A seminar series hosted by the Women Faculty Forum and the classics department at Yale will shed light on the status of women in the Greek and Roman Empires and reveal some of the distinctly feminine customs and rituals that were common in the...
The Rebellious Lawyering Conference, the nation’s largest student-run public interest law conference, will be held February 21-23 at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Rebellious Lawyering is an annual gathering that brings together practitioners,...
Jonathan Spence, the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and a renowned authority on modern Chinese history, has been elected to serve as the president of the American Historical Association for the 2004-2005 term. Recognized as one of...
As a forthcoming exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library testifies, the law has long been a prominent theme in children’s literature. The exhibition, titled “Juvenile Jurisprudence: Law in Children’s Literature,” presents four...
At its meeting in Chicago last week, the American Historical Association (AHA) awarded the J. Russell Major Prize to Yale professor Robert Harms for his book, “The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade.” The J. Russell Major...
Yale Law School will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion on January 31 with a program titled “Roe v. Wade: Thirty Years Later,” in Room 127, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30...
On Tuesday, August 19, many of the rare books damaged in the Law School explosion in May will be removed from the freezer where they have been stored. Head of the Yale Library preservation department, Bobby Pilette, and colleagues will exhibit the Law...
Yale researchers have found that the existence of negative stereotypes about abilities such as intelligence actually enhances the performance of those who do not bear the stereotype. There have been many studies about how pervasive negative stereotypes...
A new Yale publication, “Portraits of Four Schools: Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Students and Their Families,” provides insight into how four different schools are meeting the challenges and opportunities of new languages, cultures and expectations as...
Four faculty members named as outstanding teachers were honored at the Yale College Senior Class Day program on Sunday, May 25, and a Yale historian and former master who died this spring was given a posthumous award for his dedication to students. The...