Venue
The conference registration and opening reception will begin at 4pm on Monday, August 3rd in the President's Room on the second floor of Woolsey (Memorial) Hall, 500 College Street (corner of College & Grove). [map to Woolsey Hall]
Sessions, beginning at 9 am on Tuesday, August 4th, will be held in Rooms 121, 127, 128, and 129 at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT [map to YLS; map for inside YLS]
Yale Law School is housed in the Sterling Law Building, which occupies one city block at the heart of Yale University, close to downtown New Haven. Constructed in 1931, the building was modeled on the idea of the English Inns of Court. Classrooms, offices, the law library, two student computer labs, and the dining hall surround a pleasant courtyard.
The reception, poster session, and conference dinner will begin at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, August 5 at the Quinnipiac Club, 221 Church Street, New Haven, CT [map to Q Club]
The Quinnipiack Club was founded in 1871 as the "Ours Club," by twenty young New Haven businessmen. In the post-Civil War years, gentlemen's clubs offered comfort and camaraderie as cities took shape, powered by enormous growth in industry, education and the arts. "Ours" set itself among them and quickly became a focal point of social activity among the up-and-coming of the era.
The first clubhouse consisted of two rented rooms in the Hoadley Building, a four-story cast iron- fronted showplace on the corner of Church and Crown. As the years passed, "Ours" became the Quinnipiack Club, its numbers outgrowing the Hoadley Building, the Elias Shipman House on Chapel at Temple Street, and the Darling House, a little further up Chapel Street. It was at this location, in 1913, that visiting president William Howard Taft was made an honorary member.
The club unveiled its plans for a handsome Georgian style clubhouse at 221 Church Street just slightly ahead of the Great Depression. It was designed by the nationally known architect Douglas Orr. Completed in 1931, it has been the home of members and an elegant, welcoming "home away from home" for countless visitors and guests over the years.