Students Attend Monsanto Tribunal
Students from the Environmental Protection Clinic recently traveled to The Hague, Netherlands to attend the Monsanto Tribunal, an international civil society initiative aimed at holding the agrochemical company Monsanto accountable for alleged human rights violations, crimes against humanity, and for ecocide.
Q&A: Professor Heather Gerken Discusses Progressive Federalism
Professor Heather Gerken explains how federalism and localism can be useful sites of politicking for people of all political stripes.
ASCA, Liman Program Release New Report on Restrictive Housing
A new report, jointly authored by the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) and the Arthur Liman Program at Yale Law School, reflects a profound change in the national discussion about the use of what correctional officials call “restrictive housing” and what is popularly known as “solitary confinement.”
The American Philosophical Society Elects Linda Greenhouse as First Woman President
On November 11, 2016, the Members of the American Philosophical Society (APS) elected Linda Greenhouse their 37th President.
Everlasting and Divine
Professor Tony Kronman’s new book, Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan, discusses the theology of life—from politics to art. For the past twelve years, Sterling Professor of Law Tony Kronman ’75 has been teaching in the Directed Studies Program in Yale College—a traditional ‘great books’ course for freshman. In Education’s End (2007), he described the principles of liberal education that underlie DS and other programs like it. Now Kronman has written a new book that addresses one of the central questions that he and his students in Directed Studies confront each year: Is the modern world a...
CT Veteran Charged For "Homosexuality" in 1948 Sues U.S. Air Force
On November 18, 2016, Air Force veteran H. Edward Spires filed a federal lawsuit against the Secretary of the Air Force seeking to upgrade his discharge status from “undesirable” to honorable.
Clinic Hosts Panel on Criminalization of Homelessness
On November 17, Allie Frankel ’17, Hillary Vedvig ’17, and Scout Katovich ’17 hosted a panel discussion about the criminalization of homelessness in Connecticut.
Judges Newman and Winter Honored with 2016, 2017 Devitt Awards
The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation has announced that the 32nd annual Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award will be presented to Senior Judge Jon O. Newman ’56 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The foundation also announced that Judge Ralph K. Winter ’60, also of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will receive the honor in 2017.