Laurent Fabius was chosen by President François Hollande to succeed to Jean-Louis Debré as President of the Constitutional Council. The change became effective on March 8, 2016. He is French Socialist politician who was appointed by President Mitterrand Prime Minister of France at the age of 37. He served from July 1984 to March 1986. Later, Fabius was President of the French National Assembly from 1988 to 1992, and from 1997 to 2000. He then served in the government as Minister of Finance from 2000 to 2002, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016. In this latest capacity, he chaired of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in Paris and ended with the Paris agreement on climate change. His way of mobilizing the whole French diplomacy in the two years preceding the conference and of engaging with all delegates to achieve a successful agreement, during it, has been praised around the world.
The Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship was established by former law clerks and friends in memory of Robert P. Anderson, B.A. 1927, LL.B. 1929, Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The Fellowship has been in existence for many years, but has been redefined with a new objective; “to bring distinguished appellate judges to the Yale Law School to speak on matters of general importance to law and society”.