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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.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

 Yale Law School Team Wins Northeast Moot Court Title, Heads to Internationals

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Handbook Helps Navigate Non-Prosecution Policies for Sex Work

Thursday, March 9, 2023

SFALP Files New Case Against Direct Marketing Company

Friday, March 3, 2023

Clinic Campaigns to Improve Equity in Access to Fertility Care in Connecticut

Thursday, November 17, 2022

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Panel Highlights Community Safety as a Public Health Issue

Monday, November 14, 2022

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Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik speaks at the conference honoring the 40th anniversary of her influential paper “Managerial Judges.”

Conference Celebrates Professor Judith Resnik’s “Managerial Judges”

Friday, November 11, 2022

Clinical Lecturer in Law Meghan Brooks and Josh Lefkow ’23 join Yale President Peter Salovey

Veterans Day: Providing Legal Services to Veterans

Thursday, November 3, 2022

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Military Justice Reform Advocates Sue for Service Member Prosecution Records

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

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New Paradigms in Legal Thought

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

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Douglas NeJaime and Stephen Bright Elected to the American Law Institute

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Dean Heather K. Gerken and Hillary Rodham Clinton

Dean Heather K. Gerken and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ’73 held a conversation in which Clinton described her career path and how she defines leadership.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ’73 Headlines Transformational Leadership Week

Thursday, October 27, 2022

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The symposium Incarceration and Imagination explored writing inside and outside of prison walls.

Symposium Explores Incarceration and the Human Mind 

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Now it is time to pivot and ask, where are your extraordinary gifts needed? How do you make this legal world that you are entering a better world? One where no one is shut out; one where the weak and vulnerable are not exploited; one that produces fair results based on the merits of the issues before it.”

Visiting Lecturer Stephen Bright

2012 Commencement Address