The Liman Center has announced nine new law fellows for the 2023-2024 year, and two fellowship extensions. Since its founding in 1997, the Center has awarded fellowships
to more than 180 Yale Law School graduates to enable them to work for a year in the public interest.
The Liman Center has launched the online data dashboard Seeing Solitary website to create a route to data and resources for understanding the role that solitary confinement plays in U.S. prisons.
Two Fellows Discuss Public Interest Lawyering at the NAACP
Former Liman Fellow Joseph Schottenfeld ’19 and current Fellow Evan Walker-Wells ’22 recently answered questions about their work together at the NAACP General Counsel’s Office.
Kory DeClark '15, 2016-2017 Liman Fellow, has joined BraunHagey & Borden in San Francisco as an attorney with its Impact Practice, which aims to bring cases that make a sustained impact for underserved communities and causes.
Jessica Sager '99, 1999-2000 Liman Fellow, founder of All Our Kin and currently an Ashoka Fellow, is featured on a Welcome Changemakers session.
Molly Weston Williamson '13, 2014-2016 Liman Fellow, started as a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress in July, recently published several publications, including an op-ed in THINK that argues for paid sick time for working parents, and a fact sheet series that explains the three main kinds of laws that offer Americans rights when they need time off for health or caregiving needs.
Special Event
Bryan Stevenson, the Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and recent recipient of the National Humanities Medal, will speak on "The Costs of Punishment" on Thursday, April 20 at 4:10pm at the Law School Auditorium. Please RSVP.
Stevenson's talk will open the 26th annual Liman Colloquium, on "Budgeting for Justice: Fiscal Policy and Monetary Sanctions," which will take place April 20-22. For more information, visit the website.