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.
Clinic Files Lawsuit for Records About Discharge of Veterans with PTSD
Vietnam Veterans of America and the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress filed suit against the Department of Defense and the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to compel the release of records regarding their discharge of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
WIRAC Clinic Files Lawsuit Against Goodfellas Restaurant in New Haven
Former workers from Goodfellas Restaurant in New Haven filed a federal lawsuit against the restaurant alleging, wage theft, harassment, and racketeering offenses. The lawsuit was filed by the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School.