Jocelyn Courtney
Jocelyn Courtney
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Lecture series offers law career information
With Yale Law School alumni on the United States Supreme Court, holding top government offices and acting as partners in globally-ranked law firms, there is no shortage of prominent alumni to recruit as speakers for current law students. But although...
Professional schools diverge on TA strike
As GESO activists walk the picket lines for the third day, they march without significant support from their peers at Yale's three largest professional schools. Last week brought public protests from students at the Yale School of Art and the School of...
Professor leads crusade against Word's grammar
When professor Sandeep Krishnamurthy collected the term papers from one of his classes at the University of Washington, he was shocked by the egregious errors in one of his students' papers -- so bad that he would not grade the paper. In frustration...
Civil unions bill is unlikely to end debate
As the Connecticut legislature moves closer to becoming the first state to pass civil unions for same-sex couples without a court order, a battle is still brewing in the state courts over same-sex marriage. Last August, the gay rights activist group...
Law grads gravitate to public work
After spending $36,490 a year on their law school educations, come graduation Yale Law students are more likely than those at their peer institutions to practice a type of law that will earn them one-third the amount that they could be earning at a...
Thomas's tie to alma mater remains tense
Justice's confirmation remains sore subject
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas LAW '74 has criss-crossed the country speaking to alumni and students at universities from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. to the University of Kansas in Lawrence. But in his 14 years on the...
Yale Law remains number one as criticism of ranking rises
Yale Law School will spend 2006 as the number one law school in the country again, while other University graduate and professional schools are ranked among the best in the nation according to the 2006 edition of U.S. News and World Report's Rankings...
Profs look for order in March Madness
While the toughest competition most employees face in March Madness office pools comes from die-hard college basketball fans, professors and staff at the Yale School of Management must contend with something else entirely -- colleagues who are not only...
Law School reports stats on admissions
As admissions officers once again pour over this year's thousands of applications to the Yale Law School, they say the volume of students applying for the class of 2009 is almost identical to last year's -- a finding consistent with national trends...
Law students join hearings
When a national committee that sets procedural rules for federal courts held a series of public hearings this February in Washington D.C., joining the lawyers and other professionals who offered testimony were five first-year Yale Law School students.