YLS student named Rhodes Scholar
Isra J. Bhatty ’10 was among 32 American students chosen to receive Rhodes scholarships this year. Bhatty graduated from the University of Chicago in 2006 with majors in economics and near eastern languages and literature. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a college junior and won many prizes for leadership and scholarship. Bhatty founded a tutoring program in Chicago, was an English-Urdu translator for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, led a Chicago coalition on criminal justice reform, and has worked closely with Chicago's inner-city Muslim Action Network. She also founded and captained an intramural champion women's football team and is a hip-hop artist and poet. At Oxford, she plans to pursue an MPhil in evidence-based social intervention, with a focus on programs for people of color, immigrants, and substance abusers.
Professor honored by American Bar Foundation
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik was the 2008 recipient of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar Award, presented annually to an individual "who has engaged in outstanding scholarship in the law or in government." Professor Resnik joins a distinguished group of scholars who have received the award, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Richard Posner, and Louis Henkin. She is the fifth woman so honored and the seventh recipient from Yale Law School.
"Judith Resnik has had a profound impact on the rule of law and administration of justice in our country," said Dean Harold Hongju Koh. "Her perceptive and powerful scholarship makes her a most fitting successor to the past recipients [of this award] from our school."
Professor Resnik is author of numerous books and essays, including, most recently, "Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century Courthouses" (with Dennis E. Curtis), published in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. She is founding director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellowship and Fund at Yale Law School and a co-chair of the Yale Women Faculty Forum.
Law and social sciences professor dies
Stanton Wheeler, Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus of Law and the Social Sciences and professorial lecturer in law, died December 7, 2007, at age 77. (See "Law professor's trumpet no longer sounds," Milestones, for a Yale Alumni Magazine obituary.) A prolific scholar known for his leadership in the integration of law and social science, Professor Wheeler taught at Yale Law School and in the sociology department at Yale University. He was a longtime master of Morse College, with strong ties to the athletic and music departments at Yale. He had a passion for jazz and the trumpet and played with jazz bands throughout most of his life. "Stan Wheeler helped to create the field of sociology of law. For decades, he immeasurably enriched Yale's community as a scholar, teacher, college master, musician, sportsman, and friend," said Dean Harold Hongju Koh. In his honor, the Professor Stan Wheeler Fund has been established to support Yale Law School faculty and student research and activities related to Stan's areas of interest, which included sociology and the law; white-collar crime; and sports, entertainment, and the law.
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