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After 25 years in the ÈâÂþÎÝ Law community, Troy McKenzie ’00 takes the helm as dean, bringing deep insight and affection for the Law School to his new role.

During Trevor Morrison’s deanship, the Law School maintained a strategic focus on innovating in education, building diversity, and ensuring student success.

By championing new perspectives, the online forum Just Security has changed the debate around national security and human rights.

How are ESG standards—environmental, social, and governance factors—impacting business, investing, and law practice? Ask these ÈâÂþÎÝ Law faculty and alumni.

Pamela Mittman, new assistant dean for career services, explains how the Office of Career Services supports alumni—and why ÈâÂþÎÝ Law students inspire her.

Vicki Been ’83, New York City’s former deputy mayor for housing and economic development, discusses her time in government and how it will inform her future academic research.

Deborah Archer and her Civil Rights Clinic students mount a successful challenge to a program in which Tampa, Florida, police notified landlords of their tenants' arrests.

The ÈâÂþÎÝ-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project, co-led by Maggie Blackhawk, supports the sovereignty of Native nations and addresses the impact of American colonialism on Native peoples.

In her nearly four decades at ÈâÂþÎÝ Law, Irene Dorzback helped launch the legal careers of thousands of students.

ÈâÂþÎÝ School of Law and ÈâÂþÎÝ Wagner Graduate School of Public Service establish a new MS in Health Law and Strategy.

A 500-page liber amicorum with contributions from three dozen friends and colleagues celebrates the work of pioneering antitrust scholar Eleanor Fox ’61.

Three new members join a board of trustees whose;varied backgrounds highlight the broad range of professional experience in the ÈâÂþÎÝ Law community.

Three inaugural Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network fellows discuss what the fellowship has meant to them as they start their careers.

ÈâÂþÎÝ Law’s Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging will have a new name that honors Roger Meltzer ’77, an ÈâÂþÎÝ Law trustee and chairman emeritus of DLA Piper.

Anna McGrane ’10, co-founder and COO of PacerPro, co-founded the ÈâÂþÎÝ Law & Tech group to help grow the networks that originally helped her.

Gelvina Rodriguez Stevenson ’99 talks about her work with the Hispanic Bar Association and the importance of building networks to bring innovation to market.

Tanya Coke ’94, director of the Ford Foundation’s gender, racial, and ethnic justice team, talks about her work fighting racial injustice.

Liron Brish ’08, co-founder of the agricultural app Farm Dog, shares how lessons learned from past startups helped him build a successful business.

Antitrust and complex commercial litigation expert Patrick A. Bradford ’89 describes his path from big-firm practice to the launch of a new, Black-owned firm.

Dawn Botti ’94, executive vice president of legal and business affairs for AMC Studios, talks about the roles that curiosity and contracts have played in her entertainment law career.

As a professor of arts management and as a multimedia artist, Laura Ricciardi ’08 examines the intersection of art and law.

Keker, Van Nest & Peters name partner Elliot Peters ’85, who has handled major litigation cases representing clients including cyclist Lance Armstrong and the Major League Baseball Association, found his calling as a litigator at ÈâÂþÎÝ Law.

Song Kim ’13 discusses how a shift from public interest law to medtech entrepreneurship allows her to advocate for vulnerable populations.

A supporter of what is now the Peter L. Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law and the inaugural director of the Center on Civil Justice, Zimroth passed away on November 7, 2021.

ÈâÂþÎÝ Law remembers community members who have passed away during the past academic year.

Vincent Southerland illuminates the problem of bias in the criminal legal system’s use of algorithmic tools.

Amy Adler and Jeanne Fromer argue that memes, which raise questions about conventional notions of copyright law, have considerable legal and cultural significance.

Existing intellectual property law can make it more challenging for developing countries to innovate, Rochelle Dreyfuss writes.

Cynthia Estlund’s most recent book proposes strategies for a world in which automation could dramatically reduce employment.

Scott Hemphill spotlights an antitrust problem for highly innovative industries: anticompetitive acquisitions of nascent competitors.

Brittany Farr conducts innovative research on race and contract law in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

With a background in antitrust enforcement and policy, Daniel Francis JSD ’20 focuses on competition law and the constitutional underpinnings of regulation.

Brant Hellwig LLM ’00 brings a love of tax law and ÈâÂþÎÝ Law to his role as faculty director of the Graduate Tax Program.

Daniel Hemel’s broad-ranging scholarship draws on tax law, administrative law, and intellectual property law to explore the central issue of redistribution.

Avani Mehta Sood uses original psychological research to challenge unexamined assumptions and biases in legal decision-making.

This year’s event marked the successful conclusion of ÈâÂþÎÝ Law’s record-breaking $540 million Lead the Way capital campaign.

Tsion Gurmu ’15, legal director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and founder of the Queer Black immigrant project, received the Women of Color Collective’s Woman of Distinction Award.

ÈâÂþÎÝ Law Women presented Bridget McCormack ’91, Chief Justice at the Michigan Supreme Court, with the group’s 2022 Alumna of the Year award.

OUTLaw honored Jennifer Pizer ’87, senior counsel and director of strategic initiatives at Lambda Legal, with the group’s Alumna of the Year award.

The Law Alumni of Color Association (LACA) Spring Dinner honored the achievements of alumni and the Law School’s students of color.

Graduates from 10 classes ranging from 1972 to 2017 reconnected at class dinners, at the Tax Alumni Reception, and at brunch at the Rainbow Room.

An ÈâÂþÎÝ Law conference in Edinburgh examined pressing current issues involving international security, democracy, and free speech.

Cheered on by family, friends, and faculty, more than 900 members of the Class of 2022 received their diplomas at Madison Square Garden in May.

In the lead-up to ÈâÂþÎÝ Law’s Convocation ceremony, student scholars celebrated with the donors that helped make their legal educations possible.

Class of 2022 graduates celebrated with family members who are also graduates of the Law School.