Yale Environmental Protection Clinic Makes Impact in 2014–2015
The Yale Environmental Protection Clinic, a collaboration of the Law School and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES), undertook a number of projects this year to further its mission to address environmental law and policy problems.
Visiting Clinical Lecturer Rebecca Heller ’10 Receives Charles Bronfman Prize
The Charles Bronfman Prize named Visiting Clinical Lecturer Rebecca M. Heller ’10 the 2015 award recipient for her work creating and running the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project.
President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Akhil Amar to National Council on the Humanities
On May 20, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Professor Akhil Amar ’84 to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities.
YLS Clinical Students Seek to Reunite Family Following Deportation
Students from the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at the Yale Law School filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in an attempt to return a Connecticut woman back to her home following her deportation to Sicily.
YLS 2015 Commencement: Graduates Encouraged to Ask “Where Am I Needed?”—PHOTOS, VIDEO, SPEECHES
Yale Law School’s 2015 Commencement ceremony will take place on Monday, May 18, 2015.
SELA 2015 to Be Held in Brazil June 11–14
Scholars and lawyers from North and South America will gather in Rio de Janeiro for The Seminar in Latin America on Constitutional and Political Theory (SELA).
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Led Roundtable Discussion
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visited Yale Law School for an informal roundtable discussion with fifteen students from the Yale Food Law Society.
Justice Collaboratory Holds Inaugural Conference
The Justice Collaboratory at Yale held its first conference on April 16 & 17 on Policing Post-Ferguson. Vanita Gupta, Acting Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, delivered the keynote address.