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  • Rachel Moran ’81JD

    A year ago, reporters were seeking out Rachel Moran ’81JD for comment about her Yale Law School contemporary Sonia Sotomayor ’79JD.... Read on
    the staff | June 11 2010 04:55pm

  • R. Owen Williams ’07MSL, ’09PhD

    In this economy, most brand-new PhDs are grateful for a job—any job. But R. Owen Williams ’07MSL, ’09PhD, isn’t most new... Read on
    the staff | April 16 2010 04:44pm

  • Craig Becker ’78, ’81JD

    “I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government.” So declared President Barack Obama... Read on
    the staff | April 2 2010 04:41pm

  • Goodwin Liu ’98JD

    Wednesday, a group of liberal law professors delivered a letter urging President Barack Obama to move more aggressively in appointing “a new... Read on
    the staff | February 26 2010 03:23pm

  • Rashad Hussain ’07JD

    Rashad Hussain ’07JD comes from a family of doctors. Now, President Barack Obama is calling on this young Indian American lawyer to help heal... Read on
    the staff | February 19 2010 03:22pm

  • Cyrus Vance Jr. ’77

    When a guy who shares a name with his famous father goes to work for a famous boss—nicknamed “The Boss”—it can be hard to get... Read on
    the staff | January 8 2010 03:12pm

  • Steve Bodow ’89

    As a New York journalist, Steve Bodow ’89 (arguably) had to work for a living. Then he landed a job writing for the The Daily Show, where... Read on
    the staff | September 25 2009 12:16pm

  • Andrew Romanoff ’89

    Back in January, Colorado governor Bill Ritter appointed Michael Bennet ’93JD to fill a US Senate seat vacated by Cabinet nominee Ken Salazar.... Read on
    the staff | September 18 2009 12:13pm

  • Van Jones ’93JD

    He was hired to promote green jobs, but Van Jones ’93JD turned out to have too many red flags for the White House. The environmental activist... Read on
    the staff | September 11 2009 12:11pm

  • Robert Morgenthau ’48LLB

    In nearly 35 years as Manhattan District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau ’48LLB has drawn hundreds of headlines, prosecuted everyone from... Read on
    the staff | September 4 2009 12:08pm

  • Dawn Johnsen ’83, ’86JD

    Nearly eight months after Barack Obama nominated her to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, Indiana University law professor... Read on
    the staff | August 28 2009 12:06pm

  • Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. ’73

    Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. ’73 has written for the New Yorker, made PBS documentaries, won a MacArthur “genius... Read on
    the staff | July 24 2009 12:22pm

  • Francis Collins ’74PhD

    Francis Collins ’74PhD came to Yale to study chemistry, drawn to the mathematical precision of molecular interactions. But at Yale he took... Read on
    the staff | July 10 2009 11:56am

  • Geoffrey Black ’72MAR

    Geoffrey Black ’72MAR has been elected leader of the United Church of Christ—but don’t call him Your Holiness. “The... Read on
    the staff | July 2 2009 11:55am

  • Dan Froomkin ’85

    Since his days at the Yale Daily News, Dan Froomkin ’85 has never been one to duck an argument. He started plenty in the past five years in... Read on
    the staff | June 26 2009 11:53am

  • J. Augustine Di Noia ’80PhD

    How often except in daydreams does someone get to make a statement like “I am happy the Pope has entrusted to me an area that he considers so... Read on
    the staff | June 19 2009 11:51am

  • Garth Harries ’95

    Running for an unprecedented ninth term, New Haven mayor John DeStefano Jr. has for months been promising radical improvements in the city’s... Read on
    the staff | June 12 2009 11:49am

  • Steven Calabresi ’80, ’83JD, David McIntosh ’80 & Lee Liberman Otis ’79

    Not all is misery on the right these days. Just ask the co-founders of the Federalist Society: they and their organization of conservative law students... Read on
    the staff | May 8 2009 11:42am

  • Lynn Nottage ’89MFA

    She pulled down a MacArthur “genius” prize two years ago, so perhaps it was just a matter of time until playwright Lynn Nottage... Read on
    the staff | April 25 2009 11:37am