Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
Ami Parekh is a 29-year-old joint J.D.–M.D. candidate graduating from Yale Law School this May. In her first year at Yale, she got involved with Universities Allied for Essential Medicines; the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics; and the American Constitutional Society. But she does not have time for those activities and the late-night meetings they entail...
With the future of outgoing Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh’s career now in the hands of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the University is set to begin the long process of finding the school’s 16th dean. University President Richard Levin said Tuesday he will form a committee in the “next week or so” to begin the process of replacing Koh, who was...
President Barack Obama tapped Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh for the top legal post at the State Department on Monday. If he is confirmed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Koh will resign his deanship and take a public service leave from the Law School. As legal adviser to the State Department, Koh would serve as principal counselor on all legal matters...
Speaking at the Yale Law School on Monday, a former U.N. high commissioner for human rights called upon the international community to break the link between peace and justice. In front of approximately 120 law students and faculty members, Louise Arbour reflected on what she described as the “ongoing tug-of-war” between the relative importance of peace and justice...
The United States Supreme Court has handed Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic another victory, the clinic’s second in the span of just six weeks. The nation’s highest court ruled 8-1 Tuesday that former Eritrean prison guard Daniel Girmai Negusie, who was forced by the Eritrean government to mistreat inmates in his homeland, could still be considered for asylum...
A case pitting Connecticut public school administrators against a high school student’s personal blog took center stage at a Yale Law School conference on free speech over the weekend. The case, Doninger v. Niehoff, ruled on contentious issues forming the heart of debate at the conference, “The Future of Internet Speech: What Are We Teaching the Facebook...
High-powered lawyers who serve high-powered individuals are not strangers to the halls of Yale Law School — but no one can top Bob Bauer’s client. Bauer, personal lawyer to President Barack Obama and chairman of the Political Law Group of Perkins Coie LLP, surveyed the history of campaign finance reform Thursday before a Yale Law School crowd of 80. In his hour-long...
Gregory Fleming LAW ’88 was appointed a senior research scholar and distinguished visiting fellow of the Center for the Study of Corporate Law at Yale Law School on Thursday. Fleming, a recognized expert in global asset management, was the president and chief operating officer at Merrill Lynch prior to the firm’s $24 billion acquisition by Bank of America last week...
After examining hundreds of federal documents, a team of Yale Law School students determined that “Operation Front Line” — an anti-terrorism program initiated by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency — has been racially profiling individuals from majority Muslim nations. Just two months ago, the Law School became the first institution outside of...
In 2002, the terms “war on terror,” “enemy combatant” and Guantánamo Bay had only recently become buzzwords in a post-Sept. 11 United States, under the first term of President George W. Bush ’68. That year, Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh and visiting lecturer and private-practice lawyer Jonathan Freiman LAW ’98 co-founded the Law School’s National...
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh will testify before a congressional subcommittee today about restoring the rule of law in the United States. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, chaired by Sen. Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, will examine what the next president and Congress should do to repair the damage to constitutional...
The Yale Law School auditorium was transformed Friday from a classroom into a courtroom. Students were privy to up-close Connecticut Supreme Court action when it set up shop at the Law School, part of a decades-old program that takes the court on the road to universities and high schools across the state. “[The session] provides an opportunity for students to observe...
