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Recent News from Our Faculty
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Fiona Doherty ’99 Awarded Yale Provost Teaching Prize
Clinical Associate Professor of Law Fiona Doherty ’99 was recently honored as one of the winners of the 2013-2014 Yale Provost’s Teaching Prize, which recognizes untenured Yale faculty who exemplify excellence in teaching.
Professors George Priest, John Witt ’99 Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, has elected Yale Law School Professors George L. Priest and John Fabian Witt ’99 to its 2014 Class of Members.
Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08 Appointed Associate Professor of Law
Kohler-Hausmann’s primary interests are in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Empirical Legal Studies, Tort Law, Sociology of Law, and Legal Theory.
Against the Profit Motive, Book by Professor Nicholas R. Parrillo ’04, Wins Hurst Award
The Law and Society Association has given the J. Willard Hurst Award, for the year’s best work in English on socio-legal history, to Professor Nicholas R. Parrillo’ 04 for his book Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780–1940 (Yale University Press, 2013).
Anika Singh Lemar to Join Yale Law School Faculty
Anika Singh Lemar is currently a Visiting Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Previously, while in private practice in New Haven, she represented clients in land use matters, affordable housing development, and urban revitalization efforts.
Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better—a book by Professor Peter H. Schuck
America enjoys one of the world’s highest standards of living, and its representative democracy and political stability are widely admired symbols of western political values. At the same time, however, most Americans—Democrats as well as Republicans—have lost confidence in the federal government and believe its domestic policies tend to be ineffective, or worse.
Professor Harold Koh Honored with Frederick K. Cox Humanitarian Award
Professor Harold Koh received the 2014 Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice on March 18 at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert Scheduled for April 6
Yale Law School and Yale University Bands will pay tribute to the late Yale Law School Professor and jazz musician Stan Wheeler during a concert on April 7.
We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution—A Book by Professor Bruce Ackerman ’67
The newly released We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution continues Bruce Ackerman's examination of the U.S. Constitution with an eye toward the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Second Reconstruction, and Brown v. Board of Education.
Professor Quintin Johnstone ’51 JSD Honored by the Connecticut Bar Association
The Connecticut Bar Association recently announced that Professor Quintin Johnstone ’51 JSD, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, will be awarded its Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award.