Stephen Butler
Stephen Butler
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Cuban soul fills new cafe
With spring break still two months away, Yalies can find a taste of the Caribbean just a few steps off the snow-covered streets of chilly New Haven. The corner of High and Crown streets, which has long suffered from the uninspired food and dreary...
Clerkship has perks for new law grads
When Yale Law School students graduate, they often have myriad job offers from law firms, non-profit groups and corporations awaiting them. But approximately 40 percent of students in each graduating class spend their first year after graduation...
Elis lead fight against military recruitment
Yale Law School has been a hotbed of political activism for decades, but over the course of the last year, students and faculty members at the Law School have been particularly vocal and unified in their outspoken opposition to the 1995 Solomon...
Law students seek public interest work, full-time jobs in summer
As summer approaches, some Yale undergraduates are still scrambling to write cover letters and send out resumes in a last-minute search for internships. Most students at Yale Law, however, have already secured summer jobs with groups as diverse as the...
Summit reflects on equality
Conference tackles civil rights and the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton LAW '73 addressed a capacity crowd in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium Saturday afternoon, discussing civil rights and educational equality in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court...
NAACP looks into racial gaps in sentencing
The Greater New Haven chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has launched an investigation of racial disparities in prison sentences in the state of Connecticut. With the help of law students from Yale, Quinnipiac and...
Knight ends law school fellowship
Program funds law school for journalists
After 15 years of sponsoring a total of 74 journalists studying at the Yale Law School, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will discontinue its funding of the Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists, effectively ending the program this fall.
Armed Services approves bill strengthening Solomon
The U.S. House Armed Services Committee approved a bill last week that strengthens the 1995 Solomon Amendment, which withholds federal funding from universities that restrict military recruiters' access to their students. The full U.S. House of...
French laud Ackerman's achievements
Law School and political science professor Bruce Ackerman was awarded the Insignia of Commander of the French Order of Merit by French Minister for European Affairs Noelle Lenoir at a ceremony at the Law School Monday. Ackerman received the award for...
E-mails seek Bloom info
Three seniors inquire about prof's conduct
Three Yale seniors sent e-mails asking current and former female students of Humanities and English professor Harold Bloom if he had ever sexually harassed them, Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said Wednesday. The e-mails came in the wake of a...