Jewish Law Conference to Be Held March 5
Yale Law School will be hosting a conference on Jewish Law on Sunday, March 5.
Roundtable to Examine Future of Finance and Capital Markets
Jerome Powell, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will deliver the keynote address on March 3, 2017 at the Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable at Yale Law School on “Blockchain: The Future of Finance and Capital Markets?,” organized by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Blockchain is a technology that enables the creation of a distributed ledger in which transactions are encrypted and recorded chronologically. The event will take place in room 127 at Yale Law School from 9 am to 4 pm and is open to the Yale community and invited guests. The...
Rule of Law Clinic Files National Security Amicus Brief and Declaration
When the Rule of Law Clinic (“ROLC”) first formed in January 2017 with the goal of countering policies that threaten the rule of law, no one knew exactly what litigation might ensue.
Heather Gerken Selected as Next Dean of Yale Law School
Professor Heather Gerken, the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, has been selected as the next Dean of Yale Law School.
Elliott to Give Talk on Emerging Trends in Legal Scholarship
E. Donald Elliott, Professor (Adjunct) of Law, will lead a discussion on two emerging trends in legal scholarship, “Alternative Histories of Law” and “Domestic Comparative Law,” on March 8 at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.
Environmental Law Conference to Address Changing Climate
The fifth annual New Directions in Environmental Law conference will be held on February 24–25, 2017.
Yale Law School Mourns Michael E. Levine ’65
Michael E. Levine ’65 LLB, a widely recognized authority on the airline industry and the dean of the Yale School of Management from 1988 to 1992, has died.
Law professors weigh in on the Supreme Court nominee and confirmation process
Yale Law School professor E. Donald Elliott doesn’t share the same judicial philosophy as Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, but he believes that President Trump’s selection is “as good as it possibly gets” — as far as conservative judges go.