Petition Seeks to Protect Zika-Affected Women and Families
More than six months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the spread of the Zika virus a public health emergency of international concern, two Brazilian organizations have filed a petition with the country’s Supreme Court demanding, as a matter of Constitutional rights, that the government expand health services and social supports for women, families, and children affected by the Zika epidemic.
NY Dreamer Challenges Nationwide Immigration Injunction
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed Thursday, August 25 opened up a new front in the defense of the Obama administration’s 2014 immigration relief initiatives, known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) and expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (expanded DACA).
New Course Will Explore a Post-Brexit World
In the wake of the momentous June 2016 referendum calling for Great Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, Sterling Professor Harold Hongju Koh will hold a special course this fall examining the broader, evolving political and legal ramifications of “Brexit.”
SFALP Clinic Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
The San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP) looks back at the major achievements of the past decade.
Garton Ash to Give Elliot Lecture on September 26
Professor Timothy Garton Ash will deliver the Ralph Gregory Elliot First Amendment Lecture on “Unilateral Universalism? The United States and the Promotion of Free Speech in a Connected World.”
Dean Post Welcomes New Students
Dean Robert C. Post ’77 welcomed the newest class of Yale Law Students to New Haven during convocation on Monday, August 22, 2016.
U.N. Acknowledges Responsibility for Haiti Cholera Outbreak
Three years after the Global Health Justice Partnership and Transnational Development Clinic at Yale Law School published a report showing that the United Nations inadvertently caused a deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti, the intergovernmental organization has acknowledged responsibility for the first time.
WIRAC Files Lawsuit Over Family Immigration Detention Abuses
Two refugees who fled violence and persecution in Central America filed suit against the Obama Administration for the alleged unlawful and inhumane treatment they received when they first arrived in the United States.