The Liman Center is delighted to inaugurate the Malone-Liman Fellowship, newly created to support law school graduates enabling individuals to have better access to legal remedies. This fellowship comes because of the generosity of Patrick Malone ’84 and his spouse, Vicki Neighbors Malone.
This year’s fellows will focus on an array of issues, including protecting tenants, workers, immigrants, members of Indian tribes, criminal defendants, and imprisoned people, and addressing housing insecurity, non-discrimination, criminal law enforcement, and equality.
Panelists Explain Why Immigration and Labor Policy Always Connected
At a discussion hosted by the Liman Center and the Center on Dispute Resolution, Quinnipiac University School of Law, panelists explored how legal gaps and enforcement challenges — just as changes in the federal government were starting — affected immigrant and non-immigrant workers across a range of industries.
Liman Research Helps Informs Proposed Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Supervised Release
The U.S. Sentencing Commission's proposed federal sentencing guidelines on supervised release reflect research and recommendations submitted by the Liman Center during a public comment period this spring.
Hannah Abelow ’21 has taken a position with the Community Economic Defense Project in Denver, Colorado, where she will serve as Supervisor for Affirmative Homeowner Litigation.
Emily Lemiska joins Liman as Director of Communications. Emily previously served as Yale School of Medicine’s Director of Communications for the federal Emergency Medical Services for Children Program.
Ryan Sakoda ’12 will join the faculty at UC Berkeley Law as an Assistant Professor of Law this coming academic year.
Rachel Talamo ’23, an attorney and Liman Fellow with Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts, helped to file a federal class action challenging a local sheriff's refusal to provide Hepatitis C medication to people in custody. In addition, in the lawsuit, Diggs v. Mici, on which she worked, a federal District Court has preliminarily approved a nearly $7 million settlement that entails important changes in the practices of the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
