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MFIA Clinic Seeks to Unseal Records Relating to Former Trump Associate Felix H. Sater
On March 22, 2017, the Yale Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) on behalf of Forbes Media LLC (Forbes) and Forbes magazine’s Contributing Editor of Investigations Richard Behar, filed a motion in the Second Circuit to unseal records in a matter related to the criminal prosecution of Felix H. Sater. Sater is reported to be a former business associate of President Trump with connections to Russian oligarchs and organized crime, according to the motion. The documents Forbes and Behar seek should shed light on the nature of Sater’s reported connection to Russia and President Trump...
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Wheeler Memorial Concert Will Feature Yale and Reunion Jazz Ensembles
Yale Law School and Yale University Bands will present the 2017 Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert on Sunday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in Levinson Auditorium.
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Peter Schuck Has New Book on Five Key Hard Legal and Policy Issues
Each chapter of One Nation Undecided: Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide Us (Princeton University Press, 2017) takes on a different “hard issue”: poverty, immigration, affirmative action, campaign finance, and religious exemptions from secular policies.
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Leaders in the Latino Community to Gather for Roundtable
Yale Law School will host the American Bar Foundation (ABF)’s Northeast Roundtable on “The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility,” on April 8-9, 2017.
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Lowenstein Clinic Recommends Reforms to Liberia’s Concessions System
A paper released on March 14 by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School addresses significant gaps under Liberian law regarding the oversight of large-scale agricultural concessions.
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Conference To Examine Strategies to Advance Democracy, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law
Yale Law School will host “Bending the Arc: Strategies to Advance Democracy, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law in the New Administration,” on Saturday, March 25.
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Economics Professor Marianne Bertrand to Give Winter Lecture
Bertrand, whose research covers the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, and development economics, will speak on “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Board Quotas in Norway.”
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Rule of Law Clinic Amicus Brief Asks Court to Strike Down Revised Travel Order
The Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School filed an amicus brief on behalf of 40 senior former national security officials on March 15, 2017 in support of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project’s lawsuit against the President of the United States.