About Yale
This Tumblr is a photo album, sketchbook and moodboard of sights and sounds from around the University and our home, New Haven, Connecticut. Some truly incredible people live, learn, teach and play here - we would like to introduce you to a few of them.
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Yale professor Akhil Amar talks about why our Constitution has endured as long as it has.
He believes this is because of its ability to be amended. What amendment is most important to you and why?
CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal airs Tuesdays, May 7-28, 2013, 9 pm ET on PBS.
The World Economic Forum on Africa kicks off tomorrow in Cape Town, South Africa.
Yale’s Ian Shapiro (Sterling Professor of Political Science) will be on a panel about “Governance Best Practices” together with Malawi’s President Joyce Hilda Banda and African entrepreneur and philanthropist and Mo Ibrahim.
Watch the panel live at http://wef.ch/live at 11 am EDT on May 9th.
The first time the Supreme Court sided with freedom of speech was in 1930. What right is most important to you?
Yale Professor Akhil Amar talks about rights. Have we gone too far in claiming rights not enumerated in the Constitution? Or have we simply been following in the spirit of the document?
U.S Ambassador to China Gary F. Locke, a 1972 alumnus of Yale College, visits Yali Middle School in Changsha.
The Yale-China Association founded the school in 1906. The first Chinese-American to serve as U.S. Ambassador to China, he is one of many distinguished Yale alumni to serve as ambassadors to China in recent years.
SCOTUS and the Marriage Equality Cases
Yale Law School Professors Bruce Ackerman, William Eskridge, and Harold Koh all recently signed amicus briefs in support of the respondents in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which challenges California’s Proposition 8.
In this video, they discuss the cases before the High Court, describe the arguments made in their briefs, and weigh in on why this is an important moment for civil rights.
