Yale Law School’s Tracey Meares Discusses Policing and Community Trust
Public trust is the greatest asset a police officer can have when it comes to keeping communities safe, and police need to rethink their role in order to improve this critical relationship, Tracey L. Meares, the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, told students at the Yale School of Management on March 2.
Bernstein Symposium to Be Held on Human Rights and Religion
The Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium will be held March 23–24, 2017.
Yale Law Students Decide the Cases in the Arbitration Project Clinic
When students from the Arbitration Project clinic step into a conference room in Hartford for a hearing, they are not representing a client on one side of the table.
Professor James Whitman Publishes Hitler’s American Model
Professor James Q. Whitman ’88 examines the relationship between early 20th-century American race law and the racial policy of Nazi Germany in his new book, Hitler’s American Model.
Solomon Center Team Challenges Short Comment Period for New Healthcare Regulation
A team of students and faculty from the Yale submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) responding to a proposed rule to modify regulations concerning the Health Insurance Marketplaces
Alexander ’13 Speaks on Community Organizing and Lawyering
On March 2, Amanda Alexander ’13 returned to Yale Law School to speak at the Schell Center’s Human Rights Workshop about what responsible and effective lawyering looks like in the age of Black Lives Matter.
Professor Forman '92 Cited in Scotus Decision on Racial Bias Among Jurors
In a Supreme Court decision ruling that racial bias among jurors may require a new trial, Justices cited the work of Professor James Forman Jr., in coming to their conclusion.
Cutler Fellows Explore Future of International Law
The fifth annual Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program brought together 56 students to Washington, D.C. last month, including students from Yale Law School and peers from 10 other leading U.S. law schools.