Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
It may be getting harder than it used to be to find a lawyer at Yale Law School. As a legal education becomes increasingly common as preparation for careers in fields other than law, the Law School is expanding its programming and luring new faculty with the goal of reaching out to students interested in pursuing other professions. The phenomenon, which Law School Dean...
Two Yale Law School students will advocate for more than 600,000 Connecticut schoolchildren before the state Supreme Court in Hartford today. For the two students in Yale’s Education Adequacy Clinic, David Noah LAW ’09 and Neil Weare LAW ’08, more than a year of work will culminate today as they present their oral argument in a case that will decide whether...
A month after Harvard Law School unveiled a much-hyped public-service tuition incentive that had Yale Law School officials on the defensive, Yale has breathed new life into its own assistance programs for students planning to enter public service. The Law School will raise the baseline income below which graduates’ loans are forgiven from $46,500 to $60,000, double the...
It is important for lawyers and journalists to work together in breaking controversial stories, panelists asserted at a Law School discussion Tuesday afternoon that brought together prominent journalists and lawyers from ABC News and The Washington Post. The discussion, entitled “Covering Scandals,” analyzed the process of breaking high-profile stories from the...
Yale placed first in three sets of rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” released Friday. The survey includes rankings of both professional schools and graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Yale Law School topped the list of law schools — a feat it has accomplished every year since the rankings began in...
After 30 years covering the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winner Linda Greenhouse will return to Yale Law School to become its journalist-in-residence and a senior fellow starting next January, the Law School announced Wednesday. Greenhouse, who accepted a buyout from the Times last month, will return to the law school from which she earned a...
Just months after Harvard unveiled a financial-aid overhaul for undergraduates that left other universities, including Yale, scrambling to keep pace, Harvard Law School announced last week what Harvard administrators pitched as a similar tuition shake-up. Harvard will now forgive the third year of tuition for law students who commit to at least five years of public...
After 30 years covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winner Linda Greenhouse will take a new post as a journalist-in-residence and senior fellow at Yale Law School starting next January, the Law School announced Wednesday. Greenhouse, who accepted a buyout from The Times last month, will return to the law school from which she earned a Master...
When Adam Goldfarb ’02 SOM ’05 LAW ’09 returned to New Haven after months campaigning for Barack Obama, he found his bedroom redecorated with about 30 campaign posters for Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 — under his pillow, under his bed, in his drawers. He knew who was responsible for the prank; his roommate Addisu Demissie ’01 LAW ’08 is the state director of the...
The rankings of the 100 best law reviews in this month’s issue of the National Jurist were bittersweet for Eli law students: The Yale Law Journal and Harvard Law Review tied for first. The study, compiled by Washington & Lee University Law School librarian John Doyle over the last six years, seeks to gauge the journals’ influence on legal scholarship based on the...
As the only nation with the power to blunt the nuclearization of Iran and North Korea, the United States must act decisively to defuse the threat from those two countries, former Bush administration diplomat John Bolton ’70 LAW ’74 said at the Law School on Thursday. The mustachioed former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations — whose nomination to the post in 2006...
Yale Law students are used to having their alumni in the White House. Perhaps that’s why the prospect of another has little bearing on their choice for the next president. Law students interviewed Tuesday night said Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 Yale degree is not a factor in their decision of whom to support in the 2008 election. Many law students are active...
