Kate Braner ’93 Named Liman Center Executive Director
Katherine Braner ’93 will be the next Executive Director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Hurst Horizon Scholarship Gives Students Freedom in Law School and Beyond
The Soledad ’92 and Robert Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program has expanded to remove cost as a barrier to law school for even more students — a total of 75 for this academic year. Since Yale Law School launched the program two years ago under Dean Heather K. Gerken’s leadership, several peer institutions have followed suit, creating a new trend for financial aid in legal education.
Judith Resnik and Vicki C. Jackson ’75 Honored for Federal Courts Scholarship
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik and Vicki C. Jackson ’75 have been honored with the 2024 Daniel J. Meltzer Lifetime Achievement Award.
Climate on Trial
Yale Law School alumni are fighting in the courts — and nearly every other arena — to hold government officials and private companies accountable for their contributions to climate change.
Yale Law and Medicine Host Symposium on Elder Fraud and Abuse
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School will host a symposium “Innovating Elder Justice: Law, Medicine, and Technology to Address Abuse and Financial Exploitation in Today’s Aging Society.
Leading the Way in Legal Education for 200 Years
To mark Yale Law School’s bicentennial, Dean Heather K. Gerken joins President Peter Salovey for a conversation about the impact the school has had on legal education over two centuries and what comes next. Dean Gerken discusses the Yale Law School’s focus on bolstering needs-based aid, increasing the number of veterans on campus, and preparing the next generation of lawyers and leaders to engage across divides in polarized times.
Professor Sven Riethmueller on Pre-IPO Stock Option Discounting
In a new paper, Clinical Associate Professor of Law Sven Riethmueller critiques the practice by pre-IPO companies of granting stock options as compensation while preparing to go public.
AI and the First Amendment: A Q&A with Jack Balkin
Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, discusses artificial intelligence (AI) and the legal repercussions that may occur as the technology advances.