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Dean Heather K. Gerken welcomed Yale Law School’s newest students to campus on Aug. 23, speaking at convocation about the set of traditions they are inheriting that have sustained the academic community for nearly two centuries.

The Media Freedom and Information Access clinic at Yale Law School has sued Allegheny County for preventing employees of a Pittsburgh jail from speaking to the press without permission.

In a Q&A, Douglas Kysar, the Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and faculty co-director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program, explains the legal strategies behind recent climate change lawsuits, how the law could be used to protect those most vulnerable to climate disasters, and which cases may have the best chance of success.

In their new book, Professor Ian Ayres ’86 and Quinn Curtis ’09 argue that employers have the fiduciary duty to structure their retirement plans so that employees invest wisely.

A report by the Law, Ethics and Animals Program at Yale Law School and the American Bird Conservancy reveals how local laws and policies are speeding up protections for birds from deadly building collisions.

Yale Law School Dean Heather K. Gerken has been appointed to the American Bar Association’s newly created Task Force for American Democracy.

Reading groups are an important component of The Tsai Leadership Program and have covered topics like leading in crisis, domestic extremism, identity, and failure.

The Veterans Legal Services Clinic and Reproductive Rights and Justice Project are challenging rules that exclude same-sex and unmarried couples, single veterans, and service members from eligibility for in vitro fertilization services.