Yale Law School Events

Week of October 17, 2016

October 17 Monday

The Future of International Climate Change Negotiations: from Paris to Marrakech

  • 12:00PM to 1:00PM
  • Room 113

Professor Daniel M. Bodansky will discuss the international climate change negotiations leading to the Paris Climate Agreement of December 2015, as well as developments since the Paris Agreement and what is likely to happen at the Marrakech Climate Change Conference this November. Professor Bodansky is the Foundation Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs.

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October 17 Monday

CANCELLED: Sexual Minorities Uganda v. Scott Lively

  • 12:00PM to 1:00PM
  • TBD

This event has been postponed to a date TBA.

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October 17 Monday

National Security in the Digital Age A Discussion With Veteran Journalist David Sanger

  • 12:10PM to 2:30PM
  • Room 120

Cyberwar, mass surveillance, election-related hacks -- technology is reshaping the national security landscape. Join us on October 17 for a conversation with The New York Times' David Sanger, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist who first revealed the Stuxnet worm and whose reporting tracks the foreign policy deliberations of the most senior U.S. officials. Sanger will speak about the latest trends in U.S.

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October 17 Monday

Turning Out The Vote: Voting Rights and Voter Participation with Mee Moua of Asian Americans Advancing Justice

  • 12:10PM to 1:00PM
  • Room 129

With each election cycle, voters of color become increasingly influential in shaping the national conversation and influencing who is ultimately elected. This election will be no different. At the top of this year’s agenda are issues with substantial stakes for communities of color, such as policing, criminal justice, immigration, and healthcare. At the same time, communities of color face unique obstacles to securing the franchise, ranging from restrictive voter identification laws to language barriers.

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October 17 Monday

2016 - 2017 Dean's Lecture with Kevin Washburn '93

  • 4:30PM to 6:00PM
  • Faculty Lounge

Kevin Washburn, '93 will deliver a Dean's Lecture entitled; In the Beginning was the Federal Trust Responsibility to Indian Tribes. Then Came Tribal Self-Governance. Conflict Ensues. Since first described by Chief Justice John Marshall, the United Stated has been deemed to have a moral and legal “trust responsibility” to the American Indian tribal nations who gave way so that the United States could exist. But for nearly two centuries, the trust responsibility has reflected a strongly paternalistic view toward Indian tribes.

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