Yale Law School Events

November 3, 2021

November 3 Wednesday

The Preemption Problem: How states block local reform and what to do about it

  • 12:00PM to 1:00PM
  • Online
Many reform-minded cities and towns have encountered a significant roadblock: state laws that are specifically intended to prevent local reform. What are these laws, where are they in effect, and how can the obstacles they present be surmounted? This inaugural event in the Justice Collaboratory’s Fall 2021 Policing Conversation Series will offer answers.
 

View Details

November 3 Wednesday

Accountability for the Opioid Crisis: A Discussion with Attorney General Tong and Patrick Radden Keefe

  • 12:10PM to 1:15PM
  • SLB Room 122 and Online

What does accountability for the opioid crisis look like? Join us in a discussion on the history, current state actions, and legal implications with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and Patrick Radden Keefe '05, author of the New York Times bestseller Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. The conversation will be moderated by Abbe R. Gluck '00, Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School.

View Details

November 3 Wednesday

Public Service, Leadership, and Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Panel

  • 2:10PM to 3:00PM
  • SLB Room 121

Please join Dean Heather Gerken in a panel discussion on public service and non-profit entrepreneurship featuring Tom Bernstein '77, Chair of the Board of Directors of 

View Details

November 3 Wednesday

CDO 26th Annual Public Interest Career Fair

  • 6:00PM to 8:00PM
  • Online

Are you interested in working at a public interest organization, government office, or public interest law firm this summer? The Public Interest Career Fair can help you understand more about these areas of practice and about individual employers both in the U.S. and abroad.

View Details

November 3 Wednesday

Deaths in Custody

  • 6:10PM to 8:00PM
  • Online

Deaths in Custody

In this panel, Andrea Armstrong, Law Visiting Committee Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans, and Homer Venters, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Global Public Health at New York University, will explore what has happened and can happen to halt the debilitation and death of people detained in jails, prisons, and detention centers. 

To join this event, please email Elizabeth Keane at elizabeth.keane@yale.edu for a Zoom link.

View Details