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
New Report Details COVID-Related Threats to Indigenous Peoples and Environment
The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School and the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) released a report documenting the erosion of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, damage to forest environments, and violence resulting from government responses to the pandemic and ensuing global recession.
The Hartford Courant
Disability rights group alleges abuse of people with mental illness at state’s maximum-security prison in suit against Department of Correction
Lowenstein Clinic Represents Disability Rights Group in CT Supermax Prison Lawsuit
The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and partner organizations filed a lawsuit against the Connecticut Department of Correction on February 4, 2021.
Innovative Gun Violence Course Generates Novel Journal Issue
The Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy and the Justice Collaboratory have teamed up to publish a groundbreaking special issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (JLME) devoted to the gun violence epidemic.
Free Exercise Clinic Launches Interactive Workshop Series
This spring, Yale Law School’s Free Exercise Clinic is launching an interactive workshop, and has invited students and faculty in the religious liberty clinics at Harvard, Stanford and Texas to join each of the seven class sessions.
Sending a message
Uzoma Orchingwa ’22 has cofounded a nonprofit startup to challenge the for-profit prison telecom industry with an alternative to help people in prison communicate better with family and friends on the outside.
Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic Secures Historic Sentence Modification
The Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic helped win an unprecedented sentence modification for one of its clients.
In Debut Novel, Yale Law Student Explores Moral Terrain
Yale News spoke to David Hopen ’23 about his debut novel, The Orchard.