School Notes: Yale Law School
January/February 2016

Conference honors professor’s work

“Administrative Law From the Inside Out: A Conference on Themes in the Work of Jerry Mashaw” took place in October, providing a venue for new papers on the aspects and problems of administrative law featured in the work of Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Jerry Mashaw. Mashaw, a member of the YLS faculty since 1976, teaches courses on administrative law, social welfare policy, regulation, legislation, and the design of public institutions. 

Initiative will bring together art and human rights

The Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights has launched Juncture, a yearlong initiative that will explore the rich intersections between art and artistic practices and international human rights that will engage artists, curators, critics, scholars, students, human rights practitioners, and other activists. It features collaborations with professional artists, a multidisciplinary graduate seminar, fellowships for five Yale School of Art MFA students, a public lecture series, online publications, and an exhibition. In the spring of 2016, the annual Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium, hosted by the Schell Center, will focus on the themes of Juncture.

Faculty notes

Drew S. Days III ’66LLB, Alfred M. Rankin Professor Emeritus of Law, has received lifetime achievement awards from the American Lawyer and the Connecticut Law Tribune, given to those with lengthy, distinguished careers, and who have made substantial contributions during their careers to law firms, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, corporations, law schools, and the judiciary, and to the practice of law in general.

Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law, has received the inaugural Public Servant Award from the Council of Korean Americans. Professor Koh is one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights.

Abbe R. Gluck ’96, ’00JD, was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in October and appointed to the Connecticut branch of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) in May. The ALI is the leading independent organization in the US producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law. The ULC is the source of hundreds of acts that secure uniformity of state law in fields including banking and commercial law, civil and criminal procedure, evidence, probate and trust, guardianship and conservatorship, and the law of business organizations.