Three Yale Law School students have been named Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellows for 2009. Carel Alé, Andres Idarraga and Alexandru Iftimie — all first-year law students — are among 31 accomplished young people chosen for the honor this year....
Twelve years ago, the Yale Law School hosted a conference bringing together many of the founding members of critical race theory, an approach to civil rights that challenges the ability of conventional legal strategies to deliver social and economic...
Martin Jesse Klein, a historian of modern physics and former senior editor of “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,” passed away on March 28. He was 84 years old.At Yale, Klein was the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of the History of Physics and...
Author Bliss Broyard will read from and discuss her memoir, “One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets,” on April 16 at 8 p.m. in the Master’s Residence at Branford College, 80 High St.The event, which is free and open to the...
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones will give a public reading from his work at Yale on April 16, at 7 p.m. The free event will take place in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street. Part of the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia will speak at Yale as a Chubb Fellow on April 23 at 4 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets.The talk is free and open to the public. Sirleaf is the first woman to head an African country. She...
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will speak at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow, a Downey Fellow and a visiting fellow of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will...
The Yale Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) will host two public events with acclaimed Chinese novelist, critic and short-story writer Can Xue later this month: a reading from her work at 5 p.m. on April 16, and a panel discussion with scholars about her...
The Yale Law School’s ties to Guantánamo date back to the early 1990s, when a group of Yale faculty members and students sued the U.S. government to secure the right to visit their clients, who were among the hundreds of Haitian refugees who were being...
When he was first given an opportunity to see evidence against his client, Yale law student Joseph Pace ‘10 thought he might find what lawyers normally dread: proof of guilt.But in this case, his client — a middle-aged citizen of Algeria named Mammar...