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Yale Information Society Project Ten Successful Years and Going Strong

The Information Society Project Among its many stellar accomplish- “Here, they can engage in supervised aca- at Yale Law School celebrates ments over the past decade, the ISP has: demic research and writing, co-author pub- its tenth anniversary this year, lished works with faculty and fellows, and a decade marked by rapid produced academic scholars, activists, present their work at conferences.” growth, innovation, and out- lawyers, and entrepreneurs who are In addition, said DeNardis, students can standing accomplishments. addressing leading issues in law and take part in reading groups, an Access to technology around the globe. Knowledge practicum, a Harvard-Yale-MIT contributed to the development of the Cyberscholar working group, and a weekly It was 1997 when Jack Balkin, Knight Access to Knowledge (A2K) movement, speaker series featuring prominent schol- Professor of Constitutional Law and the which aims to build an intellectual ars and practitioners. First Amendment, founded the ISP, a venue framework that will protect access to “Overall, the Information Society in which young scholars and activists knowledge both as the basis for sustain- Project provides the Law School with a could explore the impact of the Internet able human development and to safe- strong law and technology presence,” and new information technologies on guard human rights. With a grant from added DeNardis, “and it enhances Yale’s law and society. Since then, the ISP has the MacArthur Foundation, the ISP is global reputation through its Access to grown into one of the world’s leading intellectual centers, where ISP faculty, “(ISP) ... quickly found its voice, its audience, and its theme: the right of postdoctoral fellows, and law students access to knowledge as a keystone entitlement in an information age.” engage in activities that promote global access to knowledge and support democratic values online. piloting a series of studies to measure Knowledge activism and advocacy for civil “I started the ISP to create a community the status and challenges to access to liberties online.” at Yale for people interested in every aspect knowledge in various regions of the To commemorate its tenth anniversary, of law and technology,” said Balkin. world. the ISP will host its third annual Access to “Dozens of brilliant students and scholars produced white papers, law journal arti- Knowledge conference (A2K3) in Geneva, have become part of the ISP family, work- cles, and edited volumes such as Switzerland, September 8–10. The confer- ing on everything from biotechnology Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked ence will bring together hundreds of deci- to cyberdemocracy. We’ve ranged from the Environment and The State of Play: sion-makers and experts on global knowl- politics of virtual worlds to the politics of Laws, Games, and Virtual Worlds. edge to discuss the urgent need for policy global intellectual property and the gap hosted numerous interdisciplinary con- reforms. At the conference, the ISP plans to between rich and poor countries.” ferences addressing cutting-edge law launch a major new research initiative “The Information Society Project was and technology topics such as Access to called A2K Global Academy. founded in the early days of the Internet,” Knowledge, Regulating Search, Other research being undertaken by the said Dean Harold Hongju Koh, “but quickly Cybercrime, Reputation Economies in center will focus on Civil Liberties Online; found its voice, its audience, and its theme: Cyberspace, the Global Flow of Digital Education; Access to Knowledge as the right of access to knowledge as a Information, and Open Standards. a Human Right; Intellectual Property keystone entitlement in an information Reform and Innovation Policy; and Law, age. The strongest measure of ISP’s “The Yale ISP provides a home for stu- Genomics, and eHealth. influence is its pervasive presence in the dents interested in technology and law,” virtual world.” said ISP Executive Director Laura DeNardis. http://www.law.yale.edu/isp

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the environment Yale Center for Environmental Law & Appointments Policy Releases 2008 Environmental Performance Index

The 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) was released January 23 at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The index mea- sures the environmental performance of various countries based on established targets. It is produced by the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy—a joint initiative of Yale Law School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies—and Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Joint Research Centre.  Tracey L. Meares was named  Thomas W. Merrill, a specialist in  Douglas Kysar, a visiting professor  Scott J. Shapiro ’90 joined the Yale  Nicholas Parrillo ’04 joins the Yale  Pulitzer Prize-winning legal reporter In this latest EPI, 149 countries were ranked on 25 indica- Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of property, environmental law, admin- at Yale Law School in 2005, will Law School faculty in July as a profes- Law School faculty this year as Linda Greenhouse ’78 m s l will return tors tracked across six categories: Environmental Health, Law in December 2007. Professor istrative law, eminent domain, and become a full-time member of the sor of law and philosophy. Shapiro Associate Professor of Law. He will to Yale Law School in January 2009 as Air Pollution, Water Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, Meares is a scholar of criminal law the U.S. Supreme Court, has joined faculty in fall 2008. Kysar comes to was a visiting professor at Yale Law teach in the fields of Administrative the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in- Productive Natural Resources, and Climate Change. policy and criminal procedure whose Yale Law School as Professor of Law. the Law School from Cornell Law School from 2002 to 2003. He comes Law and American Legal History. Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Switzerland scored highest, while the United States placed work is aimed at reducing crime. She Professor Merrill served as Sidley School and the UCLA School of Law. to Yale from the University of A member of the New York bar, Senior Fellow. In that capacity, she will 39th. has been a member of the Yale Law Austin-Robert D. McLean ’70 Visiting His scholarship focuses mainly on Michigan’s Law School and philoso- Parrillo received his J.D. in 2004 from lecture, do research, offer advice on the “The ability to benchmark performance provides an School faculty since January 2007. Professor of Law at Yale Law School in environmental law and products lia- phy department, where he held a Yale Law School, followed by a clerkship new Law and Media Program, and par- important spur to lagging performers and valuable guid- Prior to joining Yale Law School, she the fall of 2007. Prior to that, he was bility. At YLS, he will teach a section of joint appointment. Prior to Michigan, with Judge Stephen F. Williams of the ticipate in various Law School activities, ance on where to look for best practices,” said Professor taught at the University of Chicago the Charles Keller Beekman Professor Torts in addition to courses on The Shapiro taught for nine years at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. including the Supreme Court Clinic. Daniel C. Esty ’86, director of the Yale Center for School of Law for twelve years. At the of Law at Columbia University. Merrill Law of Climate Change and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law He received his M.A. in American For the past three decades, Environmental Law & Policy. “Every country has something time of her appointment, Dean Koh will teach Legislation and Property at Constitutions and the Environment. and has also taught at Trinity College Studies from Yale University in 2001 Greenhouse has covered the U.S. to learn from the 2008 EPI.” noted that “Tracey Meares has estab- YLS this year. “In a few short years, Professor in Dublin, the Central European and expects to receive his Ph.D. from Supreme Court for The New York Times lished herself as one of the most Dean Koh said, “Tom Merrill is a Doug Kysar has emerged as the most University in Budapest, and Columbia Yale in 2009 for his dissertation on The and has received numerous awards for http://epi.yale.edu insightful commentators on race, scholar-lawyer of unusual breadth exciting new voice in domestic and University. His areas of specialty Rise of Non-Profit Government in journalism, including the Pulitzer in crime, and the law.” and influence. He is that rare legal international environmental law,” include jurisprudence, criminal law, America. 1998. Her biography of Justice Harry academic who leads four fields: prop- said Dean Koh. “Unlike those who pre- constitutional law and theory, and Said Dean Koh, “We are delighted to Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun, erty and natural resources law, maturely proclaim the death of envi- family law. He will teach Criminal Law welcome back Nick Parrillo, an extraor- was published in 2005 and named a administrative law, environmental ronmentalism, Professor Kysar would and Administration at Yale this year. dinarily promising young legal histo- New York Times Book Review Notable law, and Supreme Court practice. In build from the bottom up, invoking Dean Koh said, “Yale Law School rian, who will join Bruce Ackerman, Bob Book. bringing Tom to Yale, we welcome principles of precaution and sustain- has had a distinguished tradition in Gordon, Owen Fiss, John Langbein, Dean Koh said, “We are thrilled to one of the very few legal scholars able development to promote a more legal philosophy and jurisprudence, Robert Post, Reva Siegel, Jim Whitman, welcome Linda Greenhouse back home who can both argue and win a broadly participatory process of envi- dating back to Wesley Newcomb and many others of our faculty who to Yale Law School, whose spirit of Supreme Court case and write a lead- ronmental lawmaking.” Hohfeld, the Realists, and Ronald comprise the deepest collection of legal humanity and excellence she embodies. ing law journal article analyzing the Dworkin, and continuing with the historians at any law school.” For three decades, she has been not place of that critical Supreme Court modern work of Jules Coleman, and only the nation’s most respected legal decision in the legal doctrine. Perhaps many members of our current journalist, but also the world’s teacher best of all, he is also an exemplary cit- faculty… That tradition has now been on the complex workings of the United izen, who has been the heart of every immeasurably deepened by the States Supreme Court.” law faculty on which he has sat.” arrival of Scott Shapiro, who is widely recognized as the leading young scholar in the country currently work- ing in the field of jurisprudence.” Greenhouse photograph by Jamie Rose Jamie by photograph Greenhouse 6 7 yale law report summer 2008 news in brief

awards Interest Fellowship and Fund at Yale Law School and a co-chair of The Yale Awards for Our Faculty Women Faculty Forum.

in interpreting the Constitution.  Southmayd Professor of Law “Induction into the American Akhil Reed Amar ’84 has been hon- Academy signals rare scholarly pre- ored with the 2008 William Clyde eminence,” said Yale Law School DeVane Award, the oldest and high- Dean Harold Hongju Koh. “Reva est-ranking award for excellence in Siegel’s election marks her path- scholarship and undergraduate breaking scholarly role in constitu- teaching at Yale. The award is given The China Law Center recently co-hosted a tional law, legal history, and under- annually by the Yale Chapter of Phi workshop on anti-discrimination law at Sichuan standing constitutional change as Beta Kappa to a faculty member who University Law School. driven by popular constitutionalism vidual “who has engaged in out- has been teaching at Yale for at least outside the courts.” standing scholarship in the law or in five years. Professor Amar teaches china China—focused on institutional and legal and Professor of American Studies at Yale government.” She is the fifth woman constitutional law at both Yale China Law Center solutions for anti-corruption reform, draw- University. China Law Center Director and  Nicholas deB. Katzenbach  Arthur Liman Professor of Law so honored and the seventh recipient College and Yale Law School. Co-Hosts Workshops ing on China’s recent experience and Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Professor ​of Law Reva Siegel ’86 has Judith Resnik was the 2008 recipient from Yale Law School. In presenting the award to efforts in the United States, Hong Kong, Law Paul Gewirtz ’70 led the delegation. been elected to the American of The Fellows of the American Bar “Judith Resnik has had a profound Professor Amar, Jessica Bialecki, trea- The China Law Center co-hosted work- Singapore, and Taiwan. Among the issues Participants discussed the current state Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of Foundation Outstanding Scholar impact on the rule of law and admin- surer of the chapter, said, “Professor shops on anti-corruption law and anti-dis- discussed were transparency, the need for of discrimination law in China, explored the nation’s oldest and most presti- Award, presented annually to an indi- istration of justice in our country,” Amar has risen to celebrity status crimination law this past January. The anti- institutional independence, administrative insights from the U.S. experience, and gious honorary societies and inde- said Dean Koh. “Her perceptive and among undergrads here at Yale, and corruption conference—“Constructing and regulatory reforms, the role of the helped suggest an agenda to continue to pendent policy research centers. powerful scholarship makes her a for good reason. His brilliance and Legal Institutions for Anti-Corruption”— media, and other reforms which might advance anti-discrimination reform. Considered leaders in their field, the most fitting successor to the past mastery of constitutional law alone was in cooperation with Peking help check or prevent corruption. 190 new Fellows were chosen from recipients from our School.” are staggering, but what really University’s Administrative and On the heels of the anti-corruption con- www.yale.edu/chinalaw the sciences, the arts and humanities, Resnik teaches about federalism, makes Professor Amar stand out Constitutional Law Research Center. ference, the Center co-hosted a workshop business, public affairs, and the non- procedure, constitutional relation- from the crowd of outstanding pro- Susan Rose-Ackerman, the Henry R. Luce on anti-discrimination law at Sichuan profit sector. ships among branches of the U.S. fessors here at Yale is his genuine Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law University Law School. The conference Siegel’s scholarship draws on legal government, large-scale litigation, commitment to undergraduate edu- School, led a delegation of U.S. experts, brought together more than fifty leading history to explore questions of law feminism, and local and global inter­ cation. His enthusiasm is palpable clarification which also included Nancy Boswell, presi- Chinese experts and officials representing and inequality, and to analyze how ventions to diminish inequalities and each time he takes the stage of the dent of Transparency International-USA; key government ministries in what was In the Winter 2008 issue of the courts interact with representative subordination. She is founding direc- Law School lecture hall, and his pas- Peter Clark, a former senior Department of the largest workshop ever held on issues of Yale Law Report, the story “One Law government and popular movements tor of the Arthur Liman Public sion is contagious.” Justice lawyer and partner of Cadwalader, anti-discrimination law in China. Clinic, Two Cities” stated that the Wickersham & Taft; Professor Alasdair The delegation of foreign experts Elm City Resident Card program was Roberts of Syracuse University; Professor included Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of one of six ideas proposed by a YLS clinic. Though Law School students Melanie Manion of the University of Constitutional Law and the First new initiatives Wisconsin-Madison; and China Law Center Amendment at Yale Law School; Stuart drafted a report that proposed the acclaimed author Michael Pollan, who led Deputy Director Jeffrey Prescott ’97. Ishimaru, Commissioner of the U.S. Equal ID card program, the idea for the Law and Health Initiative a conversation titled “Reaping What We During the two days of discussion, par- Employment Opportunity Commission; program originated with a sugges- Examines Food and Health Sow: How Federal Food and Farm Policy ticipants—including top scholars, policy- and Reva Siegel ’86, Deputy Dean and the tion by Fair Haven resident Antonio Policies Underwrites the Obesity Epidemic”; makers, judges and prosecutors from Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law Armas during a community meet- Stephen Lewis, former U.N. special envoy ing. Newly introduced to the Law School is for HIV/AIDS in Africa, who discussed “AIDS, Additionally, the Law Report the Law and Health Initiative, which brings Conflict, the United Nations and the Law”; would like to clarify that it was the together students and faculty with practi- and Dr. John Tedstrom, executive director This winter, the China Law Center Community Lawyering Clinic that tioners and policy makers at the intersec- of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/ moved to a new address just a helped research the idea for the tion of law, policy, and health. Drawing on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, who couple of blocks from the Law municipal ID program and the experts from a variety of disciplines, it addressed “The Business of Public Health: School, at 254 Elm Street. The Community Development Financial seeks to encourage innovative thinking How U.S. Health Policy Abroad Can Help Center’s new facilities include Institutions Clinic that represented and cutting-edge scholarship about the Promote Economic Development & Save increased office space and a confer­ the city in preparing and presenting most pressing issues of national and More Lives in the Process.” ence room. a grant proposal that helped fund global health. the first year of the ID card program. Among the experts the Initiative www.law.yale.edu/ brought to the Law School this spring were lawandhealth Author Michael Pollan China Law Center office photograph by Harold Shapiro; Pollan photograph by Ken Light Ken by photograph Pollan Shapiro; Harold by photograph office Center Law China 8 9 yale law report summer 2008 news in brief

“Computers, Freedom and Privacy” confer- international law ence in May. “The direction of our technol- YLS Students Assist the ogy policy is critically important as it impacts the choices we make about our Extraordinary Courts in the national defense, civil liberties during war- Chambers of Cambodia time, and many other areas of policy being discussed on the campaign trail,” said In fall 2006, Dawn Yamane Hewett ’08 Conference Chair and ISP Senior Fellow met with Judge Motoo Noguchi of the Eddan Katz. Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Other notable conferences this spring Cambodia (ECCC), and an extraordinary Law and Media panelists Eric Lieberman and included the 14th Annual Rebellious Jeff Leen project was born. The United Nations and Lawyering Conference; the Yale Journal of the Cambodian government established International Law Young Scholars Participating on the panel were Brian the ECCC as a “hybrid” domestic-interna- Conference; the Yale Human Rights & Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent for tional court in 2003. Its objective is to try Development Law Journal’s inaugural sym- ABC News; John Zucker, Senior Vice the top-level leaders of the Khmer Rouge (From above left) ECCC Project Director Dawn Yamane Hewett ’08, with a survivor of the Khmer posium, “Corporate Social Responsibility in President of Law & Regulation for ABC regime who were thought to be responsi- Rouge regime, at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum; skulls of the victims of the “Killing Fields” on display the Extractive Industries”; and a Works-in- News; Jeff Leen, Investigations Editor at ble for the deaths of a quarter of at Cheung-Ek Department of Homeland Security Progress Symposium sponsored by the The Washington Post; and Eric Lieberman, Cambodia’s population from 1975–79. Secretary Michael Chertoff Graduate Programs at Yale Law School Vice President and General Counsel at The Hewett and Noguchi identified a need at titled “Next Generation Legal Scholarship.” Washington Post. They discussed the the underfunded and understaffed ECCC: confidential, the research has involved cut- make even a small contribution to the colloquia importance of confidential sources and solid and insightful research into cutting- ting-edge issues of international law, such trailblazing efforts of the Khmer Rouge Michael Chertoff Among www.law.yale.edu/podcasts adequate documentation when working edge international law issues that the as jurisdiction, immunity, victims’ partici- Tribunals. The ECCC Project, in combining on controversial stories, and the tension court would be likely to confront. Yale Law pation, reparations, and compliance with collaborative discussion and challenging, Speakers At Spring panel that sometimes arises between attorneys students were perfect for the job. international human rights standards. practical clinical research, represents the Conferences and reporters. “Knowing the lawyers are In spring 2007, the Yale Legal Project Students also meet weekly to discuss best of what I hoped to find at Yale.” Law and Media Program there forces us to marshal our evidence,” Assisting the Extraordinary Courts in the issues of human rights, international crimi- In spring 2008, the ECCC Project was The first annual Heyman Federal Hosts “Covering Scandals” said Leen. Chambers of Cambodia, colloquially nal law, transitional justice, and nominated as one of three student organi- Public Service Colloquium held April 7 wel- The Yale Law School Law and Media referred to as the ECCC Project, officially Cambodian history. As a combination zations that had provided “exceptional comed Department of Homeland Security The Yale Law School Law and Media Program is supported by a $2.5 million got its start with Clinical Professor Jim Silk Lowenstein Project and student-run read- public service” for the 2007–2008 school Secretary Michael Chertoff as its keynote Program held its inaugural event on grant from the John S. and James L. Knight ’89 as its faculty adviser. Students in the ing group, students receive two ungraded year. speaker. The Colloquium, co-sponsored by April 1—a panel discussion titled “Covering Foundation. ECCC Project essentially act as non-resi- credits for their work. the Career Development Office and the Scandals: Investigative Reporters, Their dent law clerks, conducting legal research Students have been enthusiastic about www.law.yale.edu/ Dean’s Office, highlighted the Heyman Lawyers, and the Process of Breaking www.law.yale.edu/ and writing bench memoranda for the the Project. Spring 2008 ECCC Project intellectuallife/ecccproject.htm. Federal Public Service Fellowship Program Controversial News.” lawandmedia Supreme Court Chamber of the ECCC. member Benjamin Taibleson ’10 notes, “I at Yale Law School, which enables gradu- Although the specific memo topics are marvel that I’ve had the opportunity to ates to explore careers in public service by working closely with high-level U.S. gov- ernment leaders for a year. Secretary Chertoff, who served as a mentor to Going Green 2007–2008 Heyman Fellow Andrew DeFilippis ’06, spoke on “Confronting the Hillhouse Professor of Environ­ Threats to Our Homeland.” mental Law and Policy Dan Esty ’86 Also taking place in April was the Robert (right) chats with Arnold Schwarzenegger L. Bernstein International Human Rights after the California governor’s keynote Fellowship Symposium, which brought speech at Yale’s 2008 Conference of together advocates, journalists, and schol- Governors. U.S. governors, Canadian ars to explore questions of time and justice premiers, and top environmental officials with regard to those accused of mass met at the University in April to discuss atrocities. government cooperation on strategies to In March, the 11th Annual Arthur Liman combat global warming. Yale President Speakers for a Liman Colloquium panel on the role and networks of state courts included, from left, Richard C. Levin and Connecticut Public Interest Law Colloquium focused on Moderator Sia Sanneh ’07, Liman Fellow, Legal Action Center, New York; Janet C. Hall, U.S. District Governor M. Jodi Rell look on. “Liman at the Local Level: Public Interest Judge, District of Connecticut, Chair of the Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction of the Judicial Advocacy and American Federalism.” Conference of the United States; Randall T. Shepard ’72, Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court; Ellen Among its many activities, the Ash Peters ’54, former Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court; Margaret H. Marshall ’76, Chief Chertoff photograph by William K. Sacco, Yale University Media Services; Law and Media photograph by by photograph Media and Law Services; Media University Yale Sacco, K. William by photograph Chertoff Information Society Project hosted a Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Shapiro Harold by photograph Liman Services; Media University Yale Staggers, Bernie Marsland Michael by photograph Esty 10 11 yale law report summer 2008 news in brief

voices “The idea is to match clinical and aca- online demic faculty who work on similar issues Balkinization I was motivated by a strong interest and have them engage in a discussion in this GOP primary, since I felt this about the ways in which they interact with Turns Five On the could be a pivotal time for our party the topic, why or to what end, and how Balkinization, a legal blog founded Campaign Trail and the race was wide open. Gov. their individual perspectives compare or and maintained by Knight Professor of Mike Huckabee’s message especially differ,” explained Carrie Pagnucco ’09, one Constitutional Law and the First YLS Students Speak About the resonated with me, and as a fellow of the organizers of the series. Amendment Jack Balkin, celebrated its fifth Campaigns They’ve Supported southerner, I appreciated his Clinical Professor of Law Michael anniversary in January. Unlike other blogs The YLR recently asked students courteous but straightforward­ style Wishnie ’93 and Simeon E. Baldwin that provide entertaining commentary and who have worked on 2008 presiden- and his casual, offhand humor. Professor of Law Peter Schuck kicked off gossip, Balkinization offers academic views tial campaigns about what moti- the discussion series this past winter with about law and politics at a fairly high level Jared Morris ’08 vated them to hit the campaign trail, a well-attended talk about immigration. of discourse. It began as a solo effort by Huckabee Campaign John Bolton ’74 what most surprised them about In March, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Professor Balkin and soon became a group working on a presidential campaign, Property and Urban Law Robert C. Ellickson blog “with a group of writers,” said Balkin, and what they will most remember student activities ’66 and Clinical Professor of Law Robert “second to none in the legal blogosphere.” from their time on the trail. Bolton ’74 on Nuclear Solomon discussed Since it went online in 2003, the site has I was surprised at how unglamor- Non-proliferation affordable housing enjoyed tremendous success, racking up ous most of the work was—as a policy as part of the more than 3 million visitors and 4.5 million law clerk working for the General John Bolton ’74, U.S. Ambassador to the discussion series. A page views. Counsel’s office, I was responsible United Nations from August 2005 until room packed with I was drawn to Senator Obama’s for helping to get Gov. Romney’s December 2006, spoke to the Law School approximately sev- http://balkin.blogspot.com biography, integrity, message, and name on the ballot in all 50 states, community on February 14 about nuclear enty students and his deliberate, solutions-oriented as well as to research the laws non-proliferation and international coop- several faculty mem- approach. I think he gives us the regarding delegate allocation and eration. Calling non-proliferation “one of bers listened as greatest chance to get innovative, election day polling place rules the greatest challenges facing the western Ellickson and Yale JREG progressive policy not just debated, from every state. Although some of world today,” he said the nuclear threats Robert C. Ellickson ’66 Solomon discussed Celebrates 25 Years but enacted… [I was most surprised this research was tedious… I learned posed by Iran and North Korea are “real” property law and pov- by] the extent to which very little to love doing it, since it was essen- and insisted that the U.S. is the only coun- erty law. The Yale Journal on Regulation from my background prepared me tial for the success of a campaign try that can defuse such threats. “Good intentions celebrated its 25th anniversary at for field work. Being on a campaign and a candidate that I really “International organizations cannot be are not enough,” was a reception and dinner in April. The is its own genre of work. It was believed in. relied upon to detect and deal with nuclear Professor Ellickson’s celebration reunited the Journal’s great to get that experience. Jed Brinton ’08 weapons programs,” he said. Bolton is a main thesis for the founders and former editors with cur­ Adam Goldfarb ’08 John Edwards… reignited my pas- Romney Campaign senior fellow at The American Enterprise discussion. “If you’re rent students and faculty. A reception Obama Campaign sion about politics back in 2004 Institute and author of Surrender Is Not an involved in this kind at the Law School featured speeches because he was the only candidate Option, an account of his time at the U.N. of work you really by Professor Jonathan Macey ’82 and in my lifetime other than Jesse The Yale Law Federalist Society, an organi- need to know what former SEC chairman Harvey Pitt, who Jackson to make ending poverty a zation of conservative and libertarian law you’re doing… you addressed the role of scholarship in [I was motivated by] a combination Robert Solomon centerpiece of his campaign... I students, sponsored his talk. really need to use shaping regulation. Over dinner at the of admiration and respect for knew that because of Senator your head,” he began, Quinnipiack Club, JREG founder Mark Senator Clinton and an unhealthy Edwards’ focus on economic jus- stressing how complicated the issue of Goldberg ’82 and JREG’s first Managing addiction to politics. I came to law http://yalefedsoc.org tice, I’d be proud to have been a affordable housing can be. Editor, Bruce Judson ’84, spoke of the school after two years on the Kerry part of his campaign whether we During the hour-long lunch discussion, Journal’s first days at Yale Law School campaign and I just couldn’t stay discussions won or lost. [Also], one of the chal- the professors spoke about local housing and expressed their delight at the con­ away this time. lenges of law school, even at an Conversations trends and the effectiveness of Section 8, tinuing dedication, energy, and enthusi­ The biggest surprise was proba- institution like YLS that places such using several examples from New Haven asm of the six hundred Yale Law School bly how much things have evolved Across the Courtyard a premium on community, can be and the region to clarify their points. students who, over the last quarter cen­ even in four years, particularly with retaining your sense of perspective. The LSO Student Board has begun host- “The nature of housing is a remarkably tury, have helped make JREG an impor­ respect to the Internet, in its fund- Working on the campaign gave me ing a series of lunchtime talks called relative concept,” Professor Solomon said. tant forum for scholarship and dialogue raising, organizing, and reporting a chance to reconnect with the “Conversations Across the Courtyard.” “It measures us as a society as far as how on pressing regulatory issues. capacities. We are just scratching social justice-related reasons I The discussion series—which brings we set the bottom. It’s going to be a long The Journal will publish the speeches the surface with respect to technol- came here for in the first place. together academic and clinical faculty— time before we have housing as a right— given at its anniversary celebration in ogy and campaigns. Monica Bell ’08 is designed to expose students to various but we can raise the bottom.” the Summer Issue of Volume 25. Addisu Demissie ’08 Edwards Campaign legal issues from both clinical and aca- Clinton Campaign demic perspectives. www.law.yale.edu/lso www.law.yale.edu/jreg Student photographs by Harold Shapiro Harold by photographs Student 12 13 yale law report summer 2008 news in brief

recognition

Justice Sherman Minton ’16 llm Isra Bhatty ’10 Selected Portrait Unveiled Rhodes Scholar A portrait of Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton Yale Law School student Isra J. Bhatty ’16 ll.m. now hangs in the Law School’s Alumni Reading ’10 was one of thirty-two students nation- Room. The portrait was unveiled during a special cer­ wide to be named Rhodes Scholars this emony in April, which included remarks by (pictured from year. A graduate of the University of left) Dean Harold Hongju Koh, Nashville District Attorney Chicago, Bhatty founded a tutoring pro- Victor S. “Torry” Johnson III, Judge and Sterling Professor gram in Chicago, was an English-Urdu Emeritus of Law Guido Calabresi ’58, and Judge Abner translator of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Mivka. The portrait was commissioned as a gift to the Law led a Chicago coalition on criminal justice School by the late Victor S. Johnson ’41. reform, and has worked closely with Chicago’s inner-city Muslim Action Network. At Oxford, she plans to study evi- dence-based social intervention, with a focus on programs for people of color, Bharat Ramamurti ’07, Craig Breslow, Wally the Green Monster, Dean Koh, and Larry Lucchino ’71 immigrants, and substance abusers. with two World Series trophies.

student life Lucchino ’71, Red Sox Katyal ’95, Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at the Visiting the Law School Make Encore Appearance Georgetown University Law Center. at Law School Professor Katyal was selected for recog- nition because of his distinguished service The Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in On March 3, Philippe Kirsch [2] Q.C., Professor Susan Neiman [3] A Red Sox victory celebration wouldn’t in government, support of the public inter- Law and Finance continued this President of the International presented the Robert M. Cover be complete without a stop at Yale Law est, and numerous contributions to the semester with a talk by Cindy Criminal Court and a judge in its Lecture in Law and Religion April 28, School. So in January, Red Sox president community. He served as lead attorney in Alexander January 31 on “The Role of Appeals Division, delivered the speaking on “Achieving Moral Clarity: and CEO Larry Lucchino ’71 visited for the the landmark Supreme Court case, 1 Advisory Services in Proxy Voting.” Inaugural Judge Jon O. Newman Reflections For Grown-Up Idealists.” second time in three years to thank the YLS Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, a challenge to the Alexander is Assistant Chief Lecture on Global Justice. The lecture Professor Neiman is director of the Red Sox Nation Chapter for its support and military tribunals set up by President Bush Economist at the U.S. Securities and was titled “From Rome to The Hague: Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, to show off both the 2007 and 2004 World to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Exchange Commission. Professor Paul The Creation and Development of the an institution devoted to a democrati- Series trophies. Joining Lucchino were In a 5–3 decision, the Court ruled that the Mahoney ’84 [1] of the University of International Criminal Court.” zation of the intellectual process. former Red Sox and Yale College pitcher military commissions violated military and Virginia School of Law discussed “The Craig Breslow, team mascot Wally the international law. Public Utility Pyramids” on April 17. New York University Law Professor Professor Raghuram G. Rajan [4] Green Monster, and Bharat Ramamurti ’07. Isra Bhatty ’10 Cristina Rodriguez ’00 gave the delivered the John R. Raben/Sullivan “We are so grateful to Larry and the Red

The 2007–2008 Quinnipiac-Yale 2007–2008 James A. Thomas Lecture & Cromwell Fellow Lecture on April Sox for making a special stop on their Dispute Resolution Series continued on March 10. The lecture, titled 29. His lecture was titled “Landed 2 Connecticut tour to bring not one, but two on February 29 with a lecture by “Burden Sharing in an Age of Interests and Financial Under­ World Championship trophies to our University of Kansas Law Professor Migration,” explored how political, development in the United States.” Dining Hall,” said Dean Koh. “Until recently, Christopher Drahozal titled “Is There legal, and cultural burdens should be Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher you would have had to wait 87 years to a Flight from Arbitration?” The series distributed and shared to help Distinguished Service Professor of have a comparable experience!” concluded April 18 with a talk by manage the change produced by Finance at the University of Chicago University of Illinois Law Professor immigration. Graduate School of Business. www.law.yale.edu/news Jennifer Robbennolt on “Good Lawyers Should Be Good Professor Reinier H. Kraakman ’79 3 recognition Psychologists: Insights for delivered the Judge Ralph K. Winter To watch streaming video Interviewing and Counseling Clients.” Lecture on Corporate Law and or download podcasts of PANA Alumni Banquet Governance April 21 on “Exit, Voice, selected events, visit Honors Neal Katyal ’95 and Liability: Legal Dimensions of www.law.yale.edu/news. Organizational Structure.” Kraakman The Pacific Islander, Asian, and Native is the Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of American Students Association (PANA) Law at Harvard Law School. hosted its second annual Alumni Banquet (From left to right) Jessica Chen ’09, Patricia Moon ’09, Gabriel Rauterberg ’09, Neal Katyal ’95, 4 Minton portrait photograph by Carl Kaufman, Yale University Media Services; Media University Yale Kaufman, Carl by photograph portrait Minton World Series and Bhatty photographs by Harold Shapiro Harold by photographs Bhatty and Series World on May 2. The banquet honored Neal Dennis Hsieh ’08, Amy Kurren ’09, Baolu Lan ’09, and Stephanie Tang ’09