RSS

Newsmaker

Every Friday, we choose an alum who has been making headlines—for better or for worse.

TOPIC

Politics & Law

  • Kris Kobach ’95JD

    Amid all the talk about whether Arizona’s controversial new immigration law is constitutional, law professor Kris Kobach ’95JD has... Read on
    the staff | May 7 2010 04:49pm

  • Richard Klapper ’79MA, ’79JD

    Facing an aggressive fraud suit by the federal government, who ya gonna call? When you’re Goldman Sachs, you call Richard Klapper ’79MA... Read on
    the staff | April 23 2010 04:45pm

  • David Frum ’82, ’82MA

    Since the days when his Reagan-era undergraduate views graced the opinion pages of the Yale Daily News, David Frum ’82, ’82MA, has... Read on
    the staff | April 9 2010 04:43pm

  • Craig Becker ’78, ’81JD

    “I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government.” So declared President Barack Obama... Read on
    the staff | April 2 2010 04:41pm

  • Richard Ravitch ’58LLB

    Richard Ravitch ’58LLB ran for public office only once, two decades ago, and came in third. Yet the 76-year-old lawyer/real estate... Read on
    the staff | March 5 2010 03:25pm

  • Goodwin Liu ’98JD

    Wednesday, a group of liberal law professors delivered a letter urging President Barack Obama to move more aggressively in appointing “a new... Read on
    the staff | February 26 2010 03:23pm

  • Rashad Hussain ’07JD

    Rashad Hussain ’07JD comes from a family of doctors. Now, President Barack Obama is calling on this young Indian American lawyer to help heal... Read on
    the staff | February 19 2010 03:22pm

  • Reshma Saujani ’02JD

    Standing on a bench in a Manhattan coffee shop Sunday, Reshma Saujani ’02JD declared: “This is a new decade and we need a new... Read on
    the staff | February 5 2010 03:19pm

  • David Boies ’66LLB

    He’s represented everyone from George Steinbrenner to Napster, from Michael Moore to disgraced Enron exec Andy Fastow. In his best-known case, Bush... Read on
    the staff | January 15 2010 03:14pm

  • Cyrus Vance Jr. ’77

    When a guy who shares a name with his famous father goes to work for a famous boss—nicknamed “The Boss”—it can be hard to get... Read on
    the staff | January 8 2010 03:12pm

  • Neal Katyal ’95JD

    Last time we wrote about Neal Katyal ’95JD, he had just bested the federal government in a US Supreme Court case. Now Katyal is the federal... Read on
    the staff | October 9 2009 12:19pm

  • Jacob Hacker ’00PhD

    Health policy guru Jacob Hacker ’00PhD has been dubbed the “father of the public option.” But it’s been an awfully tough... Read on
    the staff | October 2 2009 12:18pm

  • Andrew Romanoff ’89

    Back in January, Colorado governor Bill Ritter appointed Michael Bennet ’93JD to fill a US Senate seat vacated by Cabinet nominee Ken Salazar.... Read on
    the staff | September 18 2009 12:13pm

  • Van Jones ’93JD

    He was hired to promote green jobs, but Van Jones ’93JD turned out to have too many red flags for the White House. The environmental activist... Read on
    the staff | September 11 2009 12:11pm

  • Robert Morgenthau ’48LLB

    In nearly 35 years as Manhattan District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau ’48LLB has drawn hundreds of headlines, prosecuted everyone from... Read on
    the staff | September 4 2009 12:08pm

  • Dawn Johnsen ’83, ’86JD

    Nearly eight months after Barack Obama nominated her to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, Indiana University law professor... Read on
    the staff | August 28 2009 12:06pm

  • Bill Clinton ’73JD

    It took 20 hours, one dinner with the head of state, and one crucial apology to win the reversal of a 12-year sentence for two American journalists in... Read on
    the staff | August 7 2009 12:02pm

  • Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. ’73

    Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. ’73 has written for the New Yorker, made PBS documentaries, won a MacArthur “genius... Read on
    the staff | July 24 2009 12:22pm

  • Dan Froomkin ’85

    Since his days at the Yale Daily News, Dan Froomkin ’85 has never been one to duck an argument. He started plenty in the past five years in... Read on
    the staff | June 26 2009 11:53am