Rebecca Crootof ’11 Named Executive Director of Yale ISP
The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School has announced the appointment of Rebecca Crootof ’11 JD, ’16 PhD as its new executive director.
A Tribute to Michael Ratner
Michael Ratner, for decades President of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and a long-time faculty supervisor of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, passed away at age 72 on May 11, 2016.
Professor Kahn Publishes Book on the Art of the Judicial Opinion
Paul W. Kahn ’80, the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, has just published his tenth book: Making the Case: The Art of Judicial Opinion
Criminal Justice Clinic Client Has Prison Sentence Commuted by President Obama
On May 5, 2016, President Barack Obama granted a petition for clemency for a client of the Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic at Yale Law School.
Professor Mashaw Visits Australia, New Zealand to Present on Recent Work
Jerry Mashaw, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law, recently returned from a two-month trip visiting Universities throughout Australia and New Zealand to discuss his work.
New Yale Residential College to Honor Pauli Murray ’65 JSD
Yale University President Peter Salovey has announced that one of the new undergraduate residential colleges will be named for Anna Pauline Murray, who received a J.S.D. from Yale Law School in 1965.
Professor Ackerman Pens Op-ed After Lawsuit Alleges ISIS War Is Unconstitutional
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman ’67 has published an op-ed in the New York Times offering support for a newly filed lawsuit that argues President Barack Obama’s war against ISIS is illegal because Congress has not authorized it.
Ethics Bureau Alumni Publish Essay on Equitable Tolling
A recently published essay written by three Yale Law graduates highlights the inequities that plague the courts' application of the federal Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA).