Yale Law

Sotomayor's Clothes Picked By Government Officials During Supreme Court Nomination, Says New Justice

AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen f...

The Biggest Loser

Gregory Allen Howard | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics


Gregory Allen Howard

If a white man with Clarence Thomas's meager background of minor government bureaucrat had been put up for the Supreme Court, there would have been outrage. Except that he was Black.

In Obama's America, Road to Power No Longer Runs Through Law Firms

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.22.2008 | Business


Glenn Hurowitz

Lawyers will soon have to choose: spend your career serving your country, or spend it serving your corporation. But we have to make sure that those who embrace public service can make a decent living.

Thomas: My Yale Law Degree Is Worth '15 Cents'

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent price tag stuck to his Yale law degree, blaming the school's affirmative action policies in ...