Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor was a member of the Yale Law School Class of 1979 and an editor of The Yale Law Journal. If confirmed by the U.S Senate, she would be the Court’s first Hispanic justice and its third woman. Judge Sotomayor would also join two other Yale Law School graduates currently on the Court—Justice Clarence Thomas ’74 and former Journal editor Justice Samuel Alito ’75.
While a member of the Journal, Judge Sotomayor published a student Note, Statehood and the Equal Footing Doctrine: The Case for Puerto Rican Seabed Rights.
Written by The YLJ Online Committee, Wednesday, 13 May 2009
The Yale Law Journal is pleased to announce the launch of The Yale Law Journal Online in the Fall of 2009. YLJ Online will integrate the current features of The Pocket Part with additional fora for legal scholarship. The YLJ Online Committee will continue to consider submissions under The Pocket Part's guidelines and submissions system throughout the summer.
The Pocket Part is pleased to present an adapted version of Professor Fiss's lecture, The Example of America. For an audio version of this piece read by the author please access the podcast here. On May 12, 2009, Professor Fiss published an article based on this piece in The Huffington Post, which can be accessed here.
