Wednesday, September 27, 2023


Members of the delegation of Ukraine seated in court

Members of the delegation of Ukraine, on the opening day of the hearings on Sept. 18, 2023, including Professor Harold Hongju Koh (center, in red tie).

Tuesday, September 12, 2023


Tuesday, June 13, 2023


members of the Ukrainian delegation seated at a table

Members of the Ukrainian delegation, including Professor Harold Hongju Koh (center) on the second day of the hearings. U.N. Photo/ICJ-CIJ/Wiebe Kiestra. Courtesy of the ICJ.

Tuesday, June 6, 2023


A group of people stand in a line before a doorway, some holding blue plates of food. From inside the building, a hand holding an empty blue plate reaches out.

Tigrayans stand in line to receive food donated by local residents at a reception center for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 9, 2021. Photo: AP Photo/Ben Curtis

Wednesday, March 22, 2023


Five students Yale Law School’s 2023 Jessup International Law Moot Court CompFive students — Ali Hakim ’24, Thomas Poston ’24, Alaa Hachem ’24, Justin Cole ’23 and Matei Alexianu ’23 — smile and stand shoulder to shoulder before a gray marble-patterned wall.

Yale Law School’s 2023 Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team, from left: Ali Hakim ’24, Thomas Poston ’24, Alaa Hachem ’24, Justin Cole ’23 and Matei Alexianu ’23. The team goes to the international rounds in April.

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We, as lawyers, can be builders too. We can use our tools to build a society in which every member of the new generation can celebrate her graduation — not only with joy but with well-founded hope for the future.”


Professor Anne L. Alstott

Class of 1987, 2013 Commencement Address