Yale Law School Commencement 2019—Working Together and For One Another
On May 20, 2019, Yale Law School celebrated 240 degree candidates at Commencement.
Is the Constitution the Problem?
Democracy and Dysfunction (University of Chicago Press 2019) features a series of exchanges about our current political predicament between two prominent scholars of American constitutional law, Jack M. Balkin of Yale Law School and Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas.
Clinic Asks U.N. Special Rapporteur to Declare CT Department of Correction “Tortures”
Yale Law School’s Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic filed an allegation letter to the United Nations documenting the use of solitary confinement and other abusive practices by the Connecticut Department of Correction, arguing that such practices constitute torture under international law.
Liman Center Colloquium Focuses on Economic Injustice in Courts
The Liman Center Colloquium held its 22nd annual Colloquium in March and has published a free e-book of readings on the economics of court services.
GHJP Finds Incarceration for Low-Level Drug Crimes Rapidly Spreading TB in Brazil
A new report from the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Public Health finds that Increasing rates of drug-related incarcerations are perpetuating tuberculosis (TB) infection among Brazil’s general population.
Federal Court Refuses to Delay Prison Gerrymandering Suit
The Yale Law School Rule of Law Clinic, representing the NAACP and others, won an important ruling that opens a path to a possible trial challenging the State of Connecticut’s practice known as prison gerrymandering.
Two Law School Students Named Associate World Fellows
Nikita Lalwani ’20 and Geng Ngarmboonanant ’21 have been named Associate World Fellows for 2019 by the Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program at Yale University.
Professor NeJaime Launches Coalition to Protect LGBT Parents and their Children
Anne Urowsky Professor of Law Douglas NeJaime announced the creation of the Connecticut Parentage Act Coalition on May 8, 2019.