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Professor Scott Shapiro in his cybersecurity class, seated in front of a screen with a projected news story on ransomware.

Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law Scott J. Shapiro ’90 talks to his cybersecurity class, which gives students the technological background to address issues like digital policy and national security. “It is extraordinarily difficult for law students and for legal scholars such as myself to talk intelligently about regulating an activity that we can’t even imagine,” he said. 

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

 If Students Can Hack This Course, They’re Ready for Information Age Lawyering

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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Professor Liscow on Taxation, Teaching, and a New Approach to Behavioral Economics

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Settlement Confirms National Guard Members in State Status May Unionize

Monday, May 16, 2022

Start-up Within a Clinic: the Tech Accountability & Competition Project at MFIA

Friday, February 25, 2022

Kiev, Ukraine

The Pecherskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine in 2019.

Law Faculty Offer Analysis of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Jocelyn Samuels

Jocelyn Samuels to Deliver Gruber Lecture on March 7

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Northern Correctional

Connecticut's only supermax prison, Northern Correctional Institution, closed on July 1, 2021, after years of work by the Lowenstein Clinic.

Tackling Human Rights at Home and Across the Globe

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

law library

A Year in Books: Faculty Elevated New Ideas on a Range of Critical Issues

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Looking Back at a Year of Work with Impact

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Students from the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic travelled to South Korea to interview LGBT youth for a newly released report. © 2018 Gowun Lee

Lowenstein Clinic Students Research the Experiences of LGBT Youth in South Korea

Monday, October 11, 2021

Vivek Maru

Vivek Maru ’01 to Deliver Gruber Lecture on Oct. 25

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Jin Pu-reun, who was threatened by peers in high school because she was a lesbian, became a blogger to support other LGBT kids in South Korea. Her experience was part of a report by the Lowenstein Clinic and Human Rights Watch.

Lowenstein Clinic and Human Rights Watch Issue Report on LGBT Youth in South Korea

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The clinics at YLS offer students incomparable experiences in representation of poor and marginalized individuals and communities, real-world engagement in complex fields of law, and the development of strategic judgment critical to effective lawyering.”

Professor Muneer Ahmad

Deputy Dean for Experiential Education