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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Environmental Protection Clinic Assesses Regional Electricity Market in the Western U.S.
A new report released by the Environmental Protection Clinic (EPC) assesses the clean energy policy benefits and legal risks of creating a regional wholesale electricity market in the Western United States.
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MFIA Clinic Proposes Changes to Sealing Rules
Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic at Yale Law School issued a report summarizing the results of its six-month investigation into the public availability of search warrant and electronic surveillance records in Connecticut’s federal courts.
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Appellate Court Rules Veterans Can Pursue Class Actions Over VA Delays
On April 26, 2017, the Federal Circuit ruled that veterans seeking to challenge delays at the VA may aggregate their claims and file a class action.
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SFALP Case on Sanctuary Cities Wins Major Victory in Court
A federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration from denying funding to sanctuary cities, a victory for Yale Law clinic students who aided the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office in filing the case.
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MFIA Clinic, ACLU Sue LAPD Over Access to Public Documents
The ACLU Foundation of Southern California and Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed a lawsuit on April 25, 2017 against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) alleging flagrant violations of the California Public Records Act (CPRA).
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2017–2018 Liman Fellows Announced
The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law announced the selection of nine new Fellows for 2017–2018 and the provision of extensions to four current Fellows.
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Five Yale Law Students Selected for Soros Fellowships
Five Yale Law students have received 2017 the 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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Clinic Files Amicus Brief on Debt Collection
The Mortgage Foreclosure Litigation Clinic at Yale Law School (MFLC), along with its partners, has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA, which is scheduled for argument this Tuesday, April 18.
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Clinic Explores Citizen Participation in Lawmaking at Parliamentary Conference
Members of Yale Law School’s Governance Innovation Clinic recently participated in ParlAmericas’s Second Annual Gathering of the Open Parliament Network.
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Five Communities Demand EPA Respond to Civil Rights Complaints
Yale Law School’s new Environmental Justice Clinic, which launched in January, is representing the plaintiffs with co-counsel Earthjustice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.