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Professor Gluck Attends Cancer Moonshot Summit
Professor Abbe Gluck ’00 attended The Cancer Moonshot Summit on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 in Washington D.C., on behalf of the Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy at Yale Law School. The Cancer Moonshot Summit, an initiative led by Vice President Joseph Biden, is aimed at creating action and fostering collaborations around the goals of the Cancer Moonshot. The Summit is the first time that stakeholders representing all types of cancers have convened under one national charge. Attendees at summits across the nation included leaders representing the entire cancer community such as researchers...
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MFIA Clinic and Abrams Institute File Amicus Brief in Ag-Gag Case
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed an amicus brief challenging an Idaho law that makes it a crime to record slaughterhouses, feed lots, and other agricultural production facilities unless the owner explicitly consents.
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Graetz and Greenhouse Publish Book on the Burger Court
Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL put forth a new and comprehensive evaluation of the Warren Burger Supreme Court in a new book.
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Professor Ellickson Honored with Ronald H. Coase Medal
Professor Robert C. Ellickson ’66 was recently awarded the Ronald H. Coase Medal at the 26th Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association.
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Blair Kauffman Receives AALL’s Highest Honor
Blair Kauffman, Law Librarian and Professor of Law, will receive the 2016 Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)—the organization’s highest honor. Kauffman will retire in June 2016 after 22 years at the helm of the library. “In addition to providing education and professional development, the American Association of Law Libraries has provided numerous service opportunities during my career,” Kauffman said. “I am delighted to have been chosen as a 2016 Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award recipient, and I look...
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Miguel-Stearns to Become Head of YLS Library
Teresa Miguel-Stearns has been appointed as Law Librarian and Professor of Law for the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School. She succeeds Blair Kauffman, who will retire in June 2016 after 22 years at the helm of the library.
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Yale Law School Mourns the Passing of Professor Jan Deutsch
Yale Law School Professor Emeritus Jan Ginter Deutsch '62 died on May 19, 2016.
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Professor Graetz Publishes New Book On International Income Taxation
Renowned tax expert Michael J. Graetz has published a new book titled “Follow the Money: Essays On International Taxation.”
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Professor Gluck Named to NY State Health Task Force
Abbe R. Gluck ’00, Professor of Law, has been appointed to the New York State Department of Health Task Force on Life and the Law.
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Professor Kahn Publishes Book on the Art of the Judicial Opinion
Paul W. Kahn ’80, the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, has just published his tenth book: Making the Case: The Art of Judicial Opinion