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Alumni Weekend 2016 Highlights
The 2016 Yale Law School Alumni Weekend took place on October 21-23, featuring special class reunion events and an array of panels focusing on pressing current issues from community policing and climate change to health law and national security.
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Passion for Food Law Grows at Yale Law School
With a growing interest in food law and policy at YLS, students and the administration are creating more opportunities to engage in this emerging area of law.
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Doctoral Scholarship Conference Will Be Held November 11–12
The Doctoral Scholarship Conference provides a platform for doctoral students and recent graduates to present, share, and debate their scholarly work.
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Dean Post to Speak at Symposium on 'Truth in the Internet Age'
“Truth in the Internet Age” is the focus of a Yale symposium to be held on campus on Wednesday, Nov. 9, the day after the 2016 presidential election. Dean Robert C. Post will speak at the event.
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President Obama Commutes Sentence of Criminal Justice Clinic Client
On October 27, 2016, President Barack Obama commuted the life sentence of Alberto Lopez, a client of the Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic at Yale Law School.
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The Solomon Center Explores the Future of the Affordable Care Act
On October 28, in collaboration with the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), the Solomon Center is organizing a panel discussion on the future of health insurance exchanges in “Shoring Up the Exchanges: Insurer Withdrawals, the Public Option and the Path Forward.”
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David Rieff Discusses Memory and Justice at the Human Rights Workshop
David Rieff, a prominent non-fiction writer and critic, visited the Schell Center on October 13 to argue in favor of forgetting the past when discussing human rights.
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MFIA Clinic Demands Records Identifying Missouri’s Lethal Injection Drug Suppliers
The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic at Yale Law School filed a brief on October 21, 2016 defending a significant victory for government transparency scored by the clinic last year.