School Notes: Yale Law School
March/April 2013

Immigration expert joins faculty

Cristina Rodríguez ’95, ’00JD, recently joined the faculty as a professor of law. She is an expert on the effects of immigration on society and culture, as well as the legal and political strategies societies adopt to absorb immigrant populations. She joined the law faculty at NYU in 2004, taking a leave of absence in 2010 to join the US Department of Justice as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel. Her research interests include constitutional law and theory; immigration law and policy; administrative law and process; language rights and policy; and citizenship theory. After Yale she attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, receiving a master of letters degree. 

Gruber lecture in global justice

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the first chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), was at the Law School on January 28 to deliver the inaugural Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice. He spoke on “The Office of the Chief Prosecutor: The Challenges of the Inaugural Years.” Supplementing the lecture were related panel discussions on “The Rome Statute, the ICC, and the Pursuit of Justice” and “Creating War Crimes.” In addition to the annual global justice lecture, the Gruber Program supports an annual lecture on women’s rights, the annual Global Constitutionalism Seminar, and the Gruber Global Justice and Women’s Rights Fellowships.

Faculty member presents lecture

Scott Shapiro ’90JD spoke on “The Law of the World” February 25 in his inaugural lecture as the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law. Professor Shapiro came to Yale Law School in 2008 and was appointed the Southmayd Professor in 2012. His areas of interest include jurisprudence, international law, constitutional law and theory, criminal law, family law, philosophy of action, and the theory of authority. He is the author of Legality (2011) and coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (2002).