Yale will be the site of a very rare occurrence — a lecture by a sitting member of the U.S. Supreme Court — when Associate Justice Stephen Breyer takes the podium on Monday, Feb. 15, in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St.Breyer’s talk, “...
Yale’s Haiti medical relief team has returned from the earthquake-ravaged nation. Meanwhile, efforts continue on campus to raise funds to help victims of the disaster and to raise awareness about the conditions there.Medical team returnsThe six-member...
Juvenile justice, segregation and school reform, reducing drug crime without putting people in prison, and Muslim Americans and the legal professions are among the topics that will be addressed at the 16th annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference, held at...
An international group of scholars and public interest advocates will discuss the intersections between global knowledge policy and human rights during a three-day Access to Knowledge Conference hosted by the Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP...
New research conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that people’s cultural values influence how risky they perceive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to be and thus, their views on whether or not the vaccine to...
Seymour B. Sarason, who is credited with founding the discipline of community psychology and was a longtime member of the Yale faculty, died on Jan. 29 in New Haven. He was 91.Sarason, professor emeritus of psychology, joined the Yale faculty in 1945 and...
On Wednesday, Feb. 3, Alberto Manguel, internationally acclaimed essayist, novelist, anthologist, translator and editor, will deliver the Finzi-Contini Lecture under the auspices of the Whitney Humanies Center (WHC).Manguel’s talk, titled “Borges and the...
Yale Law School professor emeritus and alumnus Daniel J. Freed, a pioneer in the criminal justice process and a key figure in the development of clinical education at the Law School, died Jan. 17 in New York. He was 82.Freed was clinical professor...
Multimedia journalist Farai Chideya will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Monday, February 1.Chideya’s talk, “Be the Media You Want to See: How Social Media and Citizen Journalism Are Changing the World,” will take place at...
Three leading activists for urban food reform in New York and New Haven will meet at Yale on January 28 in a public panel discussion on educating youngsters about the importance of good food and making affordable healthy food available to urban residents....