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Solomon Center Hires Executive Director
Tamar Ezer will be the Executive Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy beginning July 1, 2016.
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Students Encouraged to Make a Difference
More than 200 graduates of Yale Law School participated in commencement ceremonies on Monday afternoon at the William K. Lanman Center at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, surrounded by friends, family, and the Law School faculty. Watch the video, see photos, and read speeches.
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Yale Law School Mourns the Passing of Professor Jan Deutsch
Yale Law School Professor Emeritus Jan Ginter Deutsch '62 died on May 19, 2016.
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Professor Graetz Publishes New Book On International Income Taxation
Renowned tax expert Michael J. Graetz has published a new book titled “Follow the Money: Essays On International Taxation.”
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Rebecca Crootof ’11 Named Executive Director of Yale ISP
The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School has announced the appointment of Rebecca Crootof ’11 JD, ’16 PhD as its new executive director.
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A Tribute to Michael Ratner
Michael Ratner, for decades President of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and a long-time faculty supervisor of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, passed away at age 72 on May 11, 2016.
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Professor Kahn Publishes Book on the Art of the Judicial Opinion
Paul W. Kahn ’80, the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, has just published his tenth book: Making the Case: The Art of Judicial Opinion
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Criminal Justice Clinic Client Has Prison Sentence Commuted by President Obama
On May 5, 2016, President Barack Obama granted a petition for clemency for a client of the Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic at Yale Law School.