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Alumni Address Pressing Environmental Challenges
Two Law School alumni discuss their efforts to address some of the most pressing challenges of climate change nationally and across the globe through litigation, regulation, governance, and more.
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Professor Pottenger Receives Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award
Professor J.L. Pottenger Jr. ’75 received the Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award on April 20 from the Connecticut Bar Association.
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Lowenstein Clinic and CRR Submit Brief on Sexual Violence to Inter-American Court
The Lowenstein Clinic and the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted the amicus brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a case alleging that Bolivia had failed to prevent, investigate, or punish someone for who had repeatedly raped a child.
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Craig Newmark Philanthropies Continues Support for MFIA Clinic
The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) clinic at Yale Law School has received a third year of support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
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Two Students Receive 2022 Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Two Yale Law School students are recipients of the 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.
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Conference Highlights Professor Kahn’s Work
The work and jurisprudence of Professor Paul Kahn ’80 was discussed in a two-day workshop Law and Political Imagination on April 7 and 8 co-organized by the Edinburgh Law School Centre for Legal Theory.
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Chai Feldblum Addresses Attitudes Toward People with Disabilities and Employment
Chai Feldblum, a leading civil rights advocate and legal scholar, delivered a lecture, “Transforming Employment for People with Significant Disabilities.”
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Michael Breen ’11 on Building Capacity and Coalitions
Michael Breen ’11, President and Chief Executive Officer of Human Rights First, led the Human Rights Workshop on April 7.