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
Yale Law School Announces 47 Public Interest Fellowship Recipients for 2014-2015
Yale Law School is proud to congratulate the 47 students and recent graduates who have been named recipients of public interest fellowships for 2014-2015.
Critical Race Theory Conference Scheduled for April 5
With the nation marking the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, students and scholars will come together to examine current issues involving critical race theory at the 2014 conference.
Black Law Students Association Hosts Alumni Dinner
The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) celebrated its sixth Jane M. Bolin Service Award Dinner.
Seven Yale Graduates Selected as the 2014-15 Peter and Patricia Gruber Fellows
The new Gruber fellows will work to advance the rights of diverse populations in a multitude of settings, including China, Latin America, Myanmar/Burma, Antigua and Barbuda, and the United States.
YLS Students Participate in Yale Global Health Case Competition
A team consisting of four students, including Michael Zucker '16 and Christopher Lee '16, took top honors in the second annual Global Health Case Competition, held at the Yale School of Public Health. A workable solution involves input from many disciplines—epidemiology, field-based public health practice, governance, international and humanitarian law, business and finance and international relations. The teams had to craft solutions that balanced the needs of many different actors for a public health challenge that has never really been solved before.
Seven Yale Graduates Selected as the 2014-15 Peter and Patricia Gruber Fellows
Seven Yale graduates and current students have been selected as the 2014-2015 Peter and Patricia Gruber Fellows in Global Justice and Women’s Rights.
Commencement Exercises Scheduled For May 19, 2014, at the William K. Lanman Center
Events begin at 10:30 a.m. with University Commencement exercises on Old Campus. Law School Commencement follows at approximately noon in the William K. Lanman Center at Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
Yale Law School Sets Record with Seven Students, Alumni Awarded Skadden Fellowships
Seven Yale Law School students and alumni have been awarded prestigious Skadden Public Interest Fellowships, setting a new record for the most fellowships awarded in a single year.
Dean Robert Post '77 Welcomes the Class of 2016 to Yale Law School
Dean Robert C. Post '77 delivers the convocation address to incoming Yale Law students marking the start of the 2013-2014 academic year.
Yale Law Students Awarded Soros Fellowships, Trudeau Scholarship
Amanda Alexander ’13 and Marbre Stahly-Butts ’13 were named Soros Justice Fellows in early May by the Open Society Foundations. Ryan Liss ’13 LLM was also named a Trudeau scholar in May by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in Canada.