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Seeking to foster new and creative cross-disciplinary approaches to the study and practice of human rights and the arts, the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School has launched a new initiative called JUNCTURE.

A federal district court released an important decision on Tuesday in Intellectual Property Watch’s long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

The Veterans Legal Services Clinic of Yale Law School will receive the 2015 Organization Award from the Hispanic-American Veterans of Connecticut. The award will be presented at the group’s eighth annual military ball on November 21, 2015, in North Haven, Connecticut. The Veterans Legal Services Clinic, established in 2010, represents Connecticut veterans in litigation before administrative agencies and courts, on benefits, discharge upgrade, immigration, and civil rights cases. In addition, clinic students represent local and national organizations in non-litigation matters relating to the...

Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh joined more than 20 former senior officials, including some who served in prominent positions in the Obama administration, to sign a letter urging the White House to accept 100,000 Syrian refugees. The figure is a a tenfold increase over an American commitment made last week, according to the New York Times. “With some four million Syrian refugees in neighboring countries and hundreds of thousands of Syrian asylum seekers in Europe, this would be a responsible exercise in burden sharing,” states the letter. “We urge you to take...

Chris Coons ’92 JD/DIV, United States Senator from Delaware, will be in conversation with Professor Michael Wishnie ’93 on October 15, 2015, at 4:30 pm in the Faculty Lounge. The topic of this dean’s lecture will be “The United States Senate: A Frank Conversation.” Chris Coons was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. In the senate, he founded the first-ever Senate Law Enforcement Caucus to help strengthen local, state, and federal public safety efforts. Coons serves on the Appropriations, Foreign Relations, Judiciary, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Ethics committees. He is the ranking...

A study appearing in Science Magazine analyzes how elite Americans display distinctive attitudes on questions concerning economic inequality. The study by authors Daniel Markovits ’00, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School, along with Raymond Fisman (Boston University), Pamela Jakiela (University of Maryland), and Shachar Kariv (University of California, Berkeley), included students at Yale Law School, the University of California, Berkeley, and a sample group from the American Life Panel, an Internet survey of a diverse population of U.S. adults. The study included experiments...

A federal district court has ordered the FBI to lift an eleven-year-old gag order imposed on Nicholas Merrill forbidding him from speaking about a National Security Letter (“NSL”) that the FBI served on him in 2004. The ruling marks the first time that an NSL gag order has been lifted in full since the PATRIOT Act vastly expanded the scope of the FBI’s NSL authority in 2001. Mr. Merrill, the executive director of the Calyx Institute, is represented by law students and supervising attorneys of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, a program of Yale Law School’s Abrams Institute for...

Issa Kohler-Hausmann ‘08, Associate Professor of Law, will receive the 2015 Outstanding Article Award from The American Society of Criminology at the society’s annual meeting on November 18. The award is for her paper “Misdemeanor Justice: Control without Conviction,” which appeared in the American Journal of Sociology. The American Society of Criminology Outstanding Article Award, established in 2006, honors exceptional contributions made by scholars in article form. The award is given annually for the peer-reviewed article that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in...