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
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.
Michael Clemente ’16 Received 2015 Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing
Yale Law School student Michael Clemente ’16 received a 2015 Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing for his paper titled “A Reassessment of Common Law Protections for ‘Idiots.’”
The Yale Law Journal Launches New Podcast Series
The Yale Law Journal launches podcast series aimed at expanding digital engagement with the innovative scholarship appearing in the Journal.
Two Yale Law School Students Receive Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowships
Grace Kao ’15 and Kathryn Madison ’15 are among the 25 Immigrant Justice Corps Fellows for 2015.
BLSA Reflects On Trip to U.S. Supreme Court
Students from the Black Law Students Association visited the U.S. Supreme Court last month. They met with Justice Clarence Thomas ’74 and Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’79 as well as three YLS alumni who are currently clerking at the High Court.
Soros Fellowship Awarded to Eugene Rusyn ’17
Eugene Rusyn ’17 has been named a Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellow for 2015.