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Heather Gerken on her book, "The Democracy Index: Why our Election System is Failing and How to Fix It."
09 April 09 08:48 AM | tyson | (Comments Off)   
April 2, 2009 Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law Heather Gerken discusses her new book The Democracy Index: Why our Election System is Failing and How to Fix It , in which she proposes a ranking system that would rate the performance of Read More...
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“Re-Envisioning the Civil Rights Movement: Courts, Communities, and Legal Liberalism,” the James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School
25 November 08 08:12 AM | tyson | (Comments Off)   
November 3, 2008 Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Professor of Law and History, University of Virginia Virginia law and history professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin ’97 discusses what the civil rights movement might have looked like if legal historians had been able to construct Read More...
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The Connecticut Supreme Court at Yale Law School
30 September 08 04:09 PM | tyson | (Comments Off)   
September 12, 2008 Retired chief justice Ellen Ash Peters ’54 Ellen Ash Peters '54 welcomes attendees and discusses the history of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Read More...
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"First Things First: The First Amendment, the Media Industry, and Democracy"
01 May 07 01:14 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
April 26, 2007 Joel Hyatt ’76, CEO, Current Media Joel Hyatt, co-founder with Al Gore, of Current TV, discusses the First Amendment, and its affect on the delivery of legal services and new media. Read More...
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