Record Number of Students and Graduates Receive Public Interest Fellowships
In May, Yale Law School announced that 63 of its graduating students and recent alumni were awarded public interest post-graduate fellowships.
Professor Kohler-Hausmann’s Book Wins Awards
Associate Professor of Law Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08 has won several recent accolades for her book Misdemeanorland.
Federal Bar Council Honors Guido Calabresi
The Federal Bar Council honored Sterling Professor Emeritus Guido Calabresi ’58 with its Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence.
Yale Law School Commencement 2019—Working Together and For One Another
On May 20, 2019, Yale Law School celebrated 240 degree candidates at Commencement.
Is the Constitution the Problem?
Democracy and Dysfunction (University of Chicago Press 2019) features a series of exchanges about our current political predicament between two prominent scholars of American constitutional law, Jack M. Balkin of Yale Law School and Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas.
Clinic Asks U.N. Special Rapporteur to Declare CT Department of Correction “Tortures”
Yale Law School’s Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic filed an allegation letter to the United Nations documenting the use of solitary confinement and other abusive practices by the Connecticut Department of Correction, arguing that such practices constitute torture under international law.
Liman Center Colloquium Focuses on Economic Injustice in Courts
The Liman Center Colloquium held its 22nd annual Colloquium in March and has published a free e-book of readings on the economics of court services.
GHJP Finds Incarceration for Low-Level Drug Crimes Rapidly Spreading TB in Brazil
A new report from the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Public Health finds that Increasing rates of drug-related incarcerations are perpetuating tuberculosis (TB) infection among Brazil’s general population.