Kenji Yoshino

So it has really an egalitarian effect to quickly or categorically say, let's all embrace the melting pot ideal, because some people are much more comfortable with that ideal because they've shaped that ideal than the others who are being told to melt into it.

I really lean on my wonderful colleagues at the management consultancy Deloitte for the empirical work on this. But I got the kind of call that, you know, I think most academics are kind of gobsmacked to receive sometime in 2012, where they said, look, like this idea of covering is a game changer.

I really lean on my wonderful colleagues at the management consultancy Deloitte for the empirical work on this. But I got the kind of call that, you know, I think most academics are kind of gobsmacked to receive sometime in 2012, where they said, look, like this idea of covering is a game changer.

I really lean on my wonderful colleagues at the management consultancy Deloitte for the empirical work on this. But I got the kind of call that, you know, I think most academics are kind of gobsmacked to receive sometime in 2012, where they said, look, like this idea of covering is a game changer.

but no one in our world is going to believe anything that you say unless you have data you're not an empiricist we are so let's do a survey and figure out you know what the incidence impact of covering is and so i of course said yes the survey came back to robustly support the hypothesis that people were covering at a very high rate we found 61 of people overall reported covering and of that 61 percent

but no one in our world is going to believe anything that you say unless you have data you're not an empiricist we are so let's do a survey and figure out you know what the incidence impact of covering is and so i of course said yes the survey came back to robustly support the hypothesis that people were covering at a very high rate we found 61 of people overall reported covering and of that 61 percent

but no one in our world is going to believe anything that you say unless you have data you're not an empiricist we are so let's do a survey and figure out you know what the incidence impact of covering is and so i of course said yes the survey came back to robustly support the hypothesis that people were covering at a very high rate we found 61 of people overall reported covering and of that 61 percent

60 to 73%, depending on the axis of covering, said that this was somewhat to extremely detrimental to their sense of self.

60 to 73%, depending on the axis of covering, said that this was somewhat to extremely detrimental to their sense of self.

60 to 73%, depending on the axis of covering, said that this was somewhat to extremely detrimental to their sense of self.

This comes from 2008 and it's actually one of my favorite stories to tell because I think it ennobles everybody who took part in it or honors everybody who took part in it because it's a story of change and growth. So in 2008, my husband and I are thinking about starting a family and we decide that we need to be in the same city to do that.

This comes from 2008 and it's actually one of my favorite stories to tell because I think it ennobles everybody who took part in it or honors everybody who took part in it because it's a story of change and growth. So in 2008, my husband and I are thinking about starting a family and we decide that we need to be in the same city to do that.

This comes from 2008 and it's actually one of my favorite stories to tell because I think it ennobles everybody who took part in it or honors everybody who took part in it because it's a story of change and growth. So in 2008, my husband and I are thinking about starting a family and we decide that we need to be in the same city to do that.

So I applied to schools in New York, was fortunate enough to get some offers, and then the recruitment season began. So the then dean of NYU, Ricky Rivez, reached out to me and he said, we know you have a chair at Yale that's very dear to you, which is Guido Calabresi Professorship of Law.

So I applied to schools in New York, was fortunate enough to get some offers, and then the recruitment season began. So the then dean of NYU, Ricky Rivez, reached out to me and he said, we know you have a chair at Yale that's very dear to you, which is Guido Calabresi Professorship of Law.

So I applied to schools in New York, was fortunate enough to get some offers, and then the recruitment season began. So the then dean of NYU, Ricky Rivez, reached out to me and he said, we know you have a chair at Yale that's very dear to you, which is Guido Calabresi Professorship of Law.

It was named after the judge for whom I clerked on the Second Circuit and the former dean of the law school and a great mentor of mine. Not, by the way, the mentor who gave me that advice. And then he said, we've scoured our existing chairs to find one that would be comparable in terms of its significance to you. We couldn't find one.

It was named after the judge for whom I clerked on the Second Circuit and the former dean of the law school and a great mentor of mine. Not, by the way, the mentor who gave me that advice. And then he said, we've scoured our existing chairs to find one that would be comparable in terms of its significance to you. We couldn't find one.

It was named after the judge for whom I clerked on the Second Circuit and the former dean of the law school and a great mentor of mine. Not, by the way, the mentor who gave me that advice. And then he said, we've scoured our existing chairs to find one that would be comparable in terms of its significance to you. We couldn't find one.

And so we took the extraordinary step of raising $5 million to endow a new chair. And that chair is going to be named to honor your contributions at the intersection of constitutional law and civil rights. And we're going to name it the Earl Warren Professorship of Constitutional Law.