SFALP Students Help Secure Major Victory for California Consumers
Students in the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project played a key role in defending the right of local prosecutors in California to enforce the state’s Unfair Competition Law.
Three Leading Scholars Receive Secondary Appointments at YLS
Leading scholars Gerald Torres, Elizabeth Hinton, and Lauren Benton joined the Yale Law School faculty on July 1, 2020 with secondary appointments as Professors of Law.
Mellon Foundation, Justice Collaboratory Announce Million Book Project
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory announced a new initiative to distribute a curated 500-book collection to 1,000 medium and maximum security prisons, across every state in the United States over the next three and a half years.
Yale to Launch Center Focused on Health and Mass Incarceration
The SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, a collaboration between the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School, will work to identify the legal, policy, and practice levers that can improve the health of individuals and communities impacted by mass incarceration.
Knowing Your Rights
The Marshall-Brennan Project at the Law School sends law students into New Haven public high schools to teach courses in constitutional law and oral advocacy. The program stands out by going beyond a typical civics course and increasing students’ awareness of their own constitutional rights.
Free Exercise Clinic Files Amicus Brief Defending Prisoners’ Religious Liberty
The Free Exercise Clinic at Yale Law School and Sidley Austin LLP filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of the Sikh Coalition
A Q&A with Professor Cristina Rodríguez ’00 on DACA
A Q&A with Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law Cristina Rodríguez ’00 on the Supreme Court's DACA ruling and what comes next to ensure protections for Dreamers.
WIRAC Wins Monumental SCOTUS Case on DACA
The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, ruling that the Administration’s efforts to end DACA violated federal law.