Education Adequacy Project Clinic Wins 11-Year Legal Battle
After more than 11 years of litigation and an appeal to the Connecticut Supreme Court, the Yale Law School’s Education Adequacy Project (EAP) Clinic has won a sweeping landmark victory for its client, the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF).
Renowned Climate Diplomat Joins YLS Professors to Teach Global Climate Change Course
In the wake of the conclusion of the historic Paris Climate Change accords, Yale Law School Professors Harold Hongju Koh and Douglas A. Kysar asked Todd D. Stern to join them in teaching a Fall 2016 course at the Law School on The Past, Present and the Future of Global Climate Change: Law and Policy.
How Law and Organization Interact
John D. Morley ’06 received tenure and was promoted to the title of Professor of Law at Yale Law School on July 1, 2016. His teaching and research interests focus on organizational law and investment management.
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.”