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Memorial Service for Professor Emeritus Robert A. Burt to be Held Nov. 1
Yale Law School Professor Emeritus Robert A. Burt ’64, died August 3, 2015 in Massachusetts at the age of 75.
Professor Jonathan R. Macey Testified Before the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
On July 23, Macey, the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law, spoke before the U.S. Senate committee on “Measuring the Systemic Importance of U.S. Bank Holding Companies.”
Professor John Langbein Receives Simeon E. Baldwin Award
Yale Law School’s Center for the Study of Corporate Law has awarded its 2015 Simeon E. Baldwin Award to John H. Langbein, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History.
Owen Fiss Authors Book on Constitutional Law After 9/11
Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, surveys the major legal controversies surrounding U.S. counterterrorism policies post-9/11.
YLS 2015 Commencement: Graduates Encouraged to Ask “Where Am I Needed?”—PHOTOS, VIDEO, SPEECHES
Yale Law School’s 2015 Commencement ceremony will take place on Monday, May 18, 2015.
Akhil Amar ’84 Authors Book of Essays on the Constitution and the States
Sterling Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar ’84 has written a book of essays, The Law of the Land (Basic Books, April 14, 2015), on the difference states make on American jurisprudence.
Professor Yaffe Named 2015 Guggenheim Fellow
Gideon Yaffe, a Professor of Law, Philosophy, and Psychology at Yale has been awarded a 2015 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Top First Amendment Lawyer to Head MFIA Clinic
David A. Schulz ’78, a leading First Amendment lawyer who has defended the rights of journalists and news organizations for more than 30 years, has been named Clinical Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at Yale Law School.
Yale Law Women Celebrates Winners of 2015 Faculty & Staff Excellence Awards
Yale Law Women (YLW) celebrated the winners of the 2015 YLW Faculty & Staff Excellence Awards. At the lunchtime ceremony, YLW presented three awards: the Faculty Excellence Award, to Professor Abbe R. Gluck; the Staff Excellence Award, to Director of Financial Aid Jill C. Stone; and the Award for Outstanding Leadership to Ruth Swift ’15.
Professor Koh Joins Foreign Law Experts to File Amicus Brief in Support of Same-Sex Marriage
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh and a group of foreign and comparative law experts have filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage.