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Yale Law School will hold a conference titled “Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution," on April 12, 2016.

Yale Law School has received a gift of $30 million in honor of its distinguished alumnus, the late Dr. Paul C. Tsai, LL.M ’54, J.S.D. ’57, to support the continuing work of the Law School’s China Center.

Arnold Giammarco, a deported Connecticut resident recently subpoenaed by the Connecticut Judiciary Committee to testify at a hearing on April 4, won a victory in federal court.

Kaaryn Gustafson, Professor of Law at UC–Irvine School of Law, will give a lecture titled “Bastardy, Debt, and Social Control” on March 21, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge. This 2015–2016 James A. Thomas Lecture will highlight Gustafson’s historical research on America’s orphan and bastardy laws.

The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of John B. King Jr. ’07 to be Secretary of Education on March 15, 2016.

Justice Susanne Baer of the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany will deliver the Judge Jon O. Newman Lecture on March 28, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. Her lecture is titled “Rights Under Pressure: Practicing Constitutional Law in Turbulent Times.”

Students from the Yale Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society and Yale Law Democrats met with policy makers and elected officials during an annual trip to Washington, D.C. on March 3-4, 2016.

This week, scholars of American history and law wrote a letter to President Barack Obama to share their views on the Senate republicans' refusal to fulfill their responsibilities as laid out in the Constitution. Professor Harold Hongju Koh joined in writing and signing the letter. The letter argues that denying the President's Supreme Court nominee a hearing is unprecedented in this country's history. "We express our dismay at the unprecedented breach of norms by the Senate majority in refusing to consider a nomination for the Supreme Court made by a president with eleven months to serve in...