Detroit Students Have a Constitutional Right to Literacy, Court Rules
Professor of Law Justin Driver is quoted in the New York Times about a decision by a federal court that declared American public school students have a constitutional right to an adequate education. His book, The Schoolhouse Gate,was cited in the underlying decision.
The perils of incrementalism — A Commentary by Paul Kahn ’80 and Kiel Brennan-Marquez ’11
Paul W. Kahn ’80 is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School. Kiel Brennan Marquez ’11 is a law professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law Jonathan Macey ’82 is quoted in a CNN story about United Airlines’s plans to sell $1 billion of stock.
U.S. Appeals Court Recognizes a Federal Right of Access to Literacy
Professor of Law Justin Driver is quoted in Education Week about a recent decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit (Cincinnati), that recognizes a fundamental federal right to a basic minimum education and access to literacy.
CT Department of Correction to release 80-year-old killer to halfway house amid suit over coronavirus
Kayla Morin ’21 is quoted, and the Veterans Legal Services Clinic is mentioned, in a New Haven Register update on the Clinic’s client, an elderly inmate veteran who has been moved from prison to a halfway house due to his heightened susceptibility of contracting the coronavirus.