Report Published on Yemeni American Families Stranded in Djibouti Due to Travel Ban
In a new report titled “Window Dressing the Muslim Ban: Reports of Waivers and Mass Denials from Yemeni-American Families Stuck in Limbo,” the Rule of Law Clinic and the Center for Constitutional Rights document the Travel Ban’s impact on families.
Federal Judge Holds Forcible Separation of Immigrant Children Unconstitutional
U.S. District Court Judge Victor Bolden declared unconstitutional the federal government’s forcible separation of two immigrant children from their parents, and ordered the government to take immediate steps to ameliorate the grave harm it has caused.
Professor Resnik Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by UCL
Professor Judith Resnik received an honorary doctorate of laws from UCL on July 3, 2018.
WIRAC Files Emergency Lawsuit to Reunify Asylum-Seeking Families
Students from WIRAC filed emergency lawsuits on behalf of two asylum-seeking children, forcibly taken from their parents in Texas and shipped 2,000 miles to Connecticut by immigration officials.
Education Clinic Supports ACLU in Southern California Education Lawsuit
The Education Adequacy Project Clinic announced on July 2, 2018, that it had assisted the ACLU Foundation of Southern California in a landmark lawsuit filed yesterday to end school discipline policies that criminalize children of color in Riverside County, California.
ROLC, NAACP Sue Connecticut Over Prison Gerrymandering
Yale Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic has filed a lawsuit together with The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the NAACP Connecticut State Conference, and five individual NAACP members against the State of Connecticut challenging the practice known as “prison gerrymandering.”
Benjamin Woodring ’16 Quoted in Federal Court
A Yale Law recent graduate's work was quoted in a major case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
WCS & Yale Clinic Release Report on Preserving Moskitia Forest Corridor
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Yale University's Environmental Protection Clinic have created a plan to preserve one of the last intact forest strongholds for the jaguar and other iconic species in Central America: the Moskitia Forest Corridor. In a new report titled “ Stopping the Tide: A Strategy for Maintaining Forest Connectivity within the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor,” the authors lay out recommendations on how to protect the ecologically vital forest landscape that straddles both Honduras and Nicaragua. One of the primary findings of the report is that conservation...