Yale Law School

Conversations With Christopher Bessette and Dermot Mulroney on Trade of Innocents

Nicki Richesin | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Trade of Innocents, Dermot Mulroney, Human Rights, Yale Law School, Slavery, Ngos, Trieu Tran, Yale University, Film, Christopher Bessette, Mira Sorvino, Bangkok, Human Trafficking, Yale, Entertainment News
Nicki Richesin

The problem of human trafficking is all over the world. Slavery is alive and well in the 21st century; it's time we as a people put an end to it. It's definitely time modern day abolitionists made it known we are not going to turn away from it anymore.

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'The Greening Of America,' A #1 Bestseller, Has Long Been Out Of Print. Now It's Back, Just As Relevant As It Was In 1970.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2012

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Jesse Kornbluth

The New Yorker issue of September 26, 1970 contained a 70-page, 39,000-word excerpt from The Greening of America -- the longest book excerpt in its hi...

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Is This Yale's First Tenured Hispanic Law Professor?

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Cristina Rodriguez, Video, Yale Law School, Hispanic Tenured Professor, Latino Professors, Tenured Professors, Latino Prosperity, Latino Voices News

According to the Yale Daily News, renowned immigration law professor Cristina Rodriguez has been offered tenure at the Yale Law School, one of the top...

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Vineland School District In N.J. Lifts LGBT Website Filter

Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Aclu, Yale Law School, Vineland High School, Gay Rights, New Jersey Schools, Harvey Milk, Lgbt Schools, Human Rights Campaign, Vineland District, Education News

After New Jersey students and staff complained to the American Civil Liberties Union that LGBT sites were being blocked at school, the district remove...

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Chua, Baby

Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Mothers, Jewish Mothers Food, Humor, Chicago, Nurture Food, Satyrist, Child-Rearing, Child Rearing, Nathans Hot Dogs, Viola, School Grades, Amy Chua Chinese Mothers, Yale Law School, Violin, Satire, Wall Street Journal Chua, Amy Chua, Forte-Piano, Comedy, Piano, Chua, Rubenfeld, Comedy News
Mark Steinberg

While my self-esteem couldn't be detected by an atomic microscope, I did regard myself as a sure thing in some future Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog eating contest.

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Judith Sandalow: Politicians Are Failing An Entire Generation Of Children

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law, Abuse, 2010 Elections, Children, Diane Tucker, Fiscal Policy, Neglect, Special Education, Unemployment, Inside DC, Domestic Policy, Law Center, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Unemployment Extension, Stimulus Package, Impact, Advocacy, Poverty, Child Welfare, The Recession, Npr, Adoption, Obama?S Economic Team, Layoffs, Foster Care, Judith Sandalow, Labor, Yale Law School, Barack Obama, Homelessness, Child, Medical Legal Partnership, Homeless Shelters, Third World America, Business, Education, Rising Poverty, Poverty Rate, Poor Americans, Elections 2010, Politics News
Diane Tucker

In the shadow of the White House, nearly 45,000 American children live in poverty, a number that has been soaring since 2007. The District of Columbia...

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East Haven Police Bias: More Than Half Of Tickets Issued Went To Hispanics Who Make Up 6% Of Population

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police Racial Profiling, Connecticut Police, Yale Law School, Racial Profiling, Connecticut Police Racial Bias, Connecticut, New York News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Students at Yale Law School on Friday released an analysis showing that more than half of the tickets East Haven police issue...

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Yale Law Grads Pass On Large Firms

Yale Daily News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last month, the National Law Journal ranked Yale Law School 18th in job placement at large law firms -- but Law School officials said they are proud o...

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Obama Nominee Moves Forward After GOP Hold Forces Dems To Take Anti-Filibuster Measure

The Washington Independant | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Monday, nearly four months after President Obama nominated Harold Koh to become legal adviser to the State Department, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fil...

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Meet the U.N. Secretary General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, The Man Called Deng Majok, Father Miguel Brockman, U.S. Library of Congress, United Nations General Assembly, Office of the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, United States Institute of Peace, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Nobel Peace Prize, Center for International Studies at MIT, Conflict Resolution Studies, Global Citizens, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Sadako Ogata, Sudan, Ban Ki-Moon, Ngok Dinka, City University of New York, David Hamburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Thought Leaders, Brookings Institution, U.N. Under-Secretary General for Genocide, Francis M. Deng, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Peter Yarrow, General Romeo Dallaire, Arc-Bishop Tutu, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Yale Law School, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Gareth Evans, World News
Jim Luce

Sudanese Diplomat Francis Deng believes genocide can be anticipated and even stopped before it begins.

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More about Sonia Sotomayor, From Someone Who Knew Her at Yale

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bella DePaulo

Rachel Moran: "The stigma of singledom seems to have disappeared when it comes to qualifying for high office, both for men like David Souter and women like Sonia Sotomayor."

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The Biggest Loser

Gregory Allen Howard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Affirmative Action and African Americans, Supreme Court, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Obama Inauguration, Affirmative Action, Obama Clarence Thomas, Jobs, Harvard, Obama Harvard, Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, Yale, Obama Harvard Law Review, Yale Law School, Inauguration, Harvard Law School, Yale Law, Racism, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, African-Americans, Politics News
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.

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