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....
John Edwin Smith, an early champion of the tradition of American philosophy who taught at Yale for nearly 40 years, died on Dec. 7 while visiting his daughter in Arlington, Virginia. He was 88 years old.Smith’s many publications include “Reason and God,...
Bruce Gordon, the newly appointed Titus Street Professor of Theology, is a specialist in late-medieval and early-modern religious history.His particular interests include the Swiss and German Reformations, Bibles, devotional literature, the clergy, death...
Oona A. Hathaway, newly designated as the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, focuses her current research on the intersection of domestic and international law.Hathaway is the author of the “Strong States: Strong World:...
Jean Peters, the inaugural Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, specializes in advocacy for children, children and the law, refugee and asylum law, and advocacy for parents.Peters is also the supervising attorney of the Law School’s Jerome N. Frank...
Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been appointed to the National Council on the Humanities, part of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).Adorno was nominated...
Alice Kaplan, newly named as the John M. Musser Professor of French, is an award-winning author whose research interests include World War II and post-war France, literature and law, biography and autobiography, and French cultural studies.Kaplan is...
Harold Hongju Koh, recently designated as the inaugural Martin R. Flug ‘55 Professor of International Law, is a leading expert on public and private international law, national security law and human rights.Koh is currently on leave while serving as legal...
