Faculty News

A study appearing in Science Magazine analyzes how elite Americans display distinctive attitudes on questions concerning economic inequality. The study by authors Daniel Markovits ’00, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School, along with Raymond Fisman (Boston University), Pamela Jakiela (University of Maryland), and Shachar Kariv (University of California, Berkeley), included students at Yale Law School, the University of California, Berkeley, and a sample group from the American Life Panel, an Internet survey of a diverse population of U.S. adults. The study included experiments...

Issa Kohler-Hausmann ‘08, Associate Professor of Law, will receive the 2015 Outstanding Article Award from The American Society of Criminology at the society’s annual meeting on November 18. The award is for her paper “Misdemeanor Justice: Control without Conviction,” which appeared in the American Journal of Sociology. The American Society of Criminology Outstanding Article Award, established in 2006, honors exceptional contributions made by scholars in article form. The award is given annually for the peer-reviewed article that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in...

Yale University President Peter Salovey and Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post announced today a $10 million gift to create the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School.

The award recognizes Peters and Bryant for their teaching and scholarship on clinical pedagogy.

Yale Law School Professor Emeritus Robert A. Burt ’64, died August 3, 2015 in Massachusetts at the age of 75.

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.”

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, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, surveys the major legal controversies surrounding U.S. counterterrorism policies post-9/11.

Yale Law School’s 2015 Commencement ceremony will take place on Monday, May 18, 2015.

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.