Tuesday, June 6, 2023


A group of people stand in a line before a doorway, some holding blue plates of food. From inside the building, a hand holding an empty blue plate reaches out.

Tigrayans stand in line to receive food donated by local residents at a reception center for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 9, 2021. Photo: AP Photo/Ben Curtis

Wednesday, March 22, 2023


Five students Yale Law School’s 2023 Jessup International Law Moot Court CompFive students — Ali Hakim ’24, Thomas Poston ’24, Alaa Hachem ’24, Justin Cole ’23 and Matei Alexianu ’23 — smile and stand shoulder to shoulder before a gray marble-patterned wall.

Yale Law School’s 2023 Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team, from left: Ali Hakim ’24, Thomas Poston ’24, Alaa Hachem ’24, Justin Cole ’23 and Matei Alexianu ’23. The team goes to the international rounds in April.

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Now it is time to pivot and ask, where are your extraordinary gifts needed? How do you make this legal world that you are entering a better world? One where no one is shut out; one where the weak and vulnerable are not exploited; one that produces fair results based on the merits of the issues before it.”


Visiting Lecturer Stephen Bright

2012 Commencement Address