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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11-year Legal Battle Ends with Clinic Victory
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at Yale Law School ended an 11-year legal battle on Monday, after a gag order forbidding their client from speaking about a National Security Letter (NSL) he received from the FBI was lifted.
The Accounting Rules That Bankrupt Cities—A Commentary by Jeremy Liss ’16
Jeremy Liss ’16 wrote a commentary that was published in The Atlantic focusing on the fiscal crises in Detroit and other cities. Read the commentary.
Students Collaborate on Comments to HHS
On November 8, in collaboration with Professors Elizabeth Sepper from the Washington University School of Law and Jessica Roberts from the University of Houston Law Center, Yale Law School students Elizabeth Dervan ’17 and Elizabeth Deutsch ’16 submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on a new provision.
The Architecture of Medical-Legal Partnerships
Every Friday I help provide legal aid to veterans struggling with mental illness, homelessness,and poverty. The Connecticut Veterans Legal Center (CVLC) in West Haven, where I volunteer, shares a large partitioned space with a VA outpatient clinic.
Yale ACS Hosts Conference, October 16–17
The American Constitution Society at Yale Law School will host a national conference to discuss how law shapes and is shaped by extreme economic inequality on October 16 and 17, 2015, at Yale Law School.
Human Rights Center Announces JUNCTURE, Yearlong Initiative on Art and Human Rights
Seeking to foster new and creative cross-disciplinary approaches to the study and practice of human rights and the arts, the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School has launched a new initiative called JUNCTURE.
David Berke ’17 Named Winner of Student Writing Competition
David Berke ’17 was the first-place winner of the 2015 Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition. Berke’s paper, “ Family Values: An Evaluation of Internal Revenue Code Sections 2703 and 2704 (b),” was published in the ACTEC Law Journal, Volume 41, Number 1 in spring of 2016. The competition was created by the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel’s Legal Education Committee, which consists of law school professors who teach in the area of trusts and estates and practitioners who teach as adjuncts in the trusts and estates field. The competition honors the late Mary Moers Wenig, a...
Research Analyzes Behavior of Elite Americans Toward Wealth Distribution
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...
Gag Order Lifted on Nicholas Merrill Through MFIA Clinic Case Win
A federal district court has ordered the FBI to lift an eleven-year-old gag order imposed on Nicholas Merrill forbidding him from speaking about a National Security Letter (“NSL”) that the FBI served on him in 2004. The ruling marks the first time that an NSL gag order has been lifted in full since the PATRIOT Act vastly expanded the scope of the FBI’s NSL authority in 2001. Mr. Merrill, the executive director of the Calyx Institute, is represented by law students and supervising attorneys of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, a program of Yale Law School’s Abrams Institute for...
Benjamin Perryman, JSD Student, Receives Trudeau Scholarship
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in Canada has named Benjamin Perryman ’13 LLM a Trudeau scholar.