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* Alumni Weekend 2012 ( #aw12 )

* Ford Foundation Commits Grant to Inaugural Fellowship Program (
#ford )
* The Class of 2015 is Welcomed to Yale Law School ( #2015 )
* Yale Law Team Tackles Hard-to-Pronounce Supreme Court Case
Names ( #scotusnames )
* Alumni Events ( #alumnievents )

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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Yale Law School News

Alumni Weekend 2012 – "Entertainment
and the Law"
Justice Ginsburg to Give Inaugural Gruber
Lecture

We hope you will return to YLS to see old friends and
make new ones, meet current students, wander familiar
hallways,
gather in the courtyard, catch up with a favorite
professor,
and enjoy meals together in Commons and other eateries.
Highlights of this year’s Alumni Weekend include Friday’s
Inaugural Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women’s Rights,
featuring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

If you haven’t

registered for Alumni Weekend already, you can do so
online until midnight (eastern time) on October 4 or in
person during the reunion.
This year’s reunion weekend
will take place in New Haven on October 19-21, 2012. All
YLS alumni are invited to attend, and classes ending in
2s and 7s will be celebrating reunions with Saturday
dinners,
Sunday brunches, and other special activities. Panels will
be devoted to the theme “Entertainment and the Law.” A
full
schedule of events along with details such as
hotel
information is posted on the
Alumni Weekend website ( http://www.law.yale.edu/alumni/AW2012.htm?utm_source=YLS&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=12-3 ).

Ford Foundation Commits Grant to Inaugural Fellowship
Program

Yale Law School has received a grant from the

Ford Foundation to offer 25 Yale Law students an
unprecedented
chance to gain experience on the frontlines of public
interest
law next summer.

Launched in September, the inaugural Ford Foundation
Law School Public Interest Fellowship Program is designed
to connect highly motivated and accomplished law students
to substantive, ten-week placements with the foundation's
grantee organizations around the world, working to improve
the lives of others through legal analysis, litigation and
public policy advocacy.
More ( http://www.law.yale.edu/news/16038.htm?utm_source=YLS&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=12-3 )…

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The Class of 2015 is Welcomed to Yale Law School
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Members of the 201st class of new students
at Yale Law School hail from 10 different countries, 35
different states, and 68 different undergraduate
institutions
and speak 35 different languages. Together they hold 57
advanced graduate degrees in subjects ranging from Applied
Microeconomic Analysis to Opera. Among them are a published
novelist, a skilled archer, an award-winning poet, a beauty
queen, a juggler, an amateur boxer, a dog trainer, a
Shakespearean
actor, and a trained vegan chef. They have served as
analysts
at the FCC, the Department of the Treasury, the New Jersey
Department of Education, and the Defense Intelligence
Agency
and have advised leaders ranging from Newark Mayor Cory
Booker ’97 to the President of the Kurdistan Region in
Iraq.
More ( http://www.law.yale.edu/news/15973.htm?utm_source=YLS&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=12-3 )…

Does Tingey Rhyme With Dinghy? Yale Law Team
Tackles Hard-to-Pronounce Supreme Court Case Names

A couple
of years ago, it occurred to Yale Law School Visiting
Lecturer
Eugene Fidell that a pronouncing dictionary of Supreme
Court
case names might be “the rare example of legal scholarship
that was both useful and fun.”

Fidell assembled a group
of Yale Law students who put together a list of potential
names to include and the group began working on a
“Pronouncing
Dictionary of the Supreme Court of the United States.”
Methodically, they whittled the list down from
approximately
700 candidates for mispronunciation, discarding names such
as “Kahanamoku,” “Laborde,” and “Nyquist” that could
reasonably
be sounded out, but keeping trickier ones such as “Tingey,”
“Bakke,” and “Vyfhuis.” The pronouncing dictionary (which
was

featured on NPR’s All Things Considered) was
completed in August.
More… ( http://www.law.yale.edu/news/15963.htm?utm_source=YLS&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=12-3 )

Upcoming Alumni Events

Regional groups across the U.S. have a variety of upcoming
events planned for area alums. From Chicago to Boston to
New York City to Washington, DC, to Los Angeles, Portland,
and San Francisco, alumni gather regularly for theater
events,
dinner talks by local area alums, happy hours, faculty
talks,
and athletic events.

Upcoming alumni events include:

• The YLSA of Washington, DC, will hold a session on
Friday, October 26, at WilmerHale on Yale Law Women’s new
study on gender dynamics at the Law School.

• The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate
Law invites alumni to the
Sullivan
& Cromwell Conference on Challenges in Global Financial
Services, which will be held at the Law School on Friday,
November 2.

Please visit the
YLS
Alumni Events web page frequently for full details on
upcoming events.

News from Student Organizations

Many of the student organizations at the Law School have
their own web pages with information about recent and
upcoming
events. A list of these student organizations and links
to their pages can be found
online ( http://www.law.yale.edu/studentorgs?utm_source=YLS&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=12-3 ).

Yale Law Journal Reception to be Held During
Alumni Weekend
The Yale Law Journal is pleased to announce
a reception for alumni on Saturday, October 20, from 3-4:15
pm, during the Yale Law School Alumni Weekend. The
reception
will be held in the YLJ offices on the fourth floor of the
Sterling Law Building.

YLJ would also like to invite
alumni to sign up for its

biannual alumni newsletter and its

monthly publicity newsletter. Please direct any questions
to [email-masked] (
mailto:[email-masked] ).

BLSA Alumni Dinner
This spring the
Yale Black Law Students Association will host its fifth
Alumni Dinner. The Alumni Dinner will honor a distinguished
alumnus with the Jane M. Bolin '31 Service Award, in memory
of YLS graduate Jane Matilda Bolin. Alumni will have the
opportunity to reconnect with their classmates and meet
current BLSA students. Details of the event will be
available
on the
YBLSA
website, and alumni interested in attending should email

Jeannette Figg.

LLSA Alumni Dinner
This spring,
Yale
Law School's Latina/o Law Students’ Association (LLSA)
will host its Eighth Annual Public Service Award Dinner.
The dinner is a prestigious ceremony initiated by LLSA in
order to recognize and celebrate a Latina/o alumnus for
his or her distinguished record of leadership and public
service. The dinner brings together current students,
faculty,
alumni, and administrators to reconnect and share news of
LLSA’s activities and accomplishments. Please contact
LLSA's
co-chairs,

Andrea Nill Sanchez and

Roberto Saldana, if you are interested in attending
the dinner.

YLBS Conference
The Yale Law and
Business Society is organizing Yale's inaugural law and
business conference, to be held on February 15, 2013. The
conference will focus on contemporary issues in business
ethics—from financial regulation to natural resource
industries—and
will feature a mixture of panel discussions and keynote
lectures. Confirmed speakers include: SEC Commissioner Troy
Paredes, UC Berkeley Professor Neil Fligstein, and Paul
Brest, President of the Hewlett Foundation. Please contact

Bob Borek for further details about the conference.

Rebellious Lawyering Conference
RebLaw
invites alumni to the Nineteenth Annual Rebellious
Lawyering
Conference, which will take place at Yale Law School on
February 22-23, 2013. The RebLaw Conference is the nation's
largest student-run public interest conference, and brings
together practitioners, law students, and community
advocates
from around the country each year to discuss innovative,
progressive approaches to law and social change. This
year's
keynote speaker will be Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director
of Equal Justice Initiative, who has won national acclaim
for his work challenging bias against the poor and people
of color in the criminal justice system. Conference
information
and registration will be available
online ( http://www.yale.edu/reblaw/ ) soon. For
additional information, please contact the RebLaw Directors
at

[email-masked].

Yale Environmental Law Association Conference

The Yale Environmental Law Association invites alumni to
the third annual New Directions in Environmental Law
Conference,
taking place March 2, 2013, at Yale Law School. This year's
conference will focus on systems thinking and
interconnectivity,
probing legal responses to the challenges of scarcity and
excess that unite today’s changing world. Potential
discussion
topics include food sustainability and access,
international
governance, smart growth and land use, corporate
accountability,
environmental justice, human rights and the environment,
and environmental courts. For additional information,
please
contact conference chair

Casey Arnold.

Also of Note

Ph.D. Program Slated to Begin in Fall 2013; Applications
Due December 15
Yale Law School's new Ph.D.
Program is now

accepting applications for the 2013 academic year. Those
interested in learning more about the program are invited
to review the

Ph.D. Web pages, read about

what differentiates the Yale Ph.D. from other post-graduate
programs, and contact
Gordon Silverstein ( mailto:[email-masked] ),
Assistant Dean for the Graduate Programs, with any
questions.
Please note that applications for the fall of 2013 are due
by December 15, 2012.

YLS Fellowship Opportunities
Yale
Law School offers a number of post-graduate fellowships
for alumni interested in pursuing careers in academia or
in public interest law, in the United States and abroad.
Some fellowships provide time for research and writing;
others allow graduates to work in public interest positions
with NGOs, international courts and tribunals, government
agencies, and legal services organizations. Application
deadlines vary; some are as early as November 12. More
information
and application materials are available on the YLS

Post-Graduate Fellowships page.

Jobs at YLS
There are a number of
fellowship and job opportunities available at YLS. The Law
School is currently looking for an Associate Dean for
Finance
and Administration and an Associate Dean for Development.
Please check the

YLS Employment & Fellowship Opportunities page and the

Job Posting Resources page for more information.

An E-book and an Oral History — Two Firsts for
the Lillian Goldman Law Library
The Lillian
Goldman Law Library recently published its first e-book:
Before Roe v. Wade by YLS Lecturer Linda Greenhouse
and Professor Reva Siegel. It can be downloaded for
free from the
library's
website.
The Library has also recently published
the first volume in the Yale Law School Oral History
Series.
A Conversation with Abraham S. Goldstein (by Bonnie
Collier) will soon be available as a free download from
the library's website. Additional oral histories featuring
former YLS Deans Lou Pollak and Harry Wellington will soon
be released. These also will be published in both
print and e-book formats.

YLS Student Journals Now Available For Purchase
Online
Many of Yale Law School’s student journals
are now available for purchase online. Subscriptions and
back issue purchases are now available at
http://yalelawschool.myshopify.com/ ( http://yalelawschool.myshopify.com/ ).
Titles currently available are:

Yale Journal of International Law,

Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal,

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics,

Yale Journal of Law and Feminism,

Yale Journal of Law and Humanities,

Yale Law and Policy Review and, coming soon, Yale Journal
on Regulation. To subscribe to any of these titles, renew
your subscription, or purchase individual issues, please
visit our online catalog. Orders placed online are
processed
the same day. Orders are also still accepted by mail for
all Journals at the following address: Yale Law School
Student
Journals, c/o Joseph Lynch, P.O. Box 208215, New Haven,
CT 06520-8215

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