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The Law School’s first female graduate talked her way in — 35 years before other women were admitted.

Miriam Lashley ’44 was the first female editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.

A recent conference brought together scholars from around the world to rethink Montesquieu’s legacy in light of his engagement with non-Western regimes.

Recently acquired courtroom pencil sketches from a notorious 1930s New York corruption trial are on display through Jan. 14 in Yale Law School’s Lillian Goldman Law Library. Curator Kathryn James describes the collection and the sordid case it depicts.

Law students have their own Yale-Harvard football matchup — basketball, too.

In this episode of "Inside Yale Law School," Professor Amy Kapczynski ’03 recalls her battles as a law student with drug companies — and Yale University — over their patent policies on AIDS drugs. She also shares her fascination with intellectual property law and political economy, and why we all need to be kinder to each other.

In a new course, Yale Law School students delved into the working papers of a former Supreme Court justice, gaining research skills once used mainly by scholars but now increasingly valuable for legal practitioners.

The Media Freedom and Information Access clinic is suing the city of Jersey City, its mayor, and the mayor’s press secretary on behalf of a local news site and editor who say they were dropped from the city’s press list for publishing a story critical of the mayor.