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Professors Stephen Wizner, Carroll Lucht to Receive Community Advocate Award
JUNTA for Progressive Action, a New Haven-based non-profit serving the Latino and immigrant communities, will honor Professors Stephen Wizner and Carroll Lucht at their 44th Anniversary gala. Wizner and Lucht have served the community through legal work for decades.
ABA Honors Professor Jerry Mashaw, Alumnus Kevin Stack ’97 with Administrative Law Award
Professors Jerry L. Mashaw and Kevin M. Stack ’97 have been jointly chosen for the American Bar Association’s 2013 Annual Scholarship Award for best published work in administrative law.
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Rolling Law Out to the Streets
Yale Law School Professors Tracey Meares and Tom Tyler are working at the forefront of two issues faced by police across the country: reducing gun violence and improving the legitimacy of law enforcement. Both Meares and Tyler are leading the way in using research and cutting-edge theory in law and social science to create strategies to promote crime reduction, procedural justice, and legitimacy of law. “We’re really concerned with getting law rolled out to the street,” Tyler says. “This is not about abstract legal doctrine.” Hanging on the wall opposite Professor Tracey Meares’s desk is what...
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Teaching Written Advocacy
Noah Messing ’00 is the author of The Art of Advocacy: Briefs, Motions, and Writing Strategies of America's Best Lawyers and teaches, with Rob Harrison ’74, legal writing at Yale Law School.
Professor Witt Awarded ABA Silver Gavel Award for Lincoln’s Code
Professor John Fabian Witt has been awarded the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for his book, Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History.
Professor Judith Resnik to Receive Top Honor from National Association of Women Lawyers
Professor Judith Resnik will receive the Arabella Babb Mansfield Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers for her professional achievement and contribution to the advancement of women's interests under the law.
Professors John Fabian Witt '99 and James Oakes to Discuss New Books on Civil War, Emancipation
Professors John Fabian Witt ‘99 and James Oakes will discuss their new works about the Civil War and emancipation on Monday, April 8, 2013.
Tracey L. Meares to Discuss Reducing Violent Crime in Walton Hale Hamilton Inaugural Lecture
The lecture will discuss a book project led by Meares and colleagues aimed at documenting and explaining efforts to address violent crime in several major cities across the country.
Professor Harold Koh Receives 2013 William Green Award
Professor Harold Hongju Koh receives 2013 William Green Award for Professional Excellence from the University of Richmond School of Law.
New Elections Performance Index Inspired by Prof. Heather Gerken’s Democracy Index
J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law Heather Gerken's book Democracy Index inspires new Elections Performance Index.