Yale Daily News

Sayda Martinez-Alvarado ’23, Angelin Mathew ’25, Chriss Tuyishime ’25 and Tony Wang ’24 will have the opportunity to pursue master's degrees at Oxford University fully funded by Rhodes scholarship.

November 19, 2024

The panel featured four pro-neutrality Yale faculty members and Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, who opposes neutrality.

September 19, 2024

On Wednesday, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance LAW ’13 officially accepted the Republican nomination for vice president in the 2024 presidential election alongside former president Donald Trump. Some Yalies praised Vance for his ability to connect with working class and younger voters while others criticized him for his flip-flopping stance on Trump.

July 19, 2024

Maurie McInnis, who was selected to be Yale’s 24th president, is renowned for her work in the cultural history of American art and material cultural studies.

May 30, 2024

Texas Senator Ted Cruz discussed free speech controversies at Yale Law School, the confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and the intellectual diversity of Yale’s campus with political commentator Michael Knowles ’12, but was met with some backlash from student protesters.

May 19, 2024

After Yale police arrested 48 pro-Palestine student protesters on Monday morning, several of the University’s cultural groups released statements condemning the University’s response and expressing support for the students involved in the protests.

April 25, 2024

Judge Stefan Underhill LAW ’84 permitted Monk v. United States — a case accusing the Department of Veteran Affairs of racial discrimination against Black veterans — to proceed, marking a rare instance in which a case seeking to redress historical discrimination overcame a motion to dismiss.

April 16, 2024

At an event co-hosted by five Yale Law School student organizations, former Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta ’96 spoke in the Sterling Law Building on April 11.

April 15, 2024

With the support of research assistants Balen Essak-Hernandez LAW ’25 and Courtney Perales LAW ’25, law professor Daniel Loehr filed an amicus brief in a case before the Colorado Supreme Court arguing that the states’ habitual criminal law is rooted from the eugenics movement.

April 10, 2024

In 2021, Erin Morrow Hawley LAW ’05 — a former law clerk of Chief Justice John Roberts and wife of Republican senator Josh Hawley LAW ’06 — joined the legal group that helped argue against the right to an abortion in Dobbs. Today, she is the lead counsel in the next major abortion case to reach the Supreme Court, which could significantly restrict nationwide access to abortion pills if the Court aligns with Hawley’s arguments.

April 9, 2024

Retired Judge Thomas Griffith of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson spoke about their professional experiences working together from opposing sides of the political spectrum.

April 3, 2024