Professor Resnik Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by UCL
Professor Judith Resnik received an honorary doctorate of laws from UCL on July 3, 2018.
WIRAC Files Emergency Lawsuit to Reunify Asylum-Seeking Families
Students from WIRAC filed emergency lawsuits on behalf of two asylum-seeking children, forcibly taken from their parents in Texas and shipped 2,000 miles to Connecticut by immigration officials.
Education Clinic Supports ACLU in Southern California Education Lawsuit
The Education Adequacy Project Clinic announced on July 2, 2018, that it had assisted the ACLU Foundation of Southern California in a landmark lawsuit filed yesterday to end school discipline policies that criminalize children of color in Riverside County, California.
ROLC, NAACP Sue Connecticut Over Prison Gerrymandering
Yale Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic has filed a lawsuit together with The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the NAACP Connecticut State Conference, and five individual NAACP members against the State of Connecticut challenging the practice known as “prison gerrymandering.”
Benjamin Woodring ’16 Quoted in Federal Court
A Yale Law recent graduate's work was quoted in a major case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
WCS & Yale Clinic Release Report on Preserving Moskitia Forest Corridor
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Yale University's Environmental Protection Clinic have created a plan to preserve one of the last intact forest strongholds for the jaguar and other iconic species in Central America: the Moskitia Forest Corridor. In a new report titled “ Stopping the Tide: A Strategy for Maintaining Forest Connectivity within the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor,” the authors lay out recommendations on how to protect the ecologically vital forest landscape that straddles both Honduras and Nicaragua. One of the primary findings of the report is that conservation...
Yale Law Journal-Stanford Law Review Publish #MeToo Symposium
The Yale Law Journal and the Stanford Law Review have collaborated to publish a special companion symposium titled, “#MeToo and the Future of Sexual Harassment Law.”
Professor NeJaime Cited by Bermuda Supreme Court in Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Professor Douglas NeJaime was cited by the Bermuda Supreme Court last week in a ruling that once again gave same-sex couples the right to marry in the country.