Liman Center’s 28th Colloquium Explores
Safety and Insecurity
The lack of security that many people feel has shaped agendas, policies, and law. The 28th Annual Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law Colloquium, “Safety and Insecurity: Facets of a Complex Landscape,” was cohosted this spring by the Brennan Center at NYU Law School, the Fines and Fees Justice Center, and the Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law School. Participants gathered at Yale Law School explored questions about the safety of shared spaces, the reasons for widespread unease, and how to reframe decisions on the allocation of resources and build communities inclusive of people with all kinds of needs.
A panel hosted by the Quinnipiac University School of Law’s Center on Dispute Resolution and the Liman Center brought together immigration attorneys and advocates from across Connecticut to discuss the shifting landscape of U.S. immigration policy.
Open to the Yale University community Tuesday, September 16, 4-6 PM
Presidents' Room, Schwarzman Center, Yale University
Featuring the presentation of the Elga R. Wasserman Courage, Clarity, and Leadership Award to Judith Resnik, Liman Center Founding Director and Arthur Liman Professor of Law. Register here.
For the following events, please contact nicole.heyder@yale.edu for more information or to register.
The Price of Labor: Immigration and Organization
Open to the YLS community Wednesday, September 24, 12:10-1 PM
Cosponsored by the Tsai Leadership Program
Featuring Professor Muneer I. Ahmad, of the YLS Workers and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, Bhairavi Desai, founder of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and Ibrahim Diallo, Liman’s Senior Fellow in Residence.
THE STRIKE Screening and Discussion
Open to the Yale University and Quinnipiac School of Law communities Wednesday, October 15, 6:30-8:30 PM Cosponsored by the Quinnipiac School of Law's Center on Dispute Resolution, the Yale Investigative Reporting Lab, the Yale Prison Education Initiative, and the Tsai Leadership Program
A new documentary chronicles how thousands of incarcerated individuals at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison overcame decades of extreme solitary confinement practices by orchestrating the largest prison hunger strike in U.S. history. The screening will be followed by a discussion with JoeBill Muñoz, one of the directors, and Michael Saavedra, one of the strikers featured in the documentary.
YLS Alumni Weekend Liman Reception
Saturday, October 18, 3:45-5:45 PM
Liman Center Founding Director Judith Resnik and Executive Director Kate Braner invite you to a gathering with current and former Liman Fellows, other YLS alums, students, law professors, and public interest lawyers. We'll share refreshments and reflections on how to be generative in complex times. This year, we’re marking three milestones: Dean Heather Gerken’s contributions to public interest lawyering and YLS and her new role leading the Ford Foundation; former Liman Director Sarah Russell’s appointment to the federal bench in Connecticut; and Judith Resnik’s new book, “Impermissible Punishments: How Prisons Became a Problem for Democracy.” Introductions of those assembled and brief comments will be around 4:30 pm.
Liman News
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Benjamin Cover '09 has been promoted to Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law.
Katie Chamblee-Ryan ’12 published an op-ed in Slate about the politicization of the Department of Justice. Chamblee-Ryan has left DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to join the Elias Law Group as Counsel.
A New York Times op-ed, “How Underpaid Are W.N.B.A. Players? It’s Embarrassing,” by Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Goldin was published in part through collaboration with Erin D. Drake ’20, Women's National Basketball Players Association Senior Advisor and Legal Counsel, who first joined the WNBPA as a Liman Fellow in 2022.
Duncan Hosie '21, will join the Stanford Constitutional Law Center as an Academic Fellow.
Lindsay Nash ’10, has been promoted to Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Nash is also Co-Director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic.
