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...
Prof. Kohler-Hausmann to Receive Criminology Society Award
Issa Kohler-Hausmann ‘08, Associate Professor of Law, will receive the 2015 Outstanding Article Award from The American Society of Criminology at the society’s annual meeting on November 18. The award is for her paper “Misdemeanor Justice: Control without Conviction,” which appeared in the American Journal of Sociology. The American Society of Criminology Outstanding Article Award, established in 2006, honors exceptional contributions made by scholars in article form. The award is given annually for the peer-reviewed article that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in...
Professor Donald Elliott Co-authors Chapter in Book on TTP
E. Donald Elliott, Professor (Adjunct) of Law, co-authored a chapter in Rule-Makers or Rule-Takers?: Exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, edited by Daniel S. Hamilton and Jacques Pelkmans.
Gift to Establish Center for Islamic Law and Civilization
Yale University President Peter Salovey and Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post announced today a $10 million gift to create the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School.
Liman Program Releases New Report
The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School and the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) has released a new report outlining data on both the numbers and the conditions in restrictive housing nationwide.
Giuliano Amato, Judge of the Italian Constitutional Court, to Give Dean’s Lecture on September 29, 2015
Judge Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy and judge of the Italian Constitutional Court, will be in conversation with Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Guido Calabresi ’58, as part of the 2015–16 Dean’s Lectures.
Dean Robert C. Post ’77 Welcomes Class of 2018
Yale Law School’s new students gathered on Wednesday, August 26, for convocation ceremonies in the Levinson Auditorium.