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YLS report leads to parole reform

A Yale Law School’s Criminal Justice Clinic report found that 94 percent of the parolees interviewed waived their right to a preliminary hearing and had to wait in custody for an average of three to four months before their final hearing.

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Math Department faces sharp gender imbalance

In 2013, Hee Oh GRD ’97 became the first woman in Yale’s Department of Mathematics to receive tenure. Almost five years later and following several […]

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Betts goes from convict to lawyer

Two decades after he received a nine-year prison sentence at the age of 16, Dwayne Betts LAW ’16 GRD ’23 has finally completed his journey […]

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Resist Trump, ACLU head says

President of the American Civil Liberties Union Susan Herman entered a room packed with Yale students Wednesday night to discuss civil liberties in the age […]

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University will not change standard of evidence in sexual misconduct cases

After two weeks of uncertainty regarding Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ plan to fix the current “failed system” for handling campus sexual assault, DeVos announced on […]

Law school begins historic expansion

For the first time in nearly a century, the Yale Law School is expanding its physical campus.

Yale weighs in on Supreme Court Case

The legal battle against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries will end next month when the case goes before the […]

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Law School clinic challenges DACA repeal

The Yale Law School clinic that won the first legal battle against Trump’s immigration ban came into the spotlight last week, this time as it […]

Court dismisses Law School clinic’s West Point case

The Law School’s Veterans Legal Services Clinic’s high-profile case involving a former cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point was recently dismissed […]

Administrators host forum after DACA repeal

One day after the Trump administration decided to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Yale College Dean Marvin Chun held an open forum for students […]

Colleges begin to embrace namesakes

As Pauli Murray and Benjamin Franklin colleges welcome their inaugural classes, the respective residential communities are taking steps to learn about their college namesakes. The […]