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The Media and Freedom Information Access Clinic secured a victory in a Missouri Circuit Court on March 21, 2016 when a judge ruled that the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) was required under state law to disclose the names of the pharmacies from which it purchases the drugs used to execute inmates on death row.

Yale Law School will hold a conference titled “Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution," on April 12, 2016.

Yale Law School has received a gift of $30 million in honor of its distinguished alumnus, the late Dr. Paul C. Tsai, LL.M ’54, J.S.D. ’57, to support the continuing work of the Law School’s China Center.

Arnold Giammarco, a deported Connecticut resident recently subpoenaed by the Connecticut Judiciary Committee to testify at a hearing on April 4, won a victory in federal court.

Kaaryn Gustafson, Professor of Law at UC–Irvine School of Law, will give a lecture titled “Bastardy, Debt, and Social Control” on March 21, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge. This 2015–2016 James A. Thomas Lecture will highlight Gustafson’s historical research on America’s orphan and bastardy laws.

The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of John B. King Jr. ’07 to be Secretary of Education on March 15, 2016.

Justice Susanne Baer of the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany will deliver the Judge Jon O. Newman Lecture on March 28, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. Her lecture is titled “Rights Under Pressure: Practicing Constitutional Law in Turbulent Times.”

Students from the Yale Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society and Yale Law Democrats met with policy makers and elected officials during an annual trip to Washington, D.C. on March 3-4, 2016.