Bruce Ackerman, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School, received the Insignia of Commander of the French Order of Merit from the Republic of France at a ceremony at Yale on March 1. The award was presented by Madame...
Carlos Fuentes, prominent author and Mexican statesman, will visit Yale University as a Chubb Fellow and present a lecture, “Globalization: Pros and Cons,” on April 14 at Center Church on the Green, 311 Temple Street, at 4:30 p.m. Fuentes is being...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Ian Shapiro as the Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS), for a term of five years, beginning July 1, 2004. Shapiro is The William...
Yale Law School’s Information Society Project will host “Digital Cops in a Virtual Environment,” a conference on cyber-crime and digital law enforcement, at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, March 26-28. The conference will address the problem of cyber-...
Thanks to a new oral history project funded by Yale and a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, memories of a bygone era of closely knit neighborhoods are being recorded and preserved for future generations. About two dozen older New...
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Yale Law School will host a conference titled “The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education: Reflections on the Last 50 Years,” April 1-3, at the Law School, 127...
Two members of the faculty of the Yale School of Art have recently been honored with distinguished awards. Robert Reed received the Distinguished Teaching of Art Award at the annual meeting of the College Art Association (CAA) held in Seattle this...
The annual symposium of the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights, titled “International Responses to State Crimes,” will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., on March 26. The symposium, which is free and open to the public...
A panel of Yale faculty members and human rights experts will hold a roundtable discussion on women living under Islamic law on April 15 at Yale’s Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street. Sponsored by Yale’s Women Faculty Forum, Center for...
Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State in the Administration of President Clinton, will speak in the Marquand Chapel of Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, on March 30 at 4 p.m. Titled “The Mighty and the Almighty: American Foreign Policy and God...