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Yale Law School faculty, former and current Bernstein fellows, colleagues, alumni, and Bernstein family members gathered for the tribute to Bernstein—a man who has devoted his life to the defense of freedom of expression and the protection of victims of injustice and abuse throughout the world.

America enjoys one of the world’s highest standards of living, and its representative democracy and political stability are widely admired symbols of western political values. At the same time, however, most Americans—Democrats as well as Republicans—have lost confidence in the federal government and believe its domestic policies tend to be ineffective, or worse.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia visited Yale Law School on Thursday, April 3, meeting with the Yale Law Federalist Society, students, and members of the faculty.

Karl Eikenberry, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Commanding General of Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, will deliver a lecture titled "The End of America's Long War and the Future of Afghanistan" at Yale Law School on Thursday, April 10, 2014.

The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, in conjunction with the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, has recently released two reports on homelessness in the United States.

Professor Harold Koh received the 2014 Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice on March 18 at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

The seventeenth annual Liman Public Interest Colloquium, Isolation and Reintegration: Punishment Circa 2014, will be held at Yale Law School on April 3, 2014.

Yale Law School and Yale University Bands will pay tribute to the late Yale Law School Professor and jazz musician Stan Wheeler during a concert on April 7.