President Obama Cites ASCA/Liman Report on Solitary Confinement
President Barack Obama cited a groundbreaking report published by Yale Law School’s Arthur Liman Public Interest Program Tuesday in a Washington Post oped announcing the end of solitary confinement for juveniles.
EPI Reveals Decline and Progress in Global Environment
The 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), a Yale-based initiative that evaluates how 180 countries protect ecosystems and human health, finds cause for both optimism and serious concern. The world’s nations have expanded access to water and sanitation while creating more protected areas than ever before, yet countries have failed to reverse degradation of air quality and decline in fisheries, the report finds. The EPI, which measures national and global protection of ecosystems and human health from environmental harm, draws out trends and highlights data gaps in priority areas including...
New Yale Law Journal Public Interest Fellowships Announced
In an effort to unite legal scholarship and legal practice, and to advance the public interest, Volume 125 of the Yale Law Journal partnered with the Yale Law School to provide three public interest fellowships on a yearly basis.
Ten Years of the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic
Founded in 2006, the Law School’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic was one of the first of its kind among American law schools.
Rose-Ackerman Awarded Honorary Doctorate
Susan Rose-Ackerman received an honorary doctorate from the University of Maastricht (UM) in the Netherlands on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary at the opening convocation on January 11, 2016.
Defense Dept. Agrees to Disclosure of PTSD Records for Vets Clinic Clients
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School received a settlement in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut in Vietnam Veterans of America et al v. Dept. of Defense et al.
Professor Rodríguez’s YLJ Article Analyzes Immigration Executive Action
The legal issues surrounding President Obama’s executive actions were explored in-depth recently in a Yale Law Journal article written by Professors Cristina M. Rodríguez of Yale Law School and Adam B. Cox of NYU School of Law. The article is titled “The President and Immigration Law Redux.”
Kamel Center Lectures Set for Spring 2016
The Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School will host a series of lectures featuring academics from around the country during the Spring 2016 semester.