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Dean Gerken Joins the ABA in Calling for Further Investigation.
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A Message from Dean Gerken on Support for International Students
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Yale Law School Dean
@GerkenHeather
addresses Yale Law School's Commitment to Nondiscrimination.
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Yale Law School will no longer participate in the U.S. News annual law school rankings. Despite calls for reform, U.S. News continues to employ flawed metrics that devalue public service work and need-based aid for students from low-income backgrounds.
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.
@Newsweek
quotes the message of support from
@GerkenHeather
for our international students and how YLS faculty would help continue in-person learning: "One of my colleagues told me that he would teach outside in the snow if he needed to," she said.
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Professor
@JohnFabianWitt
and Will Smiley ’14 discovered a manuscript lost for a century in the
@USNatArchives
by Francis Lieber, legal adviser to President Lincoln. The work reverberates into the age of the laws of terrorism.
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A unanimous decision of the 2nd Circuit today ruled that the
@NAACP
can proceed in its lawsuit challenging Connecticut’s discriminatory practice of counting incarcerated people where they are imprisoned, rather than in their home districts.
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In response to the student action taking place today in New Haven and Washington, D.C., Dean Heather Gerken released the following statement.
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Judge Bolden declared unconstitutional the federal government’s forcible separation of two immigrant children, represented by YLS's WIRAC.
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A Lowenstein Clinic study finds that Ethiopia and its allies violated international law by using starvation of civilians as a weapon of war in Tigray. (via
@schellcenter
)
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Yale Law School alumni on the frontlines of the fight for voting rights discuss what’s at stake for democracy.
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Professor Guido Calabresi’s final Torts class came with a big surprise at the end — more than 160 former students and colleagues past and present appeared on screen to celebrate his six-decade-long run.
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Political leader and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams ’99 describes her motivation to protect voting rights and democracy.
#ConversationsOnLeadership
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Read a statement from Yale Law faculty members to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the Brett Kavanaugh hearings:
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For the first time, the editors in chief of the top 16 law reviews in the U.S. are all women, including Ela Leshem ’20 of
@YaleLJournal
. They met in Washington, D.C.
@DukeinDC
for a conference titled “Honoring the Advancement of Women in Law”
#womenandlaw
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All quiet while Yale Law School is closed for the holiday weekend.
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A report issued this week by the Lowenstein Clinic calls for investigations of alleged violations of international law by warring parties in Tigray.
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Today we celebrate the 90th birthday of Guido Calabresi ’58, beloved former Dean, legendary torts scholar, and distinguished federal judge. Happy birthday, Guido!
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Professor
@AbbeGluck
will join the Office of White House Counsel as Special Counsel working on the COVID-19 Response team as well as other health care issues, the Biden-Harris Transition announced today.
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Commencement is just a week away! On May 20,
@neal_katyal
’95 will be the guest speaker and Judge Guido Calabresi ’58 will be the faculty speaker at the ceremony. Follow us for more updates.
#YaleLaw2019
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Congratulations to
@HillaryClinton
’73 on her historic nomination for President of the United States.
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A new initiative at the Law School, the Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP), will develop strategies to address industrialized animal cruelty and its impacts, and draw attention to the questions of conscience raised by humanity’s treatment of animals.
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The first snowfall of the season dusted the Courtyard at the Law School overnight.
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COVID-19 Update to the YLS Community: Spring Break Extended; Classes Moving Online; Events Canceled. More information here:
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Students and community members lie down during the
#YLSDieIn
as a show of solidarity with demonstrations nationwide.
http://t.co/my7WkOSm56
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Judge Orders Temporary Stay After YLS Clinic Challenges Trump’s Order Banning Refugees From Entering the U.S.
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It is always a pleasure to welcome back
@HillaryClinton
’73. Secretary Clinton met with YLS students and faculty during a visit to New Haven yesterday.
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In a follow-up message to the YLS community, Dean Gerken spoke about the role that lawyers have played in recent events and the need to repair the damage that has been done to our democracy.
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Now in year two, the Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program is covering 75 students — one in eight at Yale Law School — who are attending tuition-free. Since 2022, several peer law schools have followed, sparking a trend for increasing need-based financial aid.
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@neal_katyal
"I can’t give you the recipe to legal success, but I can give you the recipe to a happy life. Doing what you love, family, empathy, humility, and friendship."—Neal Katyal '95
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The magnolia tree blooms in the Law School Courtyard, a beautiful reminder of renewal, hope, and new beginnings.
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After 35 years and 1,608 pages, Professor Robert C. Post has written the definitive history of the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
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Congratulations to Professor
@monicacbell
, who has received awards from
@TheAALS
and from
@ASAnews
.
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At YLS, Professor Whittington will launch a new center devoted to the study of free speech and academic freedom with the generous support of the Stanton Foundation.
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ICYMI:
@MFIAclinic
represented journalists
@alexgibneyfilm
& Ray Bonner, arguing the CIA gag order on former FBI agent
@Ali_H_Soufan
infringed upon their First Amendment rights. Soufan’s book was rereleased with unredacted material last week.
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Garrett West ’18 — a scholar of constitutional law and torts and regulation — will join the Yale Law faculty on July 1, 2024.
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Yale Law School announced today the launch of “The Rosenkranz Originalism Conference at Yale Law School.”
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This new intellectual initiative will bring prominent academics and jurists to Yale for a day-long conference each semester to discuss and debate originalism in constitutional thought and practice.
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Professor
@samuelmoyn
is interviewed about how human rights connect to global economic fairness. “I wanted to ask: What does it tell us that human rights became our highest morality in an age when we also embraced inequality again?”
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Professor
@scottjshapiro
and his students train artificial intelligence models so that law clinics can help more clients:
“That’s what motivates academics and scholars to solve problems people have always dreamed of solving.”
How Yale Law is shaping AI:
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Today the Law School announced the creation of the Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program, which will erase tuition for J.D. students with the greatest financial need for generations to come.
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An army of Yale Law students helped the San Francisco City Attorney's Office win a permanent, nationwide injunction on the Trump Administration's
#sanctuary
city order. Read how YLS students were involved in this major case
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Professor Robert Post’s monumental new book tells the story of the Supreme Court during the tumultuous 1920s, when Chief Justice William Howard Taft changed the institution forever.
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A familiar sight for the first week of classes: students returning to the Lillian Goldman Law Library for quiet study.
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Wishing a happy holiday season to all and a restful winter break to the Yale Law School community!
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Professor
@akapczynski
on her teaching philosophy: “As a teacher, I want to give my students tools to understand the law, but also to think critically about it, and to reshape it to live up to our highest ideals as a democracy.”
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@JFormanJr
’92 is the 2018
@PulitzerPrizes
winner in General Nonfiction for his book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.
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Joshua Macey ’17 (
@maceyjoshua
) — a scholar of bankruptcy, environmental law, energy law, and financial institution regulation — will join the Yale Law School faculty this year.
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ICYMI: The Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic
@YLS_ROLC
co-represents the Center for Popular Democracy Action and the City of Newburgh, NY in a new federal lawsuit challenging deficiencies in the planning for the 2020 Census that will jeopardize its accuracy.
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A new online platform from
@yalelawlibrary
and
@OSFramework
makes legal scholarship free to read and share for researchers, scholars, and the general public.
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This week
@staceyabrams
’99 received the
@yalelawwomen
Alumni Achievement Award, honoring an alumna who exemplifies the mission of YLW: to advance the status of women and traditionally underrepresented gender identities at Yale Law School and in the legal profession at large.
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Curious about the Yale Law School course on cybersecurity by Professor
@scottjshapiro
and Lecturer
@seanodiggity
?
@lawfare
has an online version.
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Happy New Year from Yale Law School! Photo: Harold Shapiro.
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Professor Justin Driver has been awarded The Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law for his book, “The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind.”
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Robert C. Post’s last day as dean of YLS was celebrated with this cake featuring fondant versions of his books
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Wishing everyone a restful winter break and happy holidays from Yale Law School.
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The spring term is getting started: it’s the first day of classes.
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Professor
@jackbalkin
has received funding from
@knightfdn
to launch a new
@yaleisp
initiative to produce legal and policy recommendations to improve the functioning of the digital public sphere.
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Everyone is studying hard — good luck to all YLS students in the library and elsewhere starting their exams this week!
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Today, the Law School celebrates the achievements of 229 graduates! Though we remain apart, we still celebrate as one community.
#yale2020
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In his latest book, Professor Harold Koh examines whether the Trump administration’s policies will permanently alter the post-war international order.
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The expert witnesses the Senate needs — A Commentary by Professor Akhil Amar and Andy Lipka
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Yale Law Clinic secures victory for detained immigrants. See the court documents here.
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In her new book “Credit Nation,” Professor Claire Priest reveals how the drive to expand credit propelled the creation of new property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the United States.
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Happy holidays and new year to all of the Yale Law School community
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Professor
@oonahathaway
talked to
@AliVelshi
on
@msnbc
about the growing effort to create a special tribunal to prosecute Russia for the war in Ukraine.
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Over 450 public health and legal experts across the country have just issued critical guidelines for the U.S. response to the corona virus outbreak
#covid19
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On the one-year anniversary of her death, a new scholarship honors the memory of trailblazing scholar, civil rights litigator, and law professor Lani Guinier ’74.
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Today is the first day of the spring semester and classes are underway.
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YLS Clinic files habeas petition and motion for class cert after executive order bans certain refugees/immigrants from the country.
Refugees on the way to the U.S. when President Trump's executive order was signed were detained at airports
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Vernon Horn served 17 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. But his fate changed when Yale Law students and alumni got involved. Read Horn’s powerful story.
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Professor Justin Driver will join the Law School faculty on July 1. Driver teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law and is the author of The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind.
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“Corporations don’t get to vote on election day – at least not yet.” Akhil Amar on the Hobby Lobby decision on MSNBC.
http://t.co/PrLgg5JNtn
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WATCH: Professor Ian Ayres serenaded his Intellectual Property class with “Stairway to Heaven” recently. Led Zeppelin won a major copyright suit over the origins of the song in March.
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A new online exhibition from the
@yalelawlibrary
explores the marks that readers leave in their law books. The marks left by readers document the lived experience of the law, and remind us that law is above all a human endeavor.
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We are thrilled to expand our groundbreaking Hurst Horizon Scholarship, ensuring that more students with significant financial need will be able to attend law school tuition free. Read more about the expansion:
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Exams are finished and winter break has begun! Happy Holidays from Yale Law School! Photo: Harold Shapiro.
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Happy birthday to Marian Wright Edelman ’63, lifelong children’s rights advocate and activist and founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund
@childdefender
. In 2017, she received the Yale Law Women Alumnae Achievement Award for her advocacy for disadvantaged Americans.
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On Wednesday, Yale Law School celebrated the 85th birthday of our beloved former Dean Guido Calabresi ’58!
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Happy holidays and new year to all of the Yale Law School community
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Angus, a certified therapy dog, visited the Yale Law Library in Dec. to give students a break from studying.
http://t.co/pdivWcIDJj
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Professor Justin Driver appeared on
@OpenMindTV
@PBS
to discuss constitutional law, his recent book The Schoolhouse Gate, and more.
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Yale Law clinics are on the front lines of some of the biggest cases in the country, protecting underserved populations and upholding the rule of law. Watch the full video series here:
#YLSFrontLines
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Classic winter activities after New Haven’s first real snowstorm of 2023: ☃️ snowman making, 🤾♀️⚪ a snowball fight, 🌨️🚶and a snowy Courtyard walk.
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Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by
@samuelmoyn
explores the social & economic history of human rights.
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Senior Research Scholar Linda Greenhouse chronicles the remarkable life and groundbreaking career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this
@nytimes
obituary.
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Two Law School Clinics have joined forces seeking information related to the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
@MFIAClinic
and
@YLS_ROLC
filed a complaint yesterday on behalf of
@rgoodlaw
and
@just_security
.
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