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A new initiative, the Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) will launch during the 2019–2020 academic year dedicated to drawing attention to the questions of conscience raised by human-animal relationships and developing new strategies to address industrialized animal cruelty.

The Connecticut Supreme Court cited a brief written by Yale Law School’s Housing Clinic when it ruled that landlords may not include “extraneous and irrelevant charges” in eviction paperwork, affirming that tenants of subsidized housing have a right to know how much they must pay to keep their homes.

Professor Gideon Yaffe will give the inaugural Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Lecture on September 23, 2019.

The Housing Clinic scored a long-fought victory for homeowners when the Connecticut Supreme Court's ruling in in U.S. Bank v. Blowers broadened what sort of bank misconduct mortgage borrowers can raise when defending against a foreclosure action.

The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic at Yale Law School will host its annual Access and Accountability Conference on October 4–5, 2019.

Student fellows from the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy have submitted comments to the Department of Health & Human Services advocating against a proposed Trump administration rule.

Ruth Rubio Marín, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad de Sevilla, will deliver the 2019 Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women’s Rights, “On Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship."

Read an excerpt from The Assault on American Excellence, a new book by Professor Anthony Kronman ’75.