Muneer Ahmad, James Forman Jr., and Samuel Moyn were appointed to endowed professorships.
Ahmad, named as the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, focuses his teaching, scholarship, and practice on the intersections of immigration, race, and citizenship...
Yale faculty members Robin Dembroff and Issa Kohler-Hausmann were relieved when the Supreme Court announced its landmark June 15 ruling that federal civil rights law protects gay and transgender people from discrimination in the workplace. But the two —...
Elizabeth Hinton and Phillip Atiba Goff have been crossing paths for a long time.
With a mutual interest in policing, racial injustice, and criminal reform, Hinton, a historian, and Goff, a social psychologist, have often collaborated professionally. But...
Since its publication in November, “The Orchard,” a debut novel by first-year Yale Law School student and Yale College graduate David Hopen ’17 has been reviewed or cited in publications as varied as The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The New...
Did you know that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake” and that “War is hell” did not originate with William Tecumseh Sherman?
These are some of the fun facts one discovers in “The New Yale Book of Quotations,” edited by Fred R. Shapiro,...
Yale historian David Blight visited Richmond, Virginia, often in the late 1990s while researching the Civil War’s effect on American memory. When not sifting through archives, he’d jog along the city’s famed Monument Avenue, named for the five grandiose...
Yale Law School faculty member Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 J.D., a poet and lawyer whose own imprisonment as a teenager led him to become an advocate for incarcerated people, is one of three Yale affiliates to be awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship,...
After the American Indian Sovereignty Project was established last summer, its leaders knew that they would be busy with scholarly engagements in contemporary issues in federal Indian law. But the group, a collaboration between Yale and New York...
