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    Yale Law School
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    Jul 17, 2023
    Following Yale Law School? Here’s where to find us on social media: ✅ Twitter x.com/yalelawsch ✅ LinkedIn linkedin.com/school/yale-la… ✅ Instagram instagram.com/yalelawschool ✅ Facebook facebook.com/YaleLawSchool ✅ Threads threads.net/@yalelawschool ✅ Vimeo vimeo.com/yalelaw
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    Yale Law School
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    Sep 28, 2018
    Dean Gerken Joins the ABA in Calling for Further Investigation.
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    Jul 8, 2020
    A Message from Dean Gerken on Support for International Students law.yale.edu/yls-today/news…
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    Apr 10, 2019
    Yale Law School Dean @GerkenHeather addresses Yale Law School's Commitment to Nondiscrimination. law.yale.edu/yls-today/news…
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    Yale Law School
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    Nov 16, 2022
    Yale Law School will no longer participate in the U.S. News annual law school rankings. Despite calls for reform, U.S. News continues to employ flawed metrics that devalue public service work and need-based aid for students from low-income backgrounds.
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    Dean Gerken: Why Yale Law School Is Leaving the U.S. News & World Report Rankings
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    Yale Law School
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    Jul 9, 2020
    .@Newsweek quotes the message of support from @GerkenHeather for our international students and how YLS faculty would help continue in-person learning: "One of my colleagues told me that he would teach outside in the snow if he needed to," she said.
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    U.S. Profs Offer 'Independent Study' Classes to Prevent Student Deportation
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    Yale Law School
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    May 20, 2019
    Special guest speaker @neal_katyal ’95 addresses the graduating class. #YaleLaw2019
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    Yale Law School
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    Aug 13, 2019
    Professor @JohnFabianWitt and Will Smiley ’14 discovered a manuscript lost for a century in the @USNatArchives by Francis Lieber, legal adviser to President Lincoln. The work reverberates into the age of the laws of terrorism.
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    Rediscovering a Lost Treatise on Martial Law
    For a century, a manuscript by Francis Lieber, political theorist and legal adviser to Abraham Lincoln, lay lost in the recesses of the National Archives — until it was discovered by Allen H. Duffy...
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    Yale Law School
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    Sep 24, 2019
    A unanimous decision of the 2nd Circuit today ruled that the @NAACP can proceed in its lawsuit challenging Connecticut’s discriminatory practice of counting incarcerated people where they are imprisoned, rather than in their home districts.
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    Federal Appeals Court: NAACP Prison Gerrymandering Suit May Proceed
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    Yale Law School
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    Sep 24, 2018
    In response to the student action taking place today in New Haven and Washington, D.C., Dean Heather Gerken released the following statement.
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    Yale Law School
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    Jul 14, 2018
    Judge Bolden declared unconstitutional the federal government’s forcible separation of two immigrant children, represented by YLS's WIRAC.
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    Federal Judge Holds Forcible Separation of Immigrant Children Unconstitutional
    U.S. District Court Judge Victor Bolden declared unconstitutional the federal government’s forcible separation of two immigrant children from their parents, and ordered the government to take...
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    Yale Law School
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    Jun 7, 2023
    A Lowenstein Clinic study finds that Ethiopia and its allies violated international law by using starvation of civilians as a weapon of war in Tigray. (via @schellcenter)
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    Lowenstein Clinic Finds Ethiopia and Allies Responsible for Mass Starvation in Tigray
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    Yale Law School
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    Aug 22, 2025
    Say hello to our new LL.M. students! The 29 students entering the LL.M. (Master of Laws) program this year come to Yale Law School from six continents.
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    Yale Law School
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    Oct 28, 2025
    Former senior government officials represented by the Rule of Law Clinic are urging the Supreme Court to rule that President Trump’s sweeping tariffs are an illegal use of an emergency powers law.
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    Rule of Law Clinic Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Tariffs Case
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