Risa Goluboff ’00 to Give Dean’s Lecture February 21
Risa Goluboff ’00, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, will give a lecture on “Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s.”
Robina Foundation Awards $13 Million Gift for Human Rights Work
Yale Law School has received two gifts totaling $13 million from the Robina Foundation to create a Robina Human Rights Initiative Endowment Fund and to establish a Binger Clinical Professorship in Human Rights.
Judge Rules in Favor of MFIA Clinic in Arizona Department of Corrections Case
A federal judge ruled in favor of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic in a recent case against the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Simon Levin to Give Lecture on Business Strategy
Simon Levin, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, will give the Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellow Lecture on Monday, January 30, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge.
Students Urge CDC to Modify Proposed Quarantine Regulations
A new Health Affairs commentary written by two Yale Law students identifies dangerous shortcomings of the proposed CDC quarantine regulations.
Four Alums, Two Students Receive 2017 Skadden Fellowships
The Skadden Public Interest Fellowship recipients for 2017 include six members of the Yale Law School community: Will Bloom ’17, Brian Highsmith ’17, Cara McClellen ’15, Julia Solorzano ’16, Dorothy Tegeler ’16, and Julie Veroff ’15.
Students Attend Monsanto Tribunal
Students from the Environmental Protection Clinic recently traveled to The Hague, Netherlands to attend the Monsanto Tribunal, an international civil society initiative aimed at holding the agrochemical company Monsanto accountable for alleged human rights violations, crimes against humanity, and for ecocide.
Q&A: Professor Heather Gerken Discusses Progressive Federalism
Professor Heather Gerken explains how federalism and localism can be useful sites of politicking for people of all political stripes.