Lecture Programs and Other Academic Opportunities

The regular curriculum at Yale Law School is augmented by a host of events that enrich legal education and scholarship. Distinguished speakers—lawyers, judges, public figures, government officials, scholars, and other prominent individuals—are invited by faculty members, student organizations, and academic programs within the School to give talks or participate in panel discussions on a wide variety of topics throughout the year. Conferences sponsored or co-sponsored by the School or by its faculty or students address issues of legal import both here and abroad. Additionally, an abundant resource of endowed funds allows the School to invite many specially designated fellows who not only give lectures but also spend time mentoring students with similar academic or professional interests.

Lecture Programs

A sampling of the endowed lecture programs from the 2006–2007 academic year follows:

The Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship, established in 1987 in memory of the senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, provides a forum for distinguished judges to speak on matters of general importance to law and society. The Right Honorable Lord Woolf of Barnes, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, gave the Anderson Memorial Lecture this year, speaking on “How to Change the Litigation Culture.”

The Fowler Harper Memorial Fund brings to Yale Law School a prominent person who has made a distinguished contribution to the public life of the nation. Lani Guinier ’74, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, gave the 2006–2007 Fowler Harper Lecture on the topic “The Political Representative as Powerful Stranger: Challenges for Democracy.”

The Kronman-Postol Lectureship supports lectures related to law and the humanities. Gerhard Casper ’62 LL.M., President Emeritus and Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education, Stanford University, delivered the inaugural lecture in 2006 entitled “Caesarism in Democratic Politics: Reflections on Max Weber.”

The Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship brings to Yale Law School individuals whose work in other disciplines illuminates the study of law and legal institutions. Dr. Harold Varmus, president and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, delivered the 2006–2007 Leff Lectures. He discussed “Freeing Scientific Culture: The Fight to Provide Public Access to Results the Public Finances” and “How the Law Affects Contemporary Cancer Research: A Personal View.”

The Robert H. Preiskel and Leon Silverman Program on the Practicing Lawyer and the Public Interest sponsors lectures and other events celebrating private lawyers’ contributions to public service. The 2006–2007 Preiskel-Silverman Lecture was delivered by Ben W. Heineman, Jr., ’71, Senior Counsel at WilmerHale, who spoke on “Law and Leadership.”

The John R. Raben Fellowship brings to the Law School a leading expert in securities law or accounting for business enterprises, who delivers a public lecture at the School. Bengt Holmstrom, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave the 2006–2007 Raben Lecture entitled “Corporate Governance in Context.”

The Storrs Lectures, one of Yale Law School’s oldest and most prestigious lecture programs, were established in 1889. These annual lectures are given by a prominent scholar within the broad topic of fundamental problems in law and jurisprudence. The 2006–2007 Storrs Lecturer was Alicia H. Munnell, Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences, Boston College Carroll School of Management. Her two-part lecture was entitled “The Declining Number of Players in the Retirement Income Game,” with part one discussing “The Withdrawal of Business” and part two, “The Implications for the Individual and Government.”

The Judge Ralph Winter Lectureship on Corporate Law and Governance was established by former law clerks and students of Judge Winter to support lectures on corporate law and governance and related topics. Daniel Fischel, Professor of Law and Business, Northwestern University School of Law, delivered the 2006–2007 Winter Lecture entitled “Markets and Scandals: Enron and Beyond.”

Other named lecture and fellowship programs at Yale Law School include:

The Timothy B. Atkeson Environmental Practitioner in Residence Program, established in honor of Timothy B. Atkeson ’52, a former assistant administrator for international affairs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Robert L. Bernstein Lecture in International Human Rights, inaugurated in 1998 by Wei Jingsheng, a political prisoner released in 1997 after almost twenty years of continuous captivity in a Chinese jail.

The Robert M. Cover Lectures in Law and Religion, established to honor the memory of Yale Law School Professor Robert Cover, which bring speakers to Yale to explore the intersection of legal and religious thought and practice.

The Ralph Gregory Elliot First Amendment Lectureship, established in 1990 to provide for lectures on some aspect of the First Amendment.

The Mechem Fellowship, made possible by a grant from Charles S. Mechem, Jr., ’55, established to foster an understanding of decision making in the business environment.

The Sherrill Lectureship, which brings distinguished visitors with special expertise in problems of international law and international relations.

The Stupski Fellowship in Education, sponsored by the Larry and Joyce Stupski Public Interest Support Fund, which invites prominent educators to offer their perspectives on their field.

The James A. Thomas Lecture Series, established by Yale Law School students in 1989 to honor James A. Thomas ’64, to recognize scholars whose work addresses the concerns of communities or groups currently marginalized within the legal academy or society at large.

Beyond the endowed lecture and fellowship programs, other invited speakers present topics of particular interest to the Law School community. Among those invited in the 2006–2007 academic year were Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who participated in a question-and-answer session with the Law School community; U.S. Senator Arlen Specter ’56, who discussed “The Senate’s Hot-Button Issues”; Mark Malloch Brown, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, who addressed the challenge of managing global change; Christopher Sallon QC, British barrister and member of the Queen’s Counsel, who talked about justice and human rights; and Theodore Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, who gave a lecture entitled “A World of Law—Then and Now.” Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker ’97 gave the keynote speech, “An Urban Mayor’s Perspective on Public Interest Advocacy,” to open the tenth annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium.

In addition, many student organizations and Law School centers sponsored lectures and conferences throughout the academic year, including The Yale Journal of International Law and the Information Society Project. Other notable conferences held this year included “Legally Female: What Does It Mean To Be Ms. JD?” sponsored by Yale Law Women; the 13th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference; and a Works-in-Progress Symposium sponsored by the Graduate Programs at Yale Law School.

During the 2006–2007 academic year, students had the opportunity to learn more about various fields within the legal profession through the Dean’s Program on the Profession Lecture Series, which offered talks with William F. Lee, co-managing partner of WilmerHale; and alumni such as Floyd Abrams ’60, partner in the law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel and William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor of First Amendment Law at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism; and Michael Solender ’89, General Counsel of The Bear Stearns Companies.

Two Yale Law School professors gave their inaugural lectures this year. John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law Amy Chua spoke on “Empire and Tolerance: The Rise and Fall of World Dominant Powers,” and Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law Jonathan R. Macey ’82 delivered a lecture entitled “Where’s the Theory in Corporate Governance?”

Other regularly scheduled talks are given around a specific academic or intellectual interest. The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights sponsors a weekly Human Rights Workshop for students, scholars, and practitioners in the field of human rights. The China Law Center organizes a weekly workshop on Chinese Legal Reform, in which U.S. and Chinese scholars present papers on Chinese legal and policy developments. The Legal Theory Workshop brings to the Law School provocative new scholarship from law and affiliated disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The Legal History Forum brings together law students, graduate students, and scholars from a variety of disciplines with an interest in history and the law. The Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop is both a forum for ongoing scholarly research in law and economics and a Law School course. In addition, students have the opportunity to learn about current Yale Law School faculty research during Faculty Teas scheduled periodically throughout the academic year.

Further information about the origins and history of all endowed fellowships and lectures at the Law School appears under Alumni, Yale Law School Fund, and Endowment Funds. Lectures and other public events are listed in the online Calendar of Events, which is updated daily during the academic year.

Special Initiatives

Yale Law School is shaped by the intellectual interests of its faculty and students. Those interests find expression not only in our established curriculum and other academic opportunities, but also in new activities that emerge from time to time.

For example, the growing importance of international perspectives has yielded several major initiatives. The Global Constitutionalism Seminar is an annual event in which Supreme Court and constitutional court judges from around the world meet with faculty members to discuss issues of common concern. To date, ten seminars have been convened. While the proceedings are largely confidential, some events are open to the Law School community.

A second initiative is designed to strengthen democratic institutions and practices in Latin America through linkage activities with two law schools in Chile, one in Argentina, and two in Brazil. Now in its fifteenth year, this program permits up to six Yale students to spend the month of June in Chile or Argentina, and four students to spend a month in Brazil, in order to work with Latin American law students in small study groups and clinics. In the spring, students from the Latin American linkage law schools visit Yale for three weeks to participate in study groups and attend classes. In addition, legal scholars from throughout Latin America, the Caribbean Basin, Spain, and the United States meet in June for the Seminario en Latino-américa de Teoría Constitucional y Política (SELA), a three-day seminar exploring the foundational ideas of constitutional democracy. SELA is co-sponsored by Yale and a number of other law schools in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Spain.

A similar initiative, the Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, is an annual meeting convened by the Law School in a Middle East or nearby venue. It was created to provide a forum in which influential scholars and opinion leaders from the legal communities of the Middle East could exchange ideas and form a productive working relationship. Every year, roughly thirty-five lawyers, judges, and academics from the region meet with Yale professors and students to discuss an agreed-upon topic of common importance. Past topics have included the concept of legal authority, the basic rights and remedies available to individuals, and the challenges of religious pluralism in the Middle East. The proceedings are structured around a series of papers that are distributed in advance. Many Law School faculty are active participants, including Owen Fiss, Alvin Klevorick, Anthony Kronman, Robert Post, George Priest, Carol Rose, Peter Schuck, Reva Siegel, and James Whitman.

The Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy

The center, established in 1994 by Yale Law School and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, draws upon resources throughout Yale University to develop and advance environmental policy locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. The center seeks to advance fresh thinking and analytically rigorous approaches to environmental decision making—across disciplines, sectors, and boundaries. The center supports a variety of research projects, including the Global Environmental Governance Project, which examines strengths and weaknesses of the international environmental regime, including the role of globalizing administrative law; the Environmental Performance Measurement Project, which aims to strengthen the foundations for policymaking by developing pollution control and natural resource management metrics and indicators; the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project, which explores the business-environment interface; and an initiative on “Information Age” environmental protection.

The center runs the Environmental Protection Clinic, where law students have opportunities to address environmental law and policy problems on behalf of client organizations. In recent years, Yale student teams have worked with a range of community groups, environmental groups, think tanks, government agencies, and international organizations.

The center also sponsors an Environmental Issues Lecture Series, which provides a forum for visiting scholars, environmental professionals, business leaders, and government officials. The director of the center is Professor Daniel C. Esty, who is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, with a joint appointment in the Law School and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

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The Yale Center for Law and Philosophy

The Yale Center for Law and Philosophy was founded in 2005 as a joint venture with the Law School and the Yale Philosophy department. It aims to encourage advanced work, including research degrees, at the interface of philosophy and law. Members of both faculties are affiliated with the center, as are a number of visitors. The center’s programs include regular workshops and conferences, attracting leading philosophers of law from around the world. The center also helps to coordinate courses across the Law School and the Philosophy department. A selection of conference papers is available on the center’s Web site at www.law.yale.edu/yclp.

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The John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy

The Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy is designed to facilitate the scholarly interests of the many distinguished law and econom-ics scholars at Yale, including Professors Ackerman, Alstott, Ayres, Brooks, Calabresi, Coleman, Donohue, Ellickson, Graetz, Hansmann, Jolls, Klevorick, Kronman, Listokin, Macey, Markovits, Mashaw, Priest, Romano, Rose, Rose-Ackerman, Schuck, Schwartz, Smith, and Winter. The center supports a broad range of scholarly work. Under the center, the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics supports John M. Olin Scholarships to students interested in law and economics, to students conducting law and economics research projects over the summer, as well as to students who wish to obtain joint degrees in law and economics; the John M. Olin Prize for the best student paper on a law and economics subject; the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, co-edited by Professor Ian Ayres; the center’s Working Paper Series; and the Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop, at which scholars from other institutions and from Yale present papers for student and faculty criticism. The center also provides an umbrella for two programs: the Program in Civil Liability, established to promote comprehensive reanalysis of the modern law of torts, products liability, professional malpractice, insurance, and other subjects related to our civil liability system; and the Program for Studies in Capitalism, which supports research on the operation of capitalism as a mechanism of economic growth; the ethical bases of capitalism; the relation between capitalism and the poor, and between capitalism and democracy. The center’s co-directors are Professors George L. Priest and Susan Rose-Ackerman.

The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law

The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law was created to promote research and teaching in the business law area. The center’s focus of study is wide-ranging, covering corporate law and the law of other nongovernmental organizations; the regulation of financial markets and intermediaries; the legal framework of finance, including the law of bankruptcy, corporate reorganization, and secured transactions; antitrust law and the law of regulated industries.

The center hosts annually the Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable, which is a one-day event that seeks to foster a dialogue between academics, regulators, and practitioners on the important corporate law issues of the day through presentations of scholarly papers and a panel discussion. In addition, the center hosts the John M. Raben Fellowship Lecture and the Judge Ralph Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance. Each brings to the Law School a distinguished scholar, jurist, or practitioner for a public lecture. The center also organizes a luncheon lecture series and symposiums on pressing issues of the day, academic conferences, and a breakfast program for alumni in New York City. In the spring term, the center sponsors the Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium on Contemporary Issues in Law and Business. The colloquium is a limited-enrollment seminar which invites distinguished law school graduates to the Law School on a weekly basis to discuss emerging practice, regulatory, and policy issues. All of the center’s activities are open to the Law School community.

Professor Roberta Romano is the director of the center. The center has a board of advisers, chaired by Robert Todd Lang ’47. Faculty members serving on the center’s executive committee are Ian Ayres, Richard Brooks, John Donohue, Henry Hansmann, Christine Jolls, Alvin Klevorick, Harold Hongju Koh, Anthony Kronman, John Langbein, Yair Listokin, Jonathan Macey, George Priest, Alan Schwartz, Henry Smith, and Mark Templeton.

For additional information on the center’s upcoming and past activities, the business law curriculum, and joint-degree programs with the School of Management, visit the center’s Web site at www.law.yale.edu/ccl.

The China Law Center

The China Law Center at Yale Law School is a unique institution dedicated to helping promote China’s legal reforms and increasing understanding of China in the United States. In interaction with research and teaching, the core of the Center’s work is designing and carrying out sustained, in-depth cooperative projects between U.S. and Chinese experts on key issues in Chinese law and policy reform. These projects involve a range of activities, including workshops and seminars in the United States and China, research visits to Yale and to China, and publications. Projects often result in input into China’s law reform process or in books or articles by Chinese or U.S. scholars. The center also works to strengthen the capacity of reformers in China through cooperative projects in both China and the U.S. Its focus is on issues critical to China’s ongoing reform process, especially judicial reform, criminal justice reform, administrative and regulatory reform, constitutional law, and public interest law.

The center involves Yale Law School students in all aspects of its work. Students have organized and attended workshops in China and at Yale, conducted research and prepared reports and other advocacy documents, worked with visiting lawyers, scholars, and advocates at Yale, and worked during the summer in a variety of Chinese institutions, including academic centers and non-governmental organizations.

Each semester, the center hosts the Workshop on Chinese Legal Reform. The Workshop provides students and faculty an opportunity to learn about the Chinese legal system through discussions of papers presented by center staff, visiting Chinese scholars, and distinguished guest speakers (both Chinese and American). The workshop has come to serve as a focal point within Yale Law School—and increasingly within Yale University as a whole—for faculty and students with an interest in China and in exploring issues related to Chinese legal reform.

More information about the center is available on its Web site, www.yale.edu/chinalaw.

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The Information Society Project

The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School was created in 1997 to study the implications of the Internet, telecommunications, and the new information technologies on law and society. Much of its work has focused on issues of freedom of speech, democracy, globalization, and the growth and spread of cultures on the Internet. In past years ISP has studied access to knowledge questions and the effects of intellectual property and new communications technologies on globalization and development, the free speech implications of filtering and rating systems, legal protections for sensitive information on the Internet, civic participation in cyberspace, the civil liberties implications of intellectual property protection, and memetics and the evolution of cultures and ideologies. ISP has held scholarly conferences on a range of subjects including access to knowledge, the Internet, and globalization; democracy in cyberspace; blogging and Internet journalism; the law of virtual worlds; and emerging issues in cybercrime and cybersecurity. The project embraces a variety of activities, including fellowships for young scholars and advice and education for policy makers, business leaders, nonprofit organizations, and the legal community. It also runs a Weblog, Lawmeme, which offers commentary on developing technology issues. The project director is Professor Jack Balkin. Additional information on ISP is available on its Web site, www.law.yale.edu/isp.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program was established in 1997 by family and friends of the late Arthur Liman ’57 to honor his commitment to public interest law.

The Liman Program funds fellowships for Law School graduates working in public interest law, provides funding for student associates in residence at the Law School, and for undergraduates working in public interest during the summer. The program also awards grants to qualifying organizations for public interest projects, and holds colloquia for attorneys, academics, and students on relevant topics in legal services.

Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellowships are awarded annually to Yale Law School graduates. The fellowships provide support to work full time for a year in an ongoing or start-up project in any area of the legal profession devoted to the public interest. During the fellowship year, Liman Fellows may spend time in residence at Yale Law School to conduct seminars based on their work. In the past, fellows have engaged in projects securing rights for workfare recipients, criminal defendants, migrant workers, the elderly, and immigrants.

Each year, law students work as associate fellows, providing substantive assistance to graduate fellows and helping to plan and participate in the annual Liman Colloquium. Topics for the colloquium series have included “The Future of Legal Services,” “Valuing Low-Wage Workers,” “Welfare ’Reform’ and Response,” “Encountering the Criminal Justice System,” “Portraying the Public Interest,” “Public Interest Lawyering in an Era of High Anxiety,” and “Organizing and Reorganizing: Public Interest in Individual and Global Contexts.”

The program also sponsors other scholarship including a public interest law reading group.

Since its establishment, the range of programs funded by the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program has reflected the breadth of interests, concerns, and commitments of Arthur Liman. While working as a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, and providing counsel to a range of corporate and individual clients, Liman also led several major institutions devoted to providing services to those who could not afford lawyers, including the Legal Aid Society of New York; the board that created the Legal Action Center; the Vera Institute for Justice; Neighborhood Legal Services of Harlem; and the Capital Defender Project of New York.

The Arthur Liman Professor of Law is Judith Resnik. The director of the Liman Program is Sarah Russell.

The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights

The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights was established at Yale Law School in 1989 in honor of Orville Schell, a distinguished New York City lawyer and partner at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, who was vice chairman of Helsinki Watch and chairman of Americas Watch from its founding in 1981 until his death in 1987.

International human rights practitioners rarely have the opportunity to consider the theoretical issues their work entails, while scholars studying human rights lack a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue. At the same time, law students are eager to apply the lessons they are learning in the classroom to further the cause of human rights. The Schell Center addresses these needs by seeking to increase knowledge and understanding of international human rights issues; equip lawyers and other professionals with the skills needed to advance the cause of international human rights; and assist human rights organizations.

The Schell Center conducts the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic every term. The center also sponsors frequent lectures, panels, symposia, and informal discussions on a wide range of human rights issues. During 2006–2007, speakers at the center’s weekly Human Rights Workshop: Current Issues and Events included a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, advocates from human rights organizations, scholars, and journalists. They spoke on such topics as “The Right to Political Participation in South Africa,” “How to Write the Historical Origins of Human Rights,” “Fairness to Rightness: Jurisdiction, Legality, and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law,” “Extraordinary Crimes at Ordinary Times: International Justice Beyond Crisis Situations,” and “Protecting Iraqi Refugees: See No Evil, Hear No Evil?”

The Schell Center also sponsored “Defending Rights Through Law in China: Progress and Challenges,” the annual Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium. Talks by human rights lawyers, a judge of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, activists, artists, former students, and scholars included “Enforcing International Law in U.S. Death Penalty Cases: From the Hague to Houston,” “Cambodia Khmer Rouge Trials: Ownership of Justice,” “Timap [Stand up] for Justice Sierra Leone: Developing a Model for Advancing Justice in Post-Conflict West Africa,” “Conflict and Justice in Burundi and Rwanda,” “China’s Growing Global Role: Looking at the PRC’s Engagement with Africa,” “On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights: Dark Spaces, Disappeared People, and the War on Terror,” and “Using Video for Change: WITNESS’ Model for Human Rights Advocacy.” As it does each year, the Schell Center held a human rights career panel and sponsored several panels of Kirby Simon Summer Fellows, who spoke about their experience and the issues raised by their summer work.

The Schell Center administers several human rights fellowships. The Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights, inaugurated in 1997, funds two recent Yale Law School graduates annually to engage in full-time human rights work for a year. In 2006–2007, Bernstein Fellows worked in Argentina developing legal strategies to challenge human rights violations in prisons, and with Human Rights Watch, documenting sexual violence against women in the civil war in the Ivory Coast. The center invites established scholars and advocates to visit the Law School as Schell Fellows to conduct research, teach seminars, and meet with students. Each summer, the center provides students with travel grants for international human rights work. In 2006, Kirby Simon Summer Human Rights Fellowships allowed forty-four students to spend all or part of the summer engaged in human rights internships or research in twenty-four countries throughout the world. The Robert M. Cover/Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights Law spends two years at the Law School, working on all aspects of the center’s work, including supervision of the Lowenstein Clinic. The Schell Center supports the Lowenstein International Human Rights Project, the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, and other student projects related to human rights.

The center has received generous support from the John Merck Fund and friends and associates of Orville H. Schell, Jr., as well as the law firm of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, the Merck Pharmaceutical Foundation, the Arthur Ross Foundation, and the Diamondston Foundation.

The director of the Schell Center is Professor Paul W. Kahn. The executive director is Professor James J. Silk. The Cover/Lowenstein Fellow is Elizabeth W. Brundige. The Schell Center’s e-mail address is schell.law@yale.edu.

Opportunities for Study in Legal History

The study of American, English, and European legal history occupies an important place in the Law School’s curriculum. Recent and current offerings include courses on the history of the common law, the history of criminal procedure, constitutional history, American legal history, and European legal history. Seminars and lectures by outside scholars in legal history supplement the regular curricular offerings. An informal legal history program brings together students and faculty interested in legal history; it includes students and faculty from the Law School and the Yale Department of History as well as from elsewhere within and outside the University. The Law School also encourages advanced study and original research in American, English, and European legal history. A few students pursue the joint J.D.–Ph.D. program in History or in American Studies.

Visiting Researchers

Each year the Law School has in residence a few visiting researchers engaged in nondegree research. Visiting researchers may audit one or two courses per term (with the consent of individual instructors) and make use of library facilities for their work. There are no set requirements for admission; most visiting researchers are college and university teachers from law and other disciplines who are engaged in law-related work, but applications will be considered from any person of outstanding qualifications. Each visiting researcher is charged a minimum accommodation fee of $3,500 per term, or $7,000 per academic year. No financial aid from the Law School is available for participants in this program.

The visiting researcher application is available on the Law School Web site at www.law.yale.edu in the Admissions section. Applications must include a résumé or c.v.; a description of the proposed research, including a statement explaining why Yale Law School is a particularly appropriate affiliation for the proposed work; two letters of recommendation; official transcript(s) of the applicant’s academic record; and the proposed length and dates of stay. Official transcripts must be submitted in a sealed envelope, signed across the seal. All documents must be in English or accompanied by certified English translation.

The application deadlines are April 1 for the fall term and September 1 for the spring term.

Fellowships for Post-Graduate Research

Yale Law School offers a number of fellowships each year for post-graduate research, including the Irving S. Ribicoff Fellowship and two Ruebhausen Fellowships. These fellowships prepare individuals with law degrees for teaching careers in law. The Ribicoff Fellowship has a one-year term, while the Ruebhausen Fellowships have two-year terms. The fellows are in residence at the Law School and have access to the University research facilities and inclusion in the School’s intellectual community. They also receive a yearly stipend ($40,600 in 2007–2008), standard University health care coverage, and office space in the Law School. The fellows must be in residence in New Haven during the term of their fellowships. The deadline for applications for the fellowship term beginning in fall 2008 is January 10, 2008. For more information, e-mail theresa.bryant@yale.edu.

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