School Notes: Yale Law School
July/August 2012

Two appointed as named professors

Two professors at the Law School, Scott Shapiro ’90JD and Tom Tyler, have been appointed to named professorships. Shapiro, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law, is also a professor of philosophy at the Law School. He specializes in jurisprudence, international law, constitutional law and theory, criminal law, family law, philosophy of action, and the theory of authority. Tyler, also a professor of psychology at the Law School and a professor (by courtesy) at the School of Management, was named the inaugural Macklin Fleming Professor of Law. His research explores the role of justice in shaping people’s relationships with groups, organizations, communities, and societies.

Justice presides at moot court finals

Retired US Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens presided at the Thurman Arnold Prize finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals on April 24. Justice Stevens was joined by the Honorable Judge Diane Wood of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Honorable Judge Brett Kavanaugh ’87, ’90JD, of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in hearing the case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. At issue was whether the university’s use of race in undergraduate admissions violates the equal protection clause. Later that day, Justice Stevens was the guest of the Yale Law & Policy Reviewfor a conversation with Yale Law School lecturer and Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence Linda Greenhouse ’78MSL, who spent many years covering the Supreme Court for the New York Times.

Health law expert joins faculty

Abbe Gluck ’96, ’00JD, has joined the YLS faculty as an associate professor of law. An expert in civil procedure, legislation, federalism, and health law, she was previously an associate professor of law and the Milton Handler Fellow at Columbia Law School. She has extensive experience working as a lawyer in federal, state, and local government, serving in the administration of New Jersey governor Jon Corzine and that of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. In January 2012, she was co–lead counsel on a US Supreme Court amicus brief filed on behalf of 104 health law professors in support of the health reform legislation.