Yale Law School Events

Week of March 11, 2023

March 7 Tuesday

Human Rights Scholars: The Academy's Evolving Role in the Fight to Protect Human Rights

  • 6:10PM to 7:30PM
  • SLB Room 127

Join the Schell Centre for Human Rights and our panel of human rights scholars to explore what the role of universities – and legal academics – is, can, and should be in relation to the global movement for human rights.

With human rights under threat worldwide, we will be exploring what role universities can play in protecting and promotin...

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March 7 Tuesday

Alumni Perspectives on Clerkships

  • 6:10PM to 7:00PM
  • Online Event

This webinar will offer a diverse array of alumni sharing their clerkship experiences. Please RSVP on YaleConnect to receive webinar access information. Please note, this program will NOT be recorded.

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March 8 Wednesday

Foundations of American Legal Thought Public Lectures Series

  • 12:00PM to 1:00PM
  • SLB Room 120

Duncan Kennedy, Critical Legal Studies: An Interview

This workshop takes up some of the central problems, methods, and ideas that have shaped the theory and study of the law over the course of the last century, by scholars, jurists, and reformers. Ideas to be explored include the proper roles of fairness and efficiency in law, the nature of legal authority and interpretation, the relationship between law and politics, and the intersections between law and other disciplines or modes of inquiry, including sociology, psychology, economics, history, and philosophy.

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March 8 Wednesday

Judicial Politics in Brazil's 2022 Presidential Election and in Lula's New Government

  • 12:00PM to 1:00PM
  • SLB Room 124

Diego Werneck Arguelhes, Professor of Constitutional Law at INSPER Law School in Sao Paolo, Brazil, YLS LLM '08, JSD ’18 

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March 8 Wednesday

"The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Informal Justice and the Death of ADR?" by Prof. Amy Cohen (with comments by Prof. Judith Resnik), Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop

  • 12:10PM to 1:30PM
  • Online

"The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Informal Justice and the Death of ADR?" by Prof. Amy Cohen (with comments by Prof. Judith Resnik), Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop. Event will be held via Zoom. For Zoom link, please contact Karen Crocco, at karen.crocco@yale.edu. Co-sponsored by The Center on Dispute Resolution, Quinnipiac University School of Law and The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Yale Law School.

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March 8 Wednesday
March 8 Wednesday

Movie Screening and Cocktails | Mingle with grad students interested in health policy!

  • 5:30PM to 8:30PM
  • Baker Hall 116 and Baker Hall 140

Program: Join for whatever your schedule allows, or stay the whole time! 

5:30 PM | InHospitable Film Screening, Baker 116
6:00 PM | Discussion with Zack Cooper, Natasha Ray, and Dr. Reshma Ramachandran, Baker 116
7:00 PM | Student Mixer, Baker Student Lounge (Room 140)

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March 8 Wednesday

CDO’s Virtual Law Firm Practice Area Forum

  • 5:30PM to 7:10PM
  • Online

Don't miss this opportunity to participate in small group chats with attorneys from firms around the country specializing in varied litigation, transactional, and regulatory practice areas. This event is for anyone working in a firm this summer, considering a firm for next summer, or working in a firm after graduation.

This event will feature over 30 attorneys, including 14 YLS alumni and 1...

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March 9 Thursday

Law Teaching Series - Academic Writing That Matters

  • 12:10PM to 1:00PM
  • SLB Room 122

Academic writing can and has been important in moving public affairs decisively: Think of Kimberle Crenshaw’s “Race, Reform and Retrenchment,” Charles Reich’s “The New Property,” or Marc Galanter’s “Why the Haves Come Out on Top” to name a few.  Professors Robert Post '77, and Daniel Markovits '00 will discuss examples of articles that moved debate, work that is rigorous and deeply grounded in law and had impact beyond ivy covered libraries. And how, when and why legal academics can aspire to this sort of work.

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March 9 Thursday

Book talk with Professor Christina Ho

  • 12:10PM to 1:00PM
  • TBD
  • Cancelled

Christina S. Ho, Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, was formerly the Country Director for the Clinton Foundation’s China program. She also worked on the White House Domestic Policy Council during the Clinton Administration, as well as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s legislative staff. She joined Rutgers Law from the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center where she founded the China Health Law Initiative.

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