Yale Law School Events

This spring, Yale Law School will host the Workplace Theory and Policy Workshop, Reimagining Work After 2020, chaired by Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Science Vicki Schultz. This timely seminar will bring in prominent scholars, policymakers, and activists from a variety of disciplines to analyze recent transformations in society—most notably, the COVID pandemic and the uprising against structural racism—in relation to work.

Thurman Arnold Prize Finals, 2020–2021
Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals at Yale

Petitioners: Marnie Lowe and Akanksha Shah
Respondents: Geoffrey Block and Erik Fredericksen

The internet promised both liberty and equality. At the dawn of the internet age, a popular book declared “the world is flat”—that opportunity was now global. But utopian visions gave way to a reality of gaping economic disparities, widespread surveillance, data exploitation, and technology trade wars. This book begins by mapping how we got here, arguing that law helped create the geography of the internet. But existing law will prove inadequate as decisions about us are made by artificial intelligence, often from afar, and as robots take to the streets and drones to the air.

Interested in learning more about how sovereign debt is issued and marketed? Want to know more about the evolution of sovereign debt terms and structure in the wake of high-profile litigation over sovereign defaults?