School Notes: Yale Law School
July/August 2013

Professors elected to the Academy

Christine Jolls, Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization, and Dan M. Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, have been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Professor Jolls, whose research and teaching are in the areas of employment law, behavioral law and economics, government administration, consumer protection, and privacy law, graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School and earned a PhD in economics from MIT. Professor Kahan’s areas of research and teaching focus on risk perception, criminal law, and evidence. Kahan graduated from Middlebury College and Harvard Law School. The AAAS includes leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts.

Women lawyers to honor professor

Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law, will be honored in July with the Arabella Babb Mansfield Award, the highest tribute from the National Association of Women Lawyers. The award is presented annually to a woman attorney whose career embodies qualities of professional achievement, positive influence, and valuable contribution to the advancement of women’s interests in and under the law.

Professor Resnik is a founding cochair of the Women Faculty Forum at Yale and the current chair of Yale’s Global Constitutional Seminar, part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights. She was the founding director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, which provides one-year fellowships to work in public-interest jobs around the United States. 

Law library receives three awards

The Lillian Goldman Law Library recently received three awards from the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL): the Innovations in Technology Award for eYLS, one of the largest open-access repositories of legal scholarship in the world, with nearly 5,000 articles; the Law Library Publications Award for the library’s Emergency Flip Guide, created to assist staff members in responding to emergency situations; and the 2013 Emerging Leader Award, given to Jason Eiseman, head of technology service, for his contributions to his profession and for demonstrating the potential for leadership and continuing services. The awards will be presented during the opening reception of the AALL annual meeting in Seattle in July.