Professor James Silk ’89 Receives Human Rights Award
Professor James J. Silk ’89 was awarded the M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award by the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) on January 4, 2019.
MFIA Clinic Establishes New Ruttenberg Fellowship
Francesca Lina Procaccini has joined the Media and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at Yale Law School as the new Ruttenberg Fellow.
Solomon Center Scholars Edit Journal Issue on CRISPR Technology
Solomon Center Executive Director Katie Kraschel and Solomon Center Affiliated Scholar Natalie Kofler coedited the December 2018 issue of Seminars in Perinatology, titled “Gene Editing (CRISPR).”
A Jewel in the Law School’s Crown
The Yale Law Report looked back at the last 20 years of the Center for the Study of Corporate Law.
Federal Court Approves Nationwide Class Action by Army Veterans with PTSD
A federal judge has certified a nationwide class-action lawsuit seeking relief for over 50,000 Iraq and Afghanistan Army veterans who developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), or other mental health conditions in service.
MFIA Clinic Seeks Records in Pentagon Papers Case
Acting on behalf of Harvard historian and author Jill Lepore, the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School has petitioned the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to unseal the records of two 1971 Boston grand juries convened to investigate the leak and publication of the Pentagon Papers.
Matthew Desmond to Deliver Thomas Lecture on Tenant Exploitation
Matthew Desmond, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, will deliver the annual James A. Thomas Lecture at the Law School on January 28, 2019.
Post Delivers Inaugural Thurgood Marshall Lecture at the Second Circuit
Sterling Professor of Law Robert C. Post ’77 delivered the inaugural Thurgood Marshall Lecture at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on December 12, 2018.