Supreme Court justice visits Law
School
The day after declaring the
Constitution a "dead document" in a speech to the Yale Political Union, Supreme
Court justice Antonin Scalia took part in a question-and-answer session with
the Law School community. Leading the discussion were Sterling Professor of Law
and Political Science Bruce Ackerman ’67LLB and Southmayd Professor of Law
Akhil Amar ’80, ’84JD. In the hour-long session, Justice Scalia answered
questions on the role of the ninth amendment in reading the Constitution, the
core principles of Bush v. Gore, and whether to consider the drafters' original intent in
modern-day interpretations of the Constitution.
Yale Law School to acquire
university "swing dorm"
After 75 years in a single building,
Yale Law School is beginning to feel a space crunch. Though it once housed dorm
rooms for 140 students, today the Law School's Sterling Law Building has only
23 dorm rooms. In an effort to help alleviate that space problem and restore
the Law School's tradition of a residential community, the Law School and the
university have negotiated for YLS to acquire the university "swing dorm" in
approximately 2012 as part of the Law School's $200 million capital campaign.
The swing dorm, which is located
just a block from the Sterling Law Building, is a 125,000-square-foot facility.
It currently houses undergraduates who have been displaced during the ongoing
renovations of undergraduate residential colleges. Those renovations are
anticipated to be completed in the next five years, at which time the Law
School will acquire the building. Yale Law School dean Harold Hongju Koh said
he looks forward to making the building a "welcoming home for future
generations of Yale law students."
State Supreme Court justices receive
Alumni Award of Merit
This past fall, the Yale Law School
Association, the alumni organization of Yale Law School, presented its Award of
Merit to three state Supreme Court justices: the Hon. Margaret Marshall ’76JD,
chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and a Yale
Corporation fellow; the Hon. Drayton Nabers Jr. ’65LLB, chief justice of the
Supreme Court of Alabama; and the Hon. Randall T. Shepard ’72JD, chief justice
of the Indiana Supreme Court. Award recipients are recognized for having made a
substantial contribution to public service or to the legal profession. Previous
recipients of the award include: Eugene V. Rostow ’33, ’37LLB, ’44MAH; Cyrus R.
Vance ’39, ’42LLB, ’68LLDH; Gerald R. Ford ’41LLB, ’77LLDH; Eleanor Holmes
Norton ’63MA, ’64LLB; Ellen Ash Peters ’54LLB, ’64MAH, ’85LLDH; and William J.
Clinton ’73JD.
Another Academy fellow
An announcement in the
September/October issue listed seven YLS alumni who had been elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, but left out the name of Victor S.
Navasky ’59JD, who also was elected to the Academy last year.
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