Monday, November 3
Nov
3
How to Catch a War Criminal in the 21st Century
10:00AM - 5:00PM
Humanities Quadrangle (320 York Street)
This symposium brings together leading practitioners, scholars, lawyers, and journalists to examine how accountability mechanisms have evolved and how they must continue to adapt to meet the...
Nov
3
DIY Trail Mix Fix
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Ruttenberg Dining Hall
Take a moment to pause and enjoy the season with a make-your-own trail mix pop-up tabling event! Choose from a variety of sweet and savory ingredients to create a personalized snack, connect with...
Nov
3
Pathways in Transactional Law
12:10PM - 1:00PM
SLB Room 120
The Yale Law & Business Society (YLBS) invites you to hear from attorneys at Hogan Lovells, Kirkland & Ellis, Cleary Gottlieb, and Simpson Thacher as they discuss what transactional law really looks...
Tuesday, November 4
Nov
4
Wednesday, November 5
Nov
5
Schell Center Info Session: Opportunities at the International Committee of the Red Cross
9:00AM - 10:00AM
SLB Room 121
Hear from former Schell fellows currently working at the ICRC about the work of this frontline humanitarian organization and how it has changed in recent years.
Nov
5
Agnieszka Rafalska ’12: “Life as a Private Equity General Counsel”
12:10PM - 1:00PM
SLB Room 128
Agnieszka Rafalska ’12 serves as Head of Legal M&A for North America at EQT, a global investment organization with Nordic roots and €266 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2025.
Nov
5
FGP Presents: Summer at a Law Firm
12:10PM - 1:00PM
Baker Room 120
Please join First Generation Professionals for a panel featuring attorneys from O'Melveny, Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, and Paul, Weiss. Lunch provided.
Nov
5
Information Session for Latin American Linkage Summer Exchange Program
12:10PM - 1:00PM
SLB Room 124
Professors Daniel Markovits and Claire Priest will be available to answer questions students may have about the Owen M. Fiss Latin American Linkage Summer Exchange Program. This unique exchange brings...
Nov
5
PSRJ & YLW+ Present: Training the Next Generation, A Conversation with Emily Bazelon
12:10PM - 1:00PM
SLB Room 127
Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and contributes to Times editorials. She is also the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School.
Nov
5
Textualism and the 14th Amendment
12:10PM - 1:00PM
SLB Room 120
Please join the Yale Federalist Society for this event with former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell on "Textualism and the 14th Amendment."
Nov
5
1L Summer Jobs in Specialized Law Firms
4:10PM - 5:00PM
SLB Room 122
Come listen to a panel of upperclass students discuss their 1L summer jobs in specialized law firms—boutique firms, plaintiff-side firms, and public interest firms!
Nov
5
Yale Law and Philosophy Speaker Series: Sandra Mayson (Penn)
4:10PM - 6:00PM
SLB Room 120
On this occasion, the Series will host Professor Sandra Mayson (Penn, Law).
Thursday, November 6
Nov
6
Inside the FBI: Reflections on Intelligence, Leadership, & Law Enforcement Across Administrations
12:10PM - 1:00PM
SLB Room 120
A panel-style conversation with former F.B.I. officials Brian Driscoll, James Dennehy, and Steven Jensen on leadership, integrity, and the state of the current FBI and intelligence community.
Nov
6
“The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why it Matters,” with Christine Webb
12:10PM - 1:10PM
SLB Room 129
In this talk, NYU primatologist Christine Webb, author of The Arrogant Ape, will outline how human exceptionalism is an ideology that relies more on human culture than our biology.
Nov
6
Dignity in the Law: What Say You? A Legal Academic Pipeline Program
12:10PM - 1:30PM
SLB Room 127
This program invites students to engage with experts and advocates to examine dignity as a legal concept, and to consider how your voice can morph into ideas that translate these concepts and inform...
Nov
6
LPE Workshop: K. Sabeel Rahman, “Reconstructing Democracy”
12:10PM - 1:30PM
SLB Room 121
K. Sabeel Rahman is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.
Nov
6
Sheila Bedi: “Movement Lawyering & Academic Freedom during the Trump Era: Threats & Opportunities”
12:10PM - 1:30PM
SLB Room 128
Sheila A. Bedi serves as chief strategy officer and counsel to Mayor Brandon Johnson for the City of Chicago.
Nov
6
Punishment at the Crossroads
4:10PM - 6:00PM
SLB Room 127
The Keynote discussion as part of the "Punishment at the Crosswords" conference.
Nov
6
What Early Muslims Missed, the Cost, and Recent Efforts to Fill the Gap
4:15PM - 5:45PM
Calabresi Faculty Lounge
Dr. Frederick Starr's lecture will discuss the reasons behind and consequences of the decisions of early Muslim scholars not to translate into Arabic certain passages of classic Greek philosophy...
Friday, November 7
Nov
7
American Legal Histories — A Rare Book Exhibit
All Day
Lillian Goldman Law Library, Level 3 & Lower Level 2
American Legal Histories celebrates the iterative, messy, tantalizing process of historical research, in catalog records and finding aids, online images, record groups, and photographs taken in the...
Nov
7
Financial Literacy Workshop: Corporate Valuation Methodologies — Part 2 (DCF)
10:00AM - 1:00PM
Baker Room 120
This 3-hour course (part 2 of 2) will provide an overview of Corporate Valuation Methodologies commonly employed by Wall Street and other finance professionals and expose participants to terms and...
Nov
7
“The Promises and Limits of Rights,” with Professors Claire Charters & Angela Riley
10:30AM - 11:30AM
SLB Room 127
This talk brings together Angela Riley and Claire Charters – two leading scholars and advocates in the field of Indigenous rights and law – for a critical dialogue on the promises and limits of rights...
Nov
7
Democracy Workshop: Stephen Holmes, “How Democracies Perish”
12:10PM - 1:30PM
SLB Room 121
Stephen Holmes is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at NYU Law School.
Nov
7
Mandarin Language Table
12:10PM - 1:30PM
Baker Hall 434
We are delighted to host a Mandarin language table. This presents an opportunity to learn or practice your Mandarin and connect with other students interested in China while enjoying lunch! All are...
Nov
7
Hot Yoga @ Soul Sweat
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Soul Sweat (300 Crown St.)
Heat up your practice at Soul Sweat in New Haven with an energizing hot yoga flow designed to build strength, flexibility, and focus. Please make sure to bring your own Yoga mat for the session.