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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.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

 Yale Law School Team Wins Northeast Moot Court Title, Heads to Internationals

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Handbook Helps Navigate Non-Prosecution Policies for Sex Work

Thursday, March 9, 2023

SFALP Files New Case Against Direct Marketing Company

Friday, March 3, 2023

Clinic Campaigns to Improve Equity in Access to Fertility Care in Connecticut

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

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LEAP Invites Applications for 2023 Student Grant Program

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

The stone-clad tower and the brick facade and colonnade of the courtyard interior of Sterling Law Building

Lowenstein Clinic and Green Advocates Challenge Illegal Detention in Liberia

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

detail of a carved stone owl at the Law School

Three Law Students Named Kerry Fellows

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Gerald Torres, Laurent Fabius, and Stephen Breyer in conversation

Architect of Paris Agreement Discusses Nexus of Law and Climate Change

Friday, August 26, 2022

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LEAP Announces Fall 2022 Speaker Series

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

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2022 Environmental Performance Index Finds World Is Not on Track to Meet Climate Commitments

Thursday, May 12, 2022

A blackpoll warbler killed by a window collision.

Yale Launches New Bird-Friendly Building Initiative

Thursday, April 21, 2022

View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.

A view of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon in 1972.

Alumni Address Pressing Environmental Challenges

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Today is a wonderful time to be blessed with legal training and to be able to go out and take on the enormous challenges of a difficult world — with an aspiration to lead tempered by humility at the complexity, difficulty, discipline, and self-sacrifice inherent in the task.”

Ben W. Heineman, Jr.

Class of 1971