WIRAC Client Challenging Nationwide Immigration Injunction Heads to Court
On September 22, 2016, Martín Batalla Vidal, an immigrant New Yorker and Make the Road New York member who filed suit against the federal government to challenge a Texas federal court’s nationwide injunction stopping President Obama’s 2014 immigration relief initiatives, had his first appearance in court.
Ahilan Arulanantham ’99 Named 2016 MacArthur Fellow
Human rights lawyer Ahilan Arulanantham ’99 was one of 23 people to receive 2016 MacArthur Fellowships.
The History of Economics
David Singh Grewal ’02 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 include legal and political theory; global economic governance, particularly international trade law; intellectual property law and biotechnology; and law and economics.
YLS Co-Hosts Conference on Women and Incarceration
The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and Yale Law School will host the “Real Women, Real Voices” symposium on September 23, 2016 at Yale Law School.
“Hacking the Election” Conference to Be Held September 20
The Center for Global Legal Challenges and the Information Society Project will co-host a conference on “Hacking the Election”
Lawyer Robert Barnett to Give Lecture on October 25
Robert Barnett, a senior partner at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., will deliver a dean’s lecture on October 25, 2016.
For Constitution Day: Debate on executive power and national security matters
In honor of Constitution Day, the Yale Law School chapters of the American Constitution Society and Federalist Society will host the first annual Guido and Steven G. Calabresi Debate on Constitutional Law on Friday, Sept. 16.
Law Professor Kevin Washburn to Give Dean’s Lecture October 17
Kevin Washburn ’93 will give a dean’s lecture on October 17, 2016, titled “In the Beginning was the Federal Trust Responsibility to Indian Tribes. Then Came Tribal Self-Governance. Conflict Ensues.”