School Notes: Yale Law School
March/April 2014

Professor honored for legal writing

John Langbein, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History, was selected as a 2013 Honoree for Exemplary Writing by the Green Bag, a quarterly journal dedicated to good writing about the law. Professor Langbein was honored for his article “The Disappearance of Civil Trial in the United States” (122 Yale Law Journal 522). He has twice before been similarly honored by the Green Bag—once in 2005 for his article “Questioning the Trust Law Duty of Loyalty” (also first published in the Yale Law Journal), and again in 2010 for his book, History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (Wolters Kluwer, 2009), written with Renee L. Lerner and Bruce P. Smith. Professor Langbein’s winning article, along with the writings by the other honorees, will be republished in the Green Bag’s 2014 Almanac & Reader. 

Seven awarded Skadden fellowships

A record-setting number of Yale Law students and recent graduates have been selected as recipients of the 2014 Skadden Public Interest Fellowships. Seven of the 28 recipients this year—which include graduating law students and judicial clerks from around the country—are connected to Yale Law School and will be devoting the next two years of their professional careers to public interest work. This year’s selection by the Skadden Foundation represents the highest number of fellowships awarded to YLS students and graduates in one year since it began in 1989, and includes more fellows from Yale Law School than from any other law school in the country. The 2014 fellowships will take place in 11 states and the District of Columbia, with recipients working on a variety of issues, from early education to poverty to immigration.