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...
There will be a memorial service on Sunday, April 5, for Dr. Jay Katz, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, who died on Nov. 17 at age 86.The service will take place at 1 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium...
Gary B. Gorton, the inaugural Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management and Finance, has done research in many areas of finance, examining such topics as the role of stock markets and banks, credit cycles, arbitrage pricing, commodity futures...
Andrew Metrick, newly named as the inaugural Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Corporate Governance, focuses his research and teaching on venture capital, private equity, corporate governance and decision-making under uncertainty.In his most recent...
The complex moral and legal issues surrounding the discussion of immigration policy in the United States will be examined at a symposium taking place on Thursday-Friday, April 2-3, at the Yale Law School.“Beyond Borders: Immigration Policy in the New...
The evolving form and function of libraries in the digital age will be considered at a symposium being hosted on Saturday, April 4, at the Yale Law School.The “Library 2.0 Symposium” is hosted by the Yale Information Society Project (ISP), which studies...
Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to Madagascar and across the Pacific Ocean), died on Dec. 14....
Henry Ashby Turner, the Charles J. Stille Professor Emeritus of History, died at Yale-New Haven Hospital on Dec. 17 from complications of melanoma.A leading scholar of modern German history, Turner was the author of several books and many articles, among...
Elizabeth Alexander, an award-winning poet and Yale professor of African American studies and English literature, has been selected to compose and read an original poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. Click here for more...