective, intelligent, and humane.
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Yale Law School Mourns the Passing of Carroll Lucht
Carroll Lucht, a Clinical Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, died on July 3, 2016.
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Professor Rodríguez Elected Member of The American Law Institute
Cristina Rodríguez ’00, the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School, has been elected to The American Law Institute (ALI).