Associate U.S. Attorney General Addresses Equal Access at Liman Colloquium
At YLS on April 21, Associate U.S. Attorney General Vanita Gupta discussed newly issued Department of Justice guidance that takes a critical view of economic costs imposed by the courts.
Human Rights Lawyer to
Join Liman Center as
Senior Fellow in Residence
Pardiss Kebriaei, Senior Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, will be join Liman Center projects on solitary confinement and the varied costs of incarceration during the 2023-2024 year.
Expanding Options for
Mental Health Response
in Massachusetts
Medha Swaminathan '22 is a current
Liman Fellow working with the ACLU of Massachusetts in Boston to improve public health oversight in jails and to lessen the role of police in responding to mental health crises.
“Facing Life” Explores
Life Imprisonment and
Racial Injustice
In a spring symposium organized by the Law and Racial Justice Center, creators and subjects of the Visiting Room Project came to Yale to discuss the human toll of mass incarceration in Louisiana and Connecticut.
Jorge Barón '03, 2005 Liman Fellow, recently stepped down from his role at Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) after nearly 17 years with the organization (the last 15 as executive director). Jorge is now embarking on a new challenge: seeking elected office. He is running for a seat on the King County Council, the largest county in Washington State, which includes Seattle and surrounding regions. To learn more about his campaign, visit www.electjorgebaron.com.
Chesa Boudin'11, 2012 Liman Fellow,was recently named the founding executive director of Berkeley Law’s new Criminal Law & Justice Center. Eager to build on his work to transform the criminal legal system, the former San Francisco district attorney plans to "shed light on issues too often dominated by fear mongering and scare tactics rather than facts and law." Read announcement.
Natalia Friedlander '18, 2018 Liman Fellow,has returned to Yale Law School as a clinical teaching fellow with the Veterans Clinic.
Liman Center Director Jennifer Taylor '10, shared news that the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of her husband, Evan Milligan, and other plaintiffs in the Alabama voting rights case, Allen v. Milligan. On June 8, the Court affirmed a lower court decision that Alabama's newest Congressional maps dilute Black voters' influence and violate section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Alex Agosta, who began with the Liman Center in October 2022 as a temporary, part-time Center Coordinator, completed her term with us in late April. She contributed greatly to the success of this year's Colloquium and helped handle many tasks necessary to keep the Liman Center going. Thank you, Alex!
