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.
News
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Yale Team Reaches Semifinals of Jessup Moot Court
A team of students from Yale Law School reached the semifinals of the International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington D.C., the world’s largest moot court competition.
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Yale Law’s Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project Goes to Nationals
New Haven high school students coached by Yale law students competed at the National Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.
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Two Students Receive 2019 Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Maria Camila Bustos ’21 and Alexander Zhang J.D./Ph.D. have been awarded 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a graduate school fellowship for outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States.
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Ellis Liang ’19 Chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship
Ellis Liang ’19 is one of 14 law students and early-career attorneys chosen by the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) to participate in a two-week program in Germany and Poland this spring. The program uses the conduct of lawyers and judges in Nazi-occupied Europe as a way to reflect on ethics in the legal profession today. FASPE provides a historical lens to engage graduate students in professional schools as well as early-stage practitioners in five fields (business, journalism, law, medicine and seminary) in an intensive course of study focused on...
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MFIA and CRIT Fight for Transparency to Protect Public Health and Safety
On March 25, 2019, the Yale Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency (CRIT) and leading nonprofit consumer advocacy groups Public Citizen and the Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a joint amicus brief at the Supreme Court with the assistance of students and supervising attorneys in Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA).
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NAACP and Rule of Law Clinic File New Challenge to 2020 Census Plans
The Rule of Law Clinic at the Law School helped the NAACP, Prince George’s County, Maryland, and other plaintiffs file new claims challenging parts of the U.S. Census Bureau’s final plan for conducting the 2020 Census.
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Schell Center Announces 2019–2020 Postgraduate Fellows
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights announced its postgraduate fellows for the 2019–20 academic year. Taylor Burgess LL.M. ’19, Britta Redwood ’17, and Andrew Udelsman ’16 will be Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellows. Sebastian Bates LL.M. ’19, Nikila Kaushik LL.M. ’19, Mariana Olaizola ’19, and Mara Revkin ’16 will be Robina Foundation Human Rights Fellows.