Fellowships offer summer work in public interest law
A grant from the Ford Foundation will offer 25 Yale Law students an unprecedented opportunity to work in the field of public interest law next summer. The inaugural Ford Foundation Law School Public Interest Fellowship Program is open to first- and second-year law students from Yale as well as from Harvard, Stanford, and New York University law schools. It will offer the students ten-week placements with Ford Foundation grantee organizations around the world on important social justice issues. The foundation has made an initial commitment of up to $1.75 million for the fellowships for the first year.
Veterans appeals court hears oral arguments at YLS
The US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) was at Yale Law School on October 2 to hear oral argument in the case Copeland v. Shinseki. At issue was whether the CAVC, an Article I Court, has the jurisdiction, and if so the power, to invalidate a statute as unconstitutional. The case involved an appeal by Constance Copeland, surviving spouse of Air Force veteran Donnie Copeland, seeking review of a Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision that denied her claim for accrued benefits and her claim for dependency and indemnity compensation for the cause of her husband’s death.
Professor honored by British Academy
Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History John Langbein has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Langbein has been a member of the Yale law faculty since 1989 and is a leading authority on legal history, comparative law, and probate and trust law. The British Academy is the United Kingdom’s national body recognizing and supporting excellence in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, in addition to electing several dozen UK-based Fellows who have achieved distinction in the humanities and social sciences, the academy elects a number of Corresponding Fellows from overseas universities. Langbein was one of 15 Corresponding Fellows elected this year.
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