Law - Lectures

It is possible to identify gendered disadvantage at almost every point in a migrant woman’s journey, physical and legal, from country of origin to country of destination, from admission to naturalization. The presentation by Dr. Catherine Briddick draws on this literature to examine whether rules that produce gendered disadvantage are open to challenge under the international legal regime charged with eradicating discrimination against women, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). For other videos in this series, please visit the Refugee Program Seminars playlist •RefugeeProgramSeminars or Refugee Program YouTube Channel /@refugeeprogramyalemacmilla3513 For more information and to learn more about the Yale Refugee Program, please visit Yale MacMillan Center Program on Refugees

In June 2009, a young American scaled the walls of the British Museum of Natural History, broke out a window, climbed inside, and stole a million dollars’ worth of dead birds - scientific specimens preserved over the centuries by a chain of curators who recognized that these birds held answers to questions that scientists hadn’t even considered. He stripped them of their tags (bearing information crucial to research), and then hacked them to bits with a scalpel, filling Ziploc bags with thousands of iridescent, glimmering feathers, which he sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars to the community of Victorian salmon fly-tiers. In 'The Feather Thief,' Kirk Wallace Johnson descends into this ‘feather underground,’ tracking down the missing birds across the world in a madcap quest for some kind of justice.

RESPECTING ALL CONNECTICUT FAMILIES: THE LEGAL PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP FOR UNMARRIED, SAME-SEX, AND NONBIOLOGICAL PARENTS. Who is a parent in Connecticut? The Connecticut Parentage Act, which came into effect in January 2022, is the most significant update to Connecticut’s parentage laws in decades. It ensures that all children in the state have equal access to the security of a legal parent-child relationship regardless of the circumstances of their birth or the marital status, gender, or sexual orientation of their parents. This Belonging at Yale event puts Douglas NeJaime, the Anne Urowsky Professor of Law, in conversation with Deborah Stanley-McAulay, Associate Vice President for Employee Engagement and Workplace Culture. Professor NeJaime was a principal drafter of the act. Kimberly Goff-Crews, Secretary and Vice President for University Life, introduces the event.