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Financial Markets Clinic Tackles Real World Issues
The Financial Markets and Corporate Law Clinic explores theories of corporate finance in the context of emergent financial technologies and the creation of regulatory and public policy.
Students Decide the Case in Innovative Arbitration Clinic
In the Law School’s innovative Arbitration Project Clinic, students hear real cases and award damages in disputes over things such as the New Car Lemon Law Program.
YLS Students Mobilized to Protect Clients From DACA Termination
Yale Law School students mobilized to protect their clients from the abrupt termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Veterans Clinic Sues Military for Sexual Assault Records
Military Refuses to Disclose Information about its Treatment of Female Service Members
Veteran Sickened by Plutonium Brings Nationwide Class Action
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic is representing an Air Force Chief Master Sergeant who is challenging the refusal of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide disability compensation to veterans exposed to ionizing radiation
Environmental Justice Clinic Fights to End Discriminatory Dentistry Policies
The Environmental Justice Clinic at Yale Law School sent a letter on behalf of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ) urging the Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS) to rescind its policy requiring dentists to use mercury-based dental amalgam in the molar fillings of Medicaid patients.
SFALP Case on Sanctuary Cities Secures Permanent National Injunction
A federal judge in California has permanently blocked the Trump administration from denying funding to sanctuary cities, a major victory for Yale Law clinic students who worked closely with the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office in filing the case.
WIRAC Seeks Relief for 4,000 DACA Recipients Who Were Denied Renewal Applications
WIRAC students giving a press conference outside federal court on November 16, 2017. Photo credit: Make the Road New York
Report Details Effects of Haiti’s Agricultural Development Plans
A paper submitted on November 15, 2017, to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food analyzes the harm that large-scale development projects, particularly in agriculture, cause for the food security of Haiti’s rural population.