Supreme Court justice visits campus
Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor ’79JD visited Yale Law School on February 3 to deliver the James A. Thomas Lecture. The lecture took the form of a conversation between Justice Sotomayor and Linda Greenhouse ’78MSL, Knight Distinguished Journalist-in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. During the conversation, Sotomayor reflected upon her jurisprudence, drawing on the opinions she has written and the cases she has participated in since taking her seat on the nation’s high court.
Human rights in the Muslim world
Dr. Shirin Ebadi delivered the Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice on March 3, titled “Human Rights in the Muslim World.” The following day she took part in a special discussion titled “The Future of Iran,” chaired by Oona A. Hathaway ’97JD, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law. Dr. Ebadi, a 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner for her work on behalf of Iranian children, women, and political prisoners, served as president of Tehran’s city court until she was dismissed from the bench following the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Four law school graduates among Gruber fellows
A total of seven Yale graduates and current students have been selected as the 2014–2015 Peter and Patricia Gruber Fellows in Global Justice and Women’s Rights. This group will work to advance the rights of diverse populations around the globe, and their projects touch on a wide range of issues, including LGBT rights, global access to medicines, microfinance, and immigrant domestic workers’ rights. In addition to the four from Yale Law School, two fellows come from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and one fellow comes from the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
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