This page highlights notable accomplishments and activities of current students – including clinic cases, honors, awards, student events, media mentions, books published, fellowships received, and community service. If you are a current student, we encourage you to submit story ideas and photos for inclusion on this page. If you have recently published an op-ed, were cited or quoted in the media, or published a paper, please tell us about it here. Student prizes are awarded annually.
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ACLU Secures Major Victory in Education Rights Case with Yale Law School Clinic
In a case supported by the Yale Law School Education Adequacy Project Clinic, ACLU Foundation of Southern California reached a class action settlement in Riverside County, California, ending a practice in which routine misbehavior in school put children in a diversion program similar to criminal probation.
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Report: Congress Nominates Far Fewer Women than Men to Military Service Academies
Members of the 116th Congress nominate women to the military service academies at dramatically different rates, according to a new report authored by Yale Law School’s Veterans Legal Services Clinic for the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center.
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Clinic Helps Obtain $305 Million Settlement in Lead Paint Litigation
After 20 years, Yale Law School clinic students helped San Francisco and nine other localities achieve a landmark victory in their litigation against lead paint companies with a $305 million settlement.
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Students Help Pass HIV Drug Law for Youth
Two students in the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy's Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP), Hannah Hussey ’20 and Owen Monkemeier ’19 successfully advocated for the passage of a new Connecticut law making HIV-preventing drugs available to some of the state’s most vulnerable youth.
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Defense Department Ordered to Turn Over Documents on Military Sexual Assault
On July 12, 2019, a U.S. District Court in Connecticut ordered the government to disclose key documents related to bias in the military justice system, in a lawsuit brought by Protect our Defenders and the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center. The plaintiffs are represented by the Veterans Legal Service Clinic at Yale Law School.
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Court Agrees with Ethics Bureau that Judge in Terrorism Case Acted Improperly
A federal appeals court agreed with the Ethics Bureau at Yale that the military judge in the USS Cole bombing case acted improperly, ruling that years of proceedings under that judge must be thrown out.
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Studying Criminal Justice from the Inside Out
Students get a deeply personal and powerful look at the criminal justice system by learning side-by-side with classmates inside a prison