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New YLS center seeks to safeguard and promote academic freedom, free speech

October 2, 2024

Led by Yale Law School professor Keith Whittington, The Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech launched at the start of the 2024–2025 academic year.

Taxes, inequality, and the stakes of the coming election

September 30, 2024

Led by Yale political economist Jacob Hacker, a conference earlier this month explored “the most important tax reform moment that we’ve had since the late 80s.”

Yale Law School’s growing veteran community is guided by mottos of service

September 25, 2024

Four first-year YLS students discuss their military careers, their goals for their time in New Haven, and the mottos that inspire their approach to service.

How to dismantle the mass incarceration system

September 25, 2024

Yale Law School’s James Forman Jr. discusses what it will take to reform the criminal justice system and where reforms are already making a difference.

Fight for climate justice targets meat and dairy companies

September 16, 2024

Daina Bray of Yale Law School’s Law, Ethics, and Animals Program explains how litigation against meat and dairy could impact methane emissions.

Health equity advocate Daniel Dawes joins Yale School of Nursing

September 12, 2024

Dawes, an internationally recognized leader in the health equity movement, will help advance academic programs and partnerships as Presidential Visiting Fellow.

New law students urged to find own path, embody values of legal profession

August 26, 2024

In her remarks welcoming the school’s latest class Aug. 20, Yale Law School Dean Heather K. Gerken stressed the importance of preserving community and humanity.

Yale Law School Dean Gerken speaks at ABA Democracy Summit

August 22, 2024

At the American Bar Association’s recent conference in Chicago, Dean Heather K. Gerken addressed the role of legal educators in bridging divides.

Call for applications: CBEY 2050 Fellows Discussion Group

August 13, 2024

Multidisciplinary group of Yale graduate and professional students gathers monthly to imagine a regenerative and responsible economy. Applications due Sept. 2.

Mainstreaming nature in U.S. policy

August 2, 2024

Including considerations about the natural world in federal policymaking is good governance, Yale environmental economist Eli Fenichel argues.