After she testified before Congress in 1991 alleging sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Anita Hill ’80 J.D. heard from many people who told her that they didn’t even know that sexual harassment was against...
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 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,...
Yale alumnus Markus Reneau ’19 is among 10 individuals who have been named inaugural Marshall-Motley Scholars by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF). The scholarship covers the cost of law school to train the next generation of civil...
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...
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...
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 —...