YLS announces additions to faculty
The Law School is pleased to welcome four outstanding
individuals to appointments at the school. Thomas W. Merrill joins as professor
of law, specializing in property, environmental law, administrative law,
eminent domain, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the Charles Keller Beekman
Professor of Law at Columbia University. Legal historian Nicholas Parrillo ’04JD
has been appointed associate professor of law and will teach in the fields of
administrative law and American legal history. Scott J. Shapiro ’90JD comes to
Yale as a professor of law and philosophy. He previously held a joint
appointment with the University of Michigan's Law School and philosophy
department. His areas of specialty include jurisprudence, criminal law,
constitutional law and theory, and family law. And Linda Greenhouse ’78MSL, Pulitzer
Prize-winning legal writer and Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, joins the faculty as the Knight
Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow.
She will advise on the Law and Media Program, lecture, do research, and
participate in various Law School activities, including the Supreme Court Clinic.
Professor elected to American Academy
Professor Reva Siegel ’78, ’86JD, has been elected a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is deputy dean and
the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School and professor
of American studies at Yale University. Her writing draws on legal history to
explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with
representative government and popular movements in interpreting the
Constitution. She is co-editor of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking and Directions in Sexual
Harassment Law.
(For the Yale Alumni Magazine's list of other Yale-affiliated AAAS inductees, see page
"Honored.")
Study leads to changes in public interest program and
financial aid
Yale Law School is enhancing its public interest
program and increasing financial support for graduates. The school is
substantially increasing the amount of support provided through its loan
forgiveness program, COAP (Career Options Assistance Program); doubling the
number of post-graduate public interest fellowships it offers; adding a
full-time director of public interest programs; and increasing funding for
international summer public-interest opportunities. The changes are the result
of a multi-year study by the school's Public Interest and Financial Aid
Committee, which sought ways to improve opportunities for students to engage in
public service both during and after their time at the Law School. A
student-led Public Interest Working Group also worked closely with the
administration on the recommendations.
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