Claire Kenny
Claire Kenny
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Lesson from Rwanda must be applied to Darfur
During an 100-day period beginning April 6, 1994, genocide in Rwanda claimed the lives of at least 800,000 people while the outside world made little effort to stop the killings. Though the U.N. Security Council and the United States in particular have...
Change atop law, med schools
Two of Yale's professional schools will be getting new deans in the next year, with School of Medicine Dean David Kessler's recent departure and Yale Law School Dean Anthony Kronman's plans to step down in June. Kessler, whose position is being filled...
Eizenstat discusses injustice, his new book
As a teenager heading home from synagogue on a crowded Atlanta bus, Stuart Eizenstat failed to break with 1960s segregationist norms and did not give up his seat to an elderly black woman. Eizenstat, a top-ranking diplomat in the Clinton...
Former prof gets nod for judgeship
President George W. Bush recently nominated Stephen C. Robinson, a former Yale Law School professor and interim manager of Empower New Haven, for a federal judgeship in the Southern District of New York. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York announced...
Law School panel debates Iraq issues
Experts consider ways to rebuild nations
As foreign policymakers debate similar issues in Afghanistan and Iraq, professors and human rights experts at the Law School debated the relationship between local and international actors in rebuilding war-torn nations during a weekend symposium.
Some law students to join strike
With a GESO strike set for next week, some law school students, though not formal members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, said they will strike alongside GESO members as a display of solidarity. GESO members voted on Feb.
Black law students file Mich. brief
Highlighting the specific necessity of affirmative action in law school admissions, the Black Law Students Associations from Yale, Harvard and Stanford law schools filed a brief with the Supreme Court Tuesday in defense of the University of Michigan...
CIA legend, Yale grad dies at 88
Walter L. Pforzheimer '35 LAW '38, a World War II veteran who helped found the Central Intelligence Agency, died Monday after a lengthy illness. He was 88. During World War II, Pforzheimer organized several operations for the Office of Strategic...
Second JAG visit draws students' ire
Protesters rail against 'don't ask, don't tell'
For the second time in four months, law students donned gags and protested the appearance of military recruiters at a Yale Law School interview program Thursday. Recruiters from the Air Force, Army and Navy Judge Advocate General corps, or JAG corps...
30 years later, scholars 'retry' Roe v. Wade
Thirty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling made abortion legal in the United States, Yale Law School professors hosted speakers and programs to examine the uncertain future of abortion rights. With the prospect of a more conservative Supreme...