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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ROLC, NAACP Sue Connecticut Over Prison Gerrymandering
Yale Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic has filed a lawsuit together with The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the NAACP Connecticut State Conference, and five individual NAACP members against the State of Connecticut challenging the practice known as “prison gerrymandering.”
WCS & Yale Clinic Release Report on Preserving Moskitia Forest Corridor
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Yale University's Environmental Protection Clinic have created a plan to preserve one of the last intact forest strongholds for the jaguar and other iconic species in Central America: the Moskitia Forest Corridor. In a new report titled “ Stopping the Tide: A Strategy for Maintaining Forest Connectivity within the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor,” the authors lay out recommendations on how to protect the ecologically vital forest landscape that straddles both Honduras and Nicaragua. One of the primary findings of the report is that conservation...
Righting a Wrongful Conviction
Vernon Horn served 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. But his fate changed when the Yale Law School community got involved.
Schell Center Names 2018-2019 Post-Graduate Fellows
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights announced its fellows for the 2018–19 academic year.
Appellate Litigation Project Secures Second Circuit Victory
Students from the Advanced Appellate Litigation Project (ALP) secured a victory in May for a former prisoner who alleged that he was denied meals complying with his religious dietary restrictions.
Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
How Employers Illegally Discriminate Against Veterans with Less-than-Honorable Discharges—A Commentary by Alyssa Peterson ’19 and Arjun Mody ’20
Student Presents at inaugural Supranational Democracy Dialogue Conference
In April 2018, Gabriella Capone (JD/MBA ’19) presented at the inaugural Supranational Democracy Dialogue, a two-day convening of global academics, practitioners, and activists promoting democratic participation above the level of the nation-state.
Student Idea Leads to Action from SF City Attorney
After a student in the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP) pitched him the idea, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera penned a letter urging acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Mick Mulvaney to continue robust enforcement against predatory and unlawful business practices. “To retreat from the vigorous enforcement that has been the hallmark of this agency would be to undermine the will of Congress, ignore the abuses that fueled the Bureau’s creation, and would serve to abandon the country’s most vulnerable consumers,” Herrera wrote. San...
Yale Law School 2018 Commencement—The Power of Law—PHOTOS, VIDEO, SPEECHES
More than 200 graduates of Yale Law School participated in commencement ceremonies on Monday afternoon at the William K. Lanman Center at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, surrounded by friends, family, and the Law School faculty.
Ethics Bureau Has Winning Argument in SCOTUS Case
On May 14, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a Louisiana death row inmate’s conviction for a 2008 triple murder, siding in favor with an argument put forth by the Ethics Bureau at Yale. The clinic has been advocating for the defendant in the case, Robert McCoy, for several years.