Congrats to Jack Balkin, whose article “Free Speech Versus the First Amendment,” has been selected as the winner of the 2023 Harry W. Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy!

His article was published in the UCLA Law Review.

Professor Jim Silk has received Yale’s oldest teaching award, recognizing his undergraduate human rights program that has inspired generations of Yale College students. law.yale.edu/yls-today/news…

PODCAST: Clinical Professor Muneer Ahmad tells how student law clinic WIRAC_YLS fought the rollback of DACA all the way to the Supreme Court.

Plus, he discusses 50 years of clinical education at Yale Law School.

🎧 HEAR THE EPISODE: ylaw.us/iyls0208

If you missed last week's Friday lecture with Prof Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School you can catch up at: lcil.cam.ac.uk/friday-lunchti…

WATCH: MFIA Clinic students tell DYK Media how they sued West Point to help a journalist obtain records about the secretive organization that runs that academy’s sports program.
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Eriberto Deleon Jr. walked out of prison last month ready to start a new life. Read how a student law clinic helped lead to that moment.
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Professor Jack Balkin describes his guiding principle for the The Information Society Project, one of Yale Law School’s intellectual centers. Read how these vital places provide innovative ideas to address the world’s problems. #yls200
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Through vibrant programming and critical scholarly work, dozens of centers, programs, and workshops enrich the intellectual life of Yale Law School.
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Fantastic story on the Yale Child Study Center's Medical-Legal Partnership, led by CCA attorney Kathryn Meyer. This is one of the 8 MLPs that YLS students join each semester to give back to the New Haven community & get real-world lawyering experience: hechingerreport.org/as-more-youth-…

LISTEN: Professor Oona Hathaway talks to Morning Edition about how International Criminal Court arrest warrants might affect the war in Gaza.
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President Joe Biden could win over working parents by focusing his campaign on expanding childcare, Professor Bruce Ackerman writes in a Project Syndicate commentary.
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WATCH: Berkeley Law’s Orin Kerr, a leading expert on the Fourth Amendment and criminal procedure, considers whether the amendment’s protections change when property is moved in a recent Doyle-Winter Lecture.
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📖ICYMI here's a round-up of some of the groundbreaking scholarship that our students, staff, and affiliated faculty have published this spring:
1) Faculty Director abbegluck et al.'s piece on bankruptcy and mass litigation in the Yale Law Journal: yalelawjournal.org/forum/against-…

Throughout 2024, Yale Law School is celebrating two centuries of leading the way in legal education. Watch the full video: law.yale.edu/yls-today/yale…

Professor Scott Shapiro and his students train artificial intelligence models so that law clinics can help more clients:

“That’s what motivates academics and scholars to solve problems people have always dreamed of solving.”

How Yale Law is shaping AI: bit.ly/4aCzxAx

Week 1 of reading period — the time between end of classes and the start of exams — comes to a close today.

📷: Harold Shapiro

Kathy Hunt Muse ’09, who started her public interest career as a Liman Fellow, heads the fight against gun violence for the Office of the Illinois Attorney General. @limancenter
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Employees at a Pennsylvania jail can now speak publicly about jail conditions after MFIA Clinic helped reach a settlement in a First Amendment lawsuit.
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Professor Anne Alstott has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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Yale Law School clinic WIRAC_YLS is challenging a Connecticut state agency’s rule that allows only nonunion contractors to work on damaged utility poles.
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