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Presenting Volume 122 of The Yale Law Journal
We are pleased to present the masthead for Volume 122 of The Yale Law Journal, which will commence publication in spring 2012.
View ArticleRecent YLJ Developments
Recent Media Coverage of YLJ ContentJonathan Masur's article, Patent Inflation, has attracted interest in policy and technology circles since its publication in the December 2011 issue of The Yale Law...
View ArticlePrison Law Writing Contest
The Yale Law Journal welcomes submissions for our first Prison Law Writing Contest. If you are or recently have been in jail or prison, we invite you to write a short essay about your experiences with...
View ArticleConcurso de Escritura sobre el Derecho de Prisiones
[This is a Spanish-language version of the guidelines for the Yale Law Journal Prison Law Writing Contest. An English version can be found here.]The Yale Law Journal [La revista de derecho de Yale]...
View ArticlePresenting Volume 122's Newest Editors
The Yale Law Journal is pleased to announce the selection of its first-year editors. Please join us in welcoming them to the YLJ community.
View ArticleYale Law Journal Prison Law Writing Contest Winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of The Yale Law Journal's Prison Law Writing Contest. We received approximately 1,500 responses from people all across the United States. We are grateful to those...
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Presenting Volume 123 of The Yale Law Journal
We are pleased to present the masthead for Volume 123 of The Yale Law Journal, which will commence publication in October 2013.
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Sonia Sotomayor, YLS '79, Confirmed to Supreme Court of the United States
Sonia Maria Sotomayor (Editor, Vol. 88, 1979) was confirmed as the 111th Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States with a Senate vote on August 6, 2009. She becomes the first Hispanic, and...
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Welcome to The Yale Law Journal Online
The Yale Law Journal is pleased to present its new online platform, The Yale Law Journal Online. YLJ Online will continue the Journal's mission of providing accessible and substantive scholarship...
View ArticleSubmissions Open
The Journal is now accepting submissions for Volume 119. Submissions currently being accepted are Notes and Comments, Book Reviews & Features, and YLJ Online pieces. Please note that The Yale...
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Robert Post, YLS '77, Named Dean of Yale Law School
On June 22, 2009, Robert C. Post (Note Editor, Vol. 86, 1977) was named Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Post, who has been the David Boies Professor of...
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Supreme Court Clinic and The Yale Law Journal Online Host DC Conference
In advance of its launch, The Yale Law Journal Online joined with the Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic to host a conference, "Important Questions of Federal Law": Assessing the Supreme...
View ArticleYLJ Online Transition
The Yale Law Journal website is currently transitioning to YLJ Online. Please bear with us for any temporary technical difficulties.
View ArticleYale Law Journal Note Deadline
The final Yale Law Journal Note drop date for this semester is approaching.
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Yale Law Journal Football Defeats Harvard Law Review, 49-21
NEW HAVEN, CT – For the seventh year running, The Yale Law Journal has defeated the Harvard Law Review in the annual flag football tournament between the two publications. The Journal scored a...
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Media Coverage of YLJ Online
The Yale Law Journal has been featured in several publications for its role in launching the first-ever online companion for a leading law review (The Pocket Part) in 2005, and its Fall 2009 launch of...
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YLJ Online and the Supreme Court Clinic Host Federal Judges and Experts at...
On Tuesday, March 23, 2010, The Yale Law Journal Online will join with the Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic to host the concluding segment of "Important Questions of Federal Law: Assessing...
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Yale Law Journal Football Remains Undefeated Against Penn, Columbia, and...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—In the end, they had only Geno's cheesesteaks to console themselves with. Entering the 2010 Bluebook Invitational with the homefield advantage, the Penn Law Review fielded a team...
View ArticleMedia Coverage of Recent YLJ Scholarship
A number of recent pieces of Yale Law Journal scholarship have received attention from legal commentators and the news media in the past several months. Below we have collected a sample of the coverage...
View ArticleYale Law Journal Football Brings Home Fifth Bluebook Victory, Eighth Win...
Yale Law Journal Flag Football recently capped off a banner year. Having soundly trounced Harvard in the fall--a 49-to-21 crushing defeat--Yale trekked up to Cambridge yet again this spring to...
View ArticleMedia Coverage of Andrew Koppelman's Recent YLJO Essay, Bad News for Mail...
Two weeks after publication, Andrew Koppelman's Yale Law Journal Online Essay, Bad News for Mail Robbers: The Obvious Constitutionality of Health Care Reform, has received widespread attention from...
View ArticleUpcoming YLJ Summer Receptions: Save the Date!
The Yale Law Journal will be hosting its second set of annual summer receptions for alumni and current editors. The receptions will take place in San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, D.C. on...
View ArticleJudicial Review and Health Care Reform: Applying Jeremy Waldron's The Core of...
In his YLJ Essay The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review, Jeremy Waldron argues that it is fundamentally undemocratic to allow judges to strike down legislation. Jeremy Waldron, The Core of the...
View ArticleMedia Coverage of Betsy Cooper's YLJO Essay, Judges in Jeopardy!: Could IBM’s...
In Judges in Jeopardy!: Could IBM’s Watson Beat Courts at Their Own Game?, Betsy Cooper examines IBM’s Watson computer and how it might affect the process by which new textualists interpret statutes....
View ArticlePlease Pardon Our Appearance as We Implement Website Changes
The Yale Law Journal is currently in the process of making some exciting changes to our web interface. Please pardon our appearance as we launch new functionalities. If you encounter any errors, please...
View ArticleRecent Media Coverage of YLJO Essay, The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability...
In a recent New York Times article on the upcoming Smith v. Cain oral argument before the Supreme Court, Campbell Robertson and Adam Liptak cite The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick...
View ArticleRecent Media Coverage of YLJ Article, Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and...
Legal Theory Blog has named YLJ article Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law as its recommended “Download of the Week.” Opinio Juris has also held a symposium on the article, with...
View ArticleRecent Media Coverage of YLJ Feature, Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New...
In her recent New Yorker article entitled Birthright, Jill Lepore cites to Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel’s Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash from Issue 8 of Volume 120 of...
View ArticleThe Yale Law Journal is now available on Kindle, iBooks, and Nook
The Yale Law Journal is now available on eReader formats for Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, and Barnes & Noble Nook. Each complete issue is available for $0.99.For all available YLJ issues in Kindle...
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The Yale Law Journal is now on Facebook and Twitter! Please follow us to receive updates on content, news, and press coverage. Click here to like us on Facebook and here to follow us on Twitter.
View ArticleRecent Media Coverage of Forthcoming YLJ Note, Locking the Doors to...
A forthcoming YLJ Note has already received attention from legal commentators. Jonah Gelbach, a second-year student at Yale Law School, has written a Note titled Locking the Doors to Discovery?...
View ArticleRecent Media Coverage of YLJ Essays
Legal Theory Blog has recently recommended two Yale Law Journal essays: Abbe R. Gluck’s Intrastatutory Federalism and Statutory Interpretation: State Implementation of Federal Law in Health Reform and...
View ArticleJournal Joins Legal Workshop
The Legal Workshop The Yale Law Journal has recently become a contributing member of The Legal Workshop, joining Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, NYU Law Review,...
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