Secretary Clinton '73 Receives Award of Merit
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2 3 yale law report winter 2014 news in brief Secretary Clinton ’73 received the Award of Merit from Dean Robert C. Post ’77, and the Yale Law Women Alumnae Achievement Award (right). Dean Post, Secretary Clinton, and Yale University President Peter Salovey arrive at Woolsey Hall (below). ForMEr SECrEtAry oF StAtE Hillary rodham Clinton ’73 the 40th anniversary for both Bill and Hillary Clinton’s class addressed a packed audience of yale Law School alumni, year. faculty, students, and staff in Woolsey Hall on october 5, after In her remarks, Clinton focused on the importance of her receiving the prestigious yale Law School Association Award continued work and commitment to improving the lives of of Merit. children in America. Clinton reminisced about her time as a student at yale After working on these very causes in New Haven, Clinton Law School and the moment that sparked “a lifelong passion said, “I learned that if you want to know about the moral, eco- about children’s welfare.” nomic, and social health of a community, look at the children.” “In the four decades since she left this place, Secretary Clinton spoke specifically about the millions of children Clinton has indeed been an advocate, a practitioner, a legisla- living in poverty every day and the growing trends that show tor in the senate, an executive in the State Department, and many children have an unfair advantage from the start. Even a teacher to the nation and to the world,” said Dean robert C. in Connecticut, Clinton noted, the problems are stark. Post ’77 in his opening remarks. Many children in low-income families are also missing criti- After going through the many accomplishments of her cally important time reading with their parents, resulting in illustrious career, Clinton was awarded the Law School’s high- narrowed vocabularies that make it difficult for them to suc- est honor and welcomed to the lectern with a standing ova- ceed in school. It is a problem Clinton will be tackling through tion. She began by remembering her time at yale Law School her work at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation in and the day when she met President Clinton. partnership with Next Generation. “I remember the first time I arrived on campus in 1969,” But while Clinton acknowledged the dissolution that said Clinton. “I was driving a beat-up old car. I had a mattress many in the country feel over these societal problems and Secretary Clinton ’73 tied to my roof, and I the gridlock faced in was wearing bell bot- Washington, she said toms.” “I remember the first time I arrived on campus in 1969, that the hope and then while walking I was driving a beat-up old car. I had a mattress tied to my roof, resolve of the country Receives through the student was stronger than ever. and I was wearing bell bottoms.” lounge one day, she “yes, we have big heard a voice say, “And not challenges ahead of us,” said Award of Merit only that, we grow the big- Clinton, “but we have the abil- gest watermelons in the ity, if we match it with the will, world.” to meet every challenge we “I said, ‘who is that?’” face. It will take all of us work- Hillary remarked with a laugh. ing together. It will take not “the answer was ‘that’s Bill only leaders, but citizens who Clinton. He’s from Arkansas have to dare greatly and lead and that’s all he ever talks boldly, but that’s when we are about.’” at our best.” President Bill Clinton ’73 See page 50 for more about was also in attendance at the Alumni Weekend 2013. 2013 yale Law School Alumni www.law.yale.edu/videos Photographs by Harold Shapiro (left) and Michael Marsland (right) Marsland Michael and (left) Shapiro Harold by Photographs Weekend. the event marked 4 5 yale law report winter 2014 news in brief conferences Fellowship Initiative at yale Law School the report, which prompted a response Robert H. Bork’s Legacy and provided the funding that enabled the stu- from the United Nations and led to sub- dents and faculty on the project team to stantial press attention around the matter, Influence on Antitrust Law Examined travel to Haiti. concludes with a comprehensive set of rec- at Conference “Peacekeeping without Accountability” ommendations outlining the steps the is the result of more than a year of U.N. and other principal actors in Haiti Law ProFESSorS and econo- research into the key epidemiological and should take to meaningfully address the mists from across the country legal issues arising out of the introduction cholera epidemic. gathered in New Haven on of cholera to Haiti. the report incorporates September 27 and 28, 2013 for a consultations with victims of the epidemic, faculty conference on “the Influence of human rights advocates, attorneys, jour- robert H. Bork on Antitrust Law: A nalists, aid workers, medical doctors, and Professors Wizner, Lucht retrospective.” the conference government agency officials with first- Receive Community addressed the legacy of former hand knowledge of the epidemic. Advocate Award yale Law School Professor robert the report confirms prior accounts that H. Bork, who has been described (from left) Hon. Leo Strine, Jr., Dean Robert Post ’77, Sandra Wasserman, Roberta U.N. peacekeepers inadvertently but Wizner ProFESSorS Stephen as the “architect of modern anti- negligently brought cholera into Haiti, WIzner and Carroll Portrait of Robert Bork Romano ’80, Marla Wasserman, Debra Wasserman Glasser, Steven Rosenblum ’82 trust law.” the Federalist Society causing one of the largest epidemics in Lucht were honored by and the Kauffman Program in recent history. As the report documents, JUNtA for Progressive Law, Economics and Entrepreneurship at yale Law Inaugural Craig Wasserman ’86/ clinic in october 2010, peacekeeping troops Action, a New Haven- School sponsored the conference, which featured Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Report Holds U.N. belonging to the U.N.’s Haitian mission, based nonprofit serving more than fourteen speakers. Family members of MINUStAH, unknowingly carried cholera the Latino and immi- robert H. Bork also attended the conference as spe- Alumni Breakfast Held Responsible for into the country. Because of inadequate Lucht grant communities, cial guests. Haitian Cholera Epidemic water and sanitation facilities at the for their years of ser- THe inaugural Craig WasseRMAN ’86/ Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen MINUStAH base in the Haitian town of vice to the group. & Katz corporate law breakfast program for alumni was held in honors The UnitED NAtIoNS inadvertently Méyè, sewage from the base contaminated together, through the New York City on October 17, 2013. The event was endowed by the caused a deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti, the Artibonite river, the largest river in Jerome N. Frank Legal Professor Reva Siegel Elected law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and the Yale partners of and has legal and moral obligations to Haiti and one the country’s main water Services organization the firm in memory of their colleague, Craig Honorary Fellow of the remedy this harm, according to a report sources. By July 2011, cholera spread at yale Law School, Wasserman ’86. The breakfast programs, spon- released this summer by researchers at through the country, infecting one new Wizner and Lucht American Society for Legal History sored by the Yale Law School Center for the yale Law School and the yale School of person per minute. the epidemic contin- have provided free legal representation to Study of Corporate Law, feature panel discus- Nicholas DEB. KAtzenbach Public Health. ues, and public health experts estimate it individuals and families who otherwise sions on current topics in business law by Professor of Law reva Siegel ’86 has the 58-page report, “Peacekeeping with- will take a decade or longer to eliminate would be unable to afford an attorney. members of the bar, business and investment been elected an Honorary Fellow of the out Accountability,” provides the first com- cholera from Haiti. Prior to this outbreak, Wizner and Lucht received the Community communities, public officials, and faculty. American Society for Legal History, the prehensive analysis of the cause of the cholera had not existed in Haiti for more Advocate Award at JUNtA’s 44th The inaugural breakfast, on “Capital Markets in highest honor the Society can massive outbreak of cholera in Haiti— than a century. Anniversary gala on September 19, 2013. the 21st Century: Will the u.S. Still Be on Top?,” confer. The Society’s Honorary which has killed more than 8,000 people Wasserman consisted of a panel discussion led by the Fellowship recognizes distinguished and sickened more than 600,000 since it Honorable Leo Strine, Jr., Chancellor of the historians whose scholarship has began in 2010. the report examines the Delaware Court of Chancery, Steven A. Rosenblum ’82, of Wachtell, shaped the broad discipline of legal role the U.N. played in precipitating the Yale Law students from Lipton, and Roberta Romano ’80, Center Director and Sterling the Education Adequacy Siegel history and influenced the work of crisis and the U.N.’s responsibilities to pro- Professor of Law. Yale Law School Dean Robert Post ’77 moderated. others. vide legal remedies to victims of the epi- Project appeared in Along with Dean Post, Steve Rosenblum delivered remarks honor- Founded in 1956 to foster interdisciplinary demic. It directly contradicts recent state- Hartford Superior Court ing Craig Wasserman at the start of the program, and his wife, scholarship and teaching in the broad field of legal ments by the U.N. Secretary-General that on September 16, 2013 to Marla Wasserman, mother, Sandra Wasserman, and sister, Debra history, the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) the organization did not bring cholera to advocate for the right of Wasserman glasser, were present.