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Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua, giving her inaugural lecture as the John M. Duff Professor, provides a historical overview of world-dominant powers and discusses the possibility--and desirability--of an American Empire.
In this discussion, Yale Law School Sterling Professsor Emeritus Owen Fiss reflects upon his time advising Argentinian President Raúl Alfonsín and his administration during the human rights trials that the country conducted in the mid 1980s.
From that experience, Professor Fiss came to see human...
Published 02/14/12
Renowned human rights activist and former South Africa Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs delivered the Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship Lecture at Yale Law School on September 21, 2011. The lecture, titled “The Judge Who Cried: Social and Economic Rights as Judicially Enforceable...
Published 01/30/12
Justice Izhak Englard, former justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, gives a Dean's Lecture at Yale Law School on "Law and Morality in the Jewish Tradition."
Published 10/25/10