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March 5, 2012Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law at Harvard Law SchoolProfessor Annette Gordon-Reed delivered the 2011-2012 James A. Thomas Lecture on March 5, 2012, at Yale Law School. In her lecture – titled “Slavery and Race: Monticello Legacies” – Professor Gordon-Reed discusses the struggles implicit in Jefferson’s Monticello and their relationship to our national identity and ideals.Gordon-Reed is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Professor of History in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her epic work, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as the 2008 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, as well as some twelve other awards. Gordon-Reed was awarded a 2009 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama and was named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow in 2010.
February 16, 2012Michael Wishnie, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Jerome N. Frank Legal Services OrganizationMuneer Ahmad, Clinical Professor of LawIn 2007, on the heels of a controversial decision by New Haven's Board of Aldermen to grant municipal identification cards to all residents of New Haven (regardless of immigration status), Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a series of immigration raids in New Haven, arresting dozens of Latino residents. Since that day, students in Yale Law School's Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic have represented many of those arrested, filing Freedom of Information requests, federal and state lawsuits, and working on policy intervention in addition to representing those arrested in their immigration cases. On February 14, 2012, the federal government agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit that arose from those raids. The landmark settlement will include a payment of $350,000 to 11 of those arrested in the raids and immigration relief for the plaintiffs. In this podcast, Yale Law School Professors Michael Wishnie and Muneer Ahmad talk about the clinic's involvement representing those arrested beginning in 2007 and continuing through the settlement.
February 14, 2012Chris Hansen, attorney for the ACLURichard Marsh, General Counsel of Myriad GeneticsRochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law at NYUDr. Allen Bale, Director of the DNA Diagnostic Lab and Professor of Genetics at the Yale School of MedicineOn February 14, 2012, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project hosted the following panel discussion about gene patents at Yale Law School. Panelists included: Chris Hansen, attorney for the ACLU; Richard Marsh, General Counsel of Myriad Genetics; Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law at NYU; and Dr. Allen Bale, Director of the DNA Diagnostic Lab and Professor of Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine. The panelists discussed whether human genes should be patentable. Is isolated DNA a "product of nature" or a "man-made invention?" Do gene patents on balance promote innovation or harm it?
February 25, 2012Professor Douglas Kysar (Yale Law School)Professor Richard Epstein (Chicago/ NYU)Professor Daniel Farber (Berkeley)Benjamin Ewing The following panel discussion on “Climate Change in the Courts” features Yale Law School Professor Douglas Kysar; Benjamin Ewing ’11; New York University School of Law Professor Richard Epstein; and Berkley Law Professor Daniel Farber, who debate the role of courts in responding to global warming.
The Honorable Jeh Charles Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of DefenseFebruary 22, 2012Jeh Johnson delivered the following Dean’s Lecture at Yale Law School on
Feb. 22, 2012. Johnson discussed lawyering in the Obama Administration
in this lecture, titled “National Security Law, Lawyers and Lawyering in
the Obama Administration.”
Scott J. Shapiro, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School discusses his book “Legality” in this talk, which took place on February 21, 2012. Yale Law School Professor Heather Gerken provides commentary. Sponsored by the Lillian Goldman Law LibraryFeb 21, 2012
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia UniversityJanuary 31, 2012In this, the second lecture in the two-part Storrs Lecture series of 2012, Professor Sassen discusses “Ungoverned Territories or New Types of Rights and Authority?”
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia UniversityJanuary 30, 2012 In this, the first lecture in the two-part Storrs Lecture series of 2012, Professor Sassen discusses “The Making of New Bordering Capabilities.”
Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in LawA Book Discussion, sponsored by the Lillian Goldman Law LibraryFebruary 1, 2012In this discussion, Yale Law School Sterling Professsor Emeritus Owen Fiss reflects upon his time advising Argentinian President Raúl Alfonsín and his administration during the human rights trials that the country conducted in the mid 1980s. From that experience, Professor Fiss came to see human rights as universal social ideals that are also deeply rooted in a country's processes of national self-determination. In his talk, Professor Fiss explains how states engaging in the transition from dictatorship to democracy, like Argentina, can protect human rights through civil, not just criminal, proceedings. Professor Fiss also takes on the human rights issues posed by the fight against terrorism in the post-9/11 era within the context of national law.
Robert C. Post ’77, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of LawA book discussion with commentary by Professor Jack M. BalkinSponsored by the Lillian Goldman Law LibraryFebruary 7, 2012 In his new book, titled Democracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: a First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State, Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post ’77 shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the "marketplace of ideas" and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an opinion," is inadequate to create and preserve the expert knowledge that is necessary for a modern democracy to thrive. This book discussion took place on February 7, 2012, at Yale Law School.
P. Sabin Willett, Partner, Bingham McCutchenOctober 24, 2011 P. Sabin Willett, Partner at Bingham McCutchen, delivered the 2011-2012 Preiskel-Silverman Lecture, titled “Your Guantánamo Moment” on October 24, 2011. In this lecture, Willett discusses his own work trying to win freedom for Uighur prisoners seized during the Afghanistan War and held at Guantánamo Bay.
Albie Sachs, former South Africa Constitutional Court JusticeSeptember 21, 2011Renowned human rights activist and former South Africa Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs delivered the Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship Lecture at Yale Law School on September 21, 2011. The lecture, titled “The Judge Who Cried: Social and Economic Rights as Judicially Enforceable Fundamental Rights.”In his talk, Justice Sachs reflects on the demand for housing made by South African activist Irene Grootboom and other evicted shack dwellers, and on the demand for anti-retroviral drugs made by HIV-positive women about to give birth. He addresses the question, “Can the Constitutional Court of South Africa grant constitutional remedies without intruding unduly on the legitimate spheres of decision-making by the legislature and executive?”
February 28, 2011An expert in American legal history, John Fabian Witt joined Yale Law School in 2009. In this, his inaugural lecture as the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Witt discusses the puzzling history of the laws of wars, dating back to the time of the Civil War and the wartime instructions known as "Lieber's code."
February 17, 2011Yale Law School Professor Stephen L. Carter, author of "Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy," shares his thoughts on the issue of civility in politics in this lecture, sponsored by the Yale Law Democrats and Yale Law Republicans.
Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught since 1982. Among his courses are law and religion, the ethics of war, contracts, intellectual property, and professional responsibility. Much of his work focuses on the creationof conditions for rational dialogue, while preserving a rich diversity of points of view, whether at home or in international affairs.
February 7, 2011Stanford law professor Michael W. McConnell, an expert on freedom of speech and religion, delivered the 2011 Ralph Gregory Elliot Lecture on February 7, 2011, at Yale Law School. McConnell is the Richard & Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, as well as Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a leading authority on freedom of speech and religion, the relation of individual rights to government structure, originalism, and various other aspects of constitutional history and constitutional law. Before joining Stanford in 2009, McConnell served as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He is the only full-time professor of law in the nation who has previously served as a federal appellate judge. He has argued 13 cases in the United States Supreme Court, most recently Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, in 2010.
January 31, 2011Kevin R. Czinger '87, co-founder and strategic advisor to CODA Automotive has extensive experience operating start-up and growth companies. The following lecture, titled "Lessons from Two Decades of New Business Creation-From Satellite Television to Electric Cars" was delivered on January 31, 2011 as part of the Yale Symposium on Law and Management, which was co-sponsored by Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management.Czinger previously served as president and CEO of CODA, an electric car and battery company headquartered in Santa Monica, California,where he oversaw the management and strategic direction of the company. Prior to CODA, he was a partner and managing director at Fortress Private Equity, an alternative asset management firm, and an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital. He also served as senior vice president, Operations and Finance, and chief financial officer of Webvan Group.Prior to Webvan, Czinger was a managing director in the media and telecommunications group at Merrill Lynch and also served as the CEO of Volcano Entertainment, a record and music publishing company he founded. In the early 1990s, he was executive director and head of the media-banking group at Goldman Sachs International in London.Czinger holds a B.A. from Yale College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
January 24, 2011The following podcast is a recording of Jean Koh Peters’s inaugural lecture as the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law. The lecture, titled “Dignity, Voice, Story,” touches upon Professor Peters’s work representing children and refugees and her approach to clinical law teaching.An expert in children, families, and the law, Peters joined Yale Law School in 1989 as an associate clinical professor and supervising attorney for The Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization. She was named clinical professor in 1993 and was named the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law in October 2009. She previously was an assistant clinical professor at Columbia Law School and associate director of Columbia’s Child Advocacy Clinic. Prior to that, she served as a staff attorney in the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York City, after clerking for the late William P. Gray of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
December 9, 2010In this book discussion, Reva Siegel ’86, the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law and Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL, the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, discuss their book, “Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling.” Yale Law School Professor Jack M. Balkin provides an introduction and commentary to frame the discussion.
December 2, 2010In this podcast, Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law Douglas Kysar speaks on his book "Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity." Following Kysar’s remarks, Robert Verchick, Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law, Loyola University New Orleans, discusses Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World. These remarks were delivered on December 2, 2010 at Yale Law School.
Lecture sponsored by the Yale chapter of the American Constitution Society December 1, 2010Professor Dawn Johnsen ’86, former acting assistant attorney general under President Clinton and two-time President Obama nominee to head the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, spoke at Yale Law School on December 1, 2010 about reproductive rights, torture, the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, and the confirmation process, among other topics.
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