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04/16/04
CARE Advocacy Weekend - Welcome Reception
Keynote Speaker: Joseph Iarocci, General Counsel of CARE USA
International Public Interest Law Event
Time: 7pm / Location: President's Room (Commons, 2nd Floor)
YPLS is invited to attend a special welcome reception and keynote speech
with the General Counsel of CARE USA, Joseph Iarocci. The event is the
kickoff to the inaugural CARE Advocacy Weekend April 16-18, hosted by the
College Council for CARE. Pre-law society members will be able to attend the
reception for free (optional $5 donation). RSVP is required (lauren.thompson@yale.edu).
Weekend events include workshops (such as "Real
Opportunities for Student Advocacy" with the CARE Advocacy Network Regional
Director), panels (with student activists and campus leaders), an
international potluck dinner and dessert with Yale World Fellows and a
service activity in conjunction with Communiversity Day.
About Our Keynote Speaker:
Joseph Iarocci is the General Counsel of CARE, one of the largest private
international poverty-fighting organizations with programs in 67 developing
countries, offices in 44 countries, and 11,000 employees. He supervises
inside and outside counsel representing CARE around the world and is
responsible for all of CARE's legal matters. Before joining CARE in 1998,
Mr. Iarocci was in private law practice in Atlanta and New York City. His
community activities include membership on the Piedmont Hospital Ethics
Committee and work as a mentor for Emory University Law School students
considering careers in public interest law. As CARE’s chief legal officer,
he will discuss his international public interest career and how he believes
students can impact change through public policy and advocacy. Mr. Iarocci
received his law degree from the Cornell Law School and his undergraduate
degree from Brown University.
For more information about College Council for CARE, visit their website.
04/08/04
"Intellectual Property in the Digital Age"
Speaker: Yale Professor Robert Dunne
Time: 6pm / Location: LC 317
Robert Dunne is interested in legal problems arising from the use of
computers in contemporary society – particularly in the context of the
Internet; trade secrecy, copyrights, and trademark rights and the World Wide
Web; privacy and security issues related to databases; the Constitution in
cyberspace; potential liability for failure of software systems; and
computational forensic tools. He has written on alternative paradigms for behavioral control in
cyberspace, the impact of cyberspace on the legal profession, and Internet
crime. He teaches Computers and the Law and Legal Implications of
Computing Technology as an Assistant Adjunct Professor of the Computer Science Department at Yale.
Professor Dunne is a Co-Director of Yale’s Center for Internet Studies, an
interdisciplinary effort whose goal is to explore the Internet’s effect on
society, and vice versa, from many perspectives–technological, legal,
political, economic, cultural, and educational.
As an attorney, Professor Dunne serves in a consulting capacity as General
Counsel for Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. He is a Fellow of Yale’s Silliman College and a
member of the American, Connecticut, and New Haven County Bar Associations.
03/30/04
Law School 101: Secrets to First Year Success
Sponsored by Kaplan and Barbri
Time: 7-9pm / Location: Yale Law School, Room 129
Kaplan is pleased to invite your members of the Yale Pre-Law Society -
especially those applying to law school next fall -- to a very exciting free
event called Law School 101: Secrets to First Year Success.
Through a unique partnership with Barbri, the leader in law school
preparation and bar review programs, Kaplan offers students the opportunity
to experience a mock, 2-hour first year law school class.
This free event will expose your members to a range of skills necessary for
succeeding during that all-important first year of law school. Topics will
include how to review and brief a law case, make practical arguments and the
grading process. Students will also learn how to conduct themselves in
class, prepare for exams and more.
The featured speaker will be noted former assistant law school dean and
professor as well as national legal expert, John Kip Cornwell, JD. Dr.
Cornwell can answer questions about admissions to law school and being a
good student once you are there.
Please note that space is limited, so we encourage interested students to
register today by calling 1-800-KAP-TEST or visiting kaptest.com/law.
If you have questions, please call 789-1169 or email.
03/27/04
"Diversity on the Bench: Achieving Justice"
Speaker: California Supreme Court Justice Carlos
Moreno (PC 70)
Time: 11:00 am / Location: Yale Law School, Faculty Lounge (2nd Floor)
The Yale Latino/a Law Students Association, together with MEChA de Yale, the
Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Yale Divinity Latino Association, and the
Yale Pre-Law Society is pleased to announce the upcoming visit of California
Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno. On Saturday, March 27th, at 11:00 am,
Justice Moreno will speak in the Yale Law School Faculty Lounge on the 2nd
Floor. The topic of Justice Moreno's remarks will be: “Diversity on the
Bench: Achieving Justice.” Continental breakfast will be served and all are
welcome to attend. (For food-ordering purposes, if you plan to attend please
respond to: manuel.berrelez@yale.edu.)
Justice Moreno is a Yale College (PC 70) and Stanford Law School graduate, and before his
appointment to the California Supreme Court, he was a Federal District Judge
in the Central District of California (a Clinton appointee). He was also the
2001 recipient of the For God, For Country, For Yale Award given by the
University to a distinguished alum.
For those who are unable to attend the Saturday event, please note that
Justice Moreno will also speak on Friday, March 26 at a Pierson College
Master's Tea. The Tea will take place at 5 pm in the "Swing Space" (the
building on Grove St. next to Payne Whitney Gym). At this event, Justice
Moreno will speak more generally about his career and about being a Chicano
student at Yale in the late 1960s.
For more information about the event, contact Manuel Berrelez (DC 00, LAW 05) Academic Chair, Yale Latino Law Students
Association.
03/24/04
"The Formation
and Future of the International Criminal Court"
Speaker: Dr. Roy Lee
Dr. Roy Lee has been with the United Nations Secretariat since 1967 working
in the fields of human rights, law of the sea, international humanitarian
law, and settlement of disputes. He was Executive Secretary of the UN Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of
an International Criminal Court, Director of the Division for the
codification and development of international law of the UN Office of Legal
Affairs, and Secretary of the International Law Commission and the Sixth
(Legal) Committee of the General Assembly.
Currently, he is Senior Special Fellow of the United Nations Institute for
Training and Research, and Professor of Law at Columbia University Law
School teaching UN peacekeeping and Current Legal Problems of the
UN. He has taught international law and relations in various law schools
in Europe, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Canada. He has published six books on space law, law of the sea, the
International Court of Justice, and the Rome Statute creating the
International Criminal Court, as well as some thirty articles on various
subjects of international law. He studied law in China and did post-graduate
work (LL.M. and Ph.D.) in Canada and Britain.
Dr. Roy Lee will be addressing his experience in the formation of the International
Criminal Court (the first permanent, treaty-based, international
criminal court established to ensure that the gravest international crimes
do not go unpunished) and where he sees the ICC heading in the future. He
will also speak on the subjects of international law and his experiences transitioning from
a communist country to the parliamentary UK.
02/28/04
Free LSAT Sample Class by Powerscore
A Powerscore instructor has offered to teach a free sample LSAT class.
Visit Powerscore's website for
information about their preparation courses. If possible, please RSVP to sallie.kim@yale.edu as soon as
possible if you plan on attending so that they can prepare enough materials
for everyone.
02/25/04
"The Threat to Justice: Packing the Federal Courts"
Alliance for Justice Student Action Campaign Event
Speaker: Yale Law School Professor Akhil Amar
The event will start with a five minute overview of the federal judicial
nomination process and move
onto a fifteen minute video, which has clips from some of the more
controversial hearings. This will be followed by a discussion with Yale Law
School Professor Akhil Amar on the constitutional ramifications of such
conflicts. There will have time for questions at the end of the event.
The event will be co-sponsored by ACLU, SLAM, Consent, RALLY, Women's
Center, YSEC, Muslim Student Association, and BSAY.
Speaker Profile of Akhil Amar:
Akhil Reed Amar is Southmayd Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale
University, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and
federal jurisdiction. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School and a
former clerk of Stephen Breyer, he has delivered endowed lectures at over
two dozen universities. His many law review articles have been widely cited
by scholars and judges, and has also written widely on constitutional issues
for lay audiences in fora such as The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The American Lawyer, and Slate. His two most recent books are The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction and Processes of
Constitutional Decisionmaking.
02/22/04
YPLS Organizational Meeting
The board discussed plans for the rest of the semester and
prepared for upcoming events. Meeting open to members interested in becoming more involved in YPLS.
02/04/04
Speaker: Connecticut Secretary of State Susan
Bysiewicz
Susan Bysiewicz is Connecticut's 72nd Secretary of the State. First elected
in 1998, she was re-elected in November, 2002. Previously, Secretary
Bysiewicz served three terms in the state legislature representing the 100th
Assembly District, which includes Middletown, Durham and Middlefield.
As the state's chief business registrar, Bysiewicz has encouraged the
expansion and development of Connecticut-based companies by streamlining the
registration process and providing technical assistance to small and
minority-owned businesses. Bysiewicz continues to support the testing of
modern ATM-style voting machines to ensure accurate elections and accessible
voting for persons with disabilities, and a statewide voter registration
database to prevent fraud and protect voters' rights.
Susan Bysiewicz graduated from Yale University in 1983 and Duke University
School of Law in 1986. After practicing corporate and international law at
the New York City firm of White and Case, she returned to Connecticut with
Robinson and Cole in Hartford, where she specialized in corporate and
banking law from 1988 to 1992. In 1992, she joined the law department of
Aetna Insurance Company, where she practiced health care and pension law
until 1994.
12/14/03
Speaker: Leigh J. Randall, Executive Vice-President
of Stonewater
Mr. Randall is responsible for managing spa acquisitions and strategic
planning for Stonewater. Prior to joining Stonewater, Mr. Randall was
executive vice president of corporate and business development for Small
World Media, Inc., an online game and Web site developer. Mr. Randall also
worked for McKinsey & Co., and was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
law firm in New York City, representing clients on securities transactions,
mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters.
Mr. Randall obtained his law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law
School and received a BA in economics and English, summa cum laude, from
Duke University.
11/12/03 - POSTPONED
Speaker: Connecticut Attorney General Richard
Blumenthal LAW '73
Richard Blumenthal was first elected to serve as Connecticut's 23rd Attorney
General in 1990, re-elected in 1994, and then re-elected to an unprecedented
fourth term in 2002. Before being elected Attorney General, he was a member
of the State Senate and the House of Representatives. He served as United
States Attorney for Connecticut, as administrative assistant to United
States Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff, as aide to United States Senator Daniel
P. Moynihan when Moynihan was Assistant to the President of the United
States, as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, and as
volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Attorney General Blumenthal graduated with honors from Harvard College (Phi
Beta Kappa; Magna Cum Laude) and Yale Law School, where he was
Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. He also served as a sergeant in the
United States Marine Corps Reserves.
11/06/03
"Cross-sections of Law and Politics"
Speaker: State Senator Bill Aniskovich
YPLS enjoyed having Senator Aniskovich speak to the group about the
relationship between law and politics. The audience was actively engaged in
a discussion with the Senator about the nation's political institutions and
the philosophical foundations upon which they were founded.
A graduate of Catholic University of America with a BA in political science,
Senator Aniskovich attended the University of Virginia School of Government
and Foreign Affairs. He subsequently received his law degree at the
University of Virginia Law School in 1989. That same year he was admitted to
the Connecticut State and federal Bar in 1989. He started his practice of
law with the New Haven law firm of Brenner, Saltzman, Wallman & Goldman. In
1992, he moved to the Hartford law firm of Pepe & Hazard.
Senator Aniskovich is currently in his sixth term in the Conn. senate,
representing the 12th District of Connecticut. He is also the Minority
Leader Pro Tempore, the second-highest Republican position in the
legislative body.
For more information about Senator Aniskovich, please visit his website.
11/05/03
NOAA/Commerce Department Public Hearing
Two years ago a company called Islander East got permission to build a
natural gas pipeline through Connecticut extending to Long Island Sound. The
construction of this pipeline would destroy much of the ecosystem, and cause
irreparable damage. In October 2002 and again in July 2003, the CT state
courts put a ban on the project, and now Islander East is appealing this
decision to NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
within the federal Department of Commerce; a public hearing is being held to
obtain public input on the appeal - basically a power struggle between state
and the federal government. It's especially interesting because next year is
an election year, so there's a ton of pressure on the federal government by
large corporations to override the statute of the CT state court.
Please feel free to drop by the Omni anytime starting from 9 in the morning
(the hearing will last indefinitely into the evening) and stay for as long
as you'd like. Speakers include CT Attorney General Blumenthal and Dr. Kiki
Kennedy, who have been working relentlessly for the past two years to stop
Islander East's construction of the pipeline, as well as Carmela Cuomo from
the Yale geology department, who will speak on the potential detrimental
effects if Islander East is not stopped. Support the fight against Islander
East and its destruction of Long Island Sound. For more information visit
www.ctstopthepipeline.com or call 481-STOP.
Note: The Yale Pre-Law Society has been publicizing this event on campus,
but is not a sponsor of the event itself.
10/23/03
Study Break
YPLS had its first study break and Krispy Kreme doughnuts were provided
during the committee meetings in WLH 116.
10/16/03
General Meeting
The Yale Pre-Law Society opened the semester with its first general meeting.
Members listened to speaker Jeff Goldman, a third-year student at Yale Law
School. Jeff shared an account of his law school experience and anticipated
goals in a law career. Members furloughed questions on the admissions
process, law school culture, and career options.
09/21/03
Informational Meeting
YPLS held an informational meeting in the Branford Common Room for
undergraduate students interested in learning more about joining the
organization.
09/18/03
Law and Public Policy Fair
Sponsored by Yale Undergraduate Career Services.
YPLS volunteered by helping set up this event in the Lanman Center of Payne
Whitney Gymnasium. YPLS also had a table at the fair where interested
students could sign up to be added to the e-mail list.
08/02/05
Business Chair, Nicholas Gross, speaks at a Kaplan Test Prep event at Yale Law School
04/20/04
Bulldog Days Extracurricular Bazaar at Payne Whitney Gym
04/19/04
Yale Daily News
CARE's Advocacy
Weekend excites members
03/29/04
Yale Daily News
Moreno
'70 gives Calif. law insights
02/05/04
Yale Daily News
Bysiewicz
'83 talks as political woman
10/07/03
Yale Daily News
Senator
links law, politics
09/24/03
Yale Daily News
Law
school hopefuls discover one another
09/18/03
Law and Public Policy Fair at Payne Whitney Gym
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