School Notes: Yale Law School
July/August 2016

New college named for YLS alumna

One of Yale’s new undergraduate residential colleges will be named for Anna Pauline Murray ’65JSD. “Pauli” Murray was a 1933 graduate of Hunter College who unsuccessfully campaigned to enter the all-white University of North
Carolina. Murray’s case received national publicity, and she became widely recognized as a civil rights activist. In 1965 she became the first African American to receive a JSD from Yale Law School. Murray was a cofounder, with 31 others, of the National Organization for Women, and went on to serve as vice president of Benedict College and as a professor at Brandeis University, where she earned tenure and taught until 1973. The final stage of Murray’s career continued a life marked by confronting challenges and breaking down barriers. At age 63, she enrolled at the General Theological Seminary and became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. Murray died in 1985 at age 74.

Professor honored by Academy

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has elected Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law Peter Schuck to its 2016 class of members. Professor Schuck’s major fields of teaching and research are tort law; immigration, citizenship, and refugee law; groups, diversity, and law; and administrative law. He has held his chair at Yale Law School since 1984. 

Grant to fund work on cyber security

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has awarded a $406,000, two-year grant to support a collaboration between Yale Law School and Yale University’s Department of Computer Science that will investigate the legal and technical aspects of cyber conflict. The faculty leads on the project are Professors Oona Hathaway ’97JD and Scott Shapiro ’90JD at the Law School, and Professor Joan Feigenbaum, chair of the computer science department at Yale. Working together, they will pursue cross-disciplinary education and research in cyber conflict, and train future leaders in this emerging field. This novel, cross-disciplinary initiative is part of the Cyber Initiative at the Hewlett Foundation, which seeks to address a broad range of topics that impact the security, stability, and resilience of a free and open Internet and connected devices.