Resnik and Jackson Honored for Federal Courts Scholarship
In January, Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik and Harvard Law Professor Vicki C. Jackson ’75 received the Association of American Law Schools' 2024 Daniel J. Meltzer Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of their teaching and scholarship.
February 21, Yale Law School, Room 128, or by Zoom
The Structural Silos of Carceral Health Care:
Patient-Prisoner's Rights and Wellbeing
This panel explores the quality of care from incarceration through supervised release
and thereafter. Panelists will discuss the lack of regulatory oversight, the role correctional officials play in shaping the services, delivery, and experiences of treatment in detention, and the constitutional and statutory obligations to provide care to incarcerated people.
SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Clarke '23, Curtis-Liman Fellow,
Federal Defenders Office for the District of CT, and Yale Law School Jaimie Meyer, Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine Angel Sanchez, YLS LLM '24 Kathryn Thomas, Post-Doctoral Fellow,
The Justice Collaboratory and SEICHE Center for Health and Justice
MODERATOR
Pardiss Kebriaei, Senior Liman Fellow in Residence
Non-pizza lunch provided. To attend in person or for Zoom link, Please RSVP today with D. Nicole Gehring.
For more information, contact Elizabeth Clarke.
Liman News
Jorge L. Barón ’06 was elected in November to the Metropolitan King County Council and began serving in this role on January 1, 2024. King County is the 13th largest county in the U.S. and home to 2.3 million people in and around Seattle, Washington. Barón is excited about this new opportunity after working for nearly 17 years at Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. He was also recently recognized by the Legal Foundation of Washington (LFW) with the Charles A. Goldmark Award, which recognizes the providers of civil legal aid whose work furthers the objectives of LFW by making a positive impact on the lives of low-income people.
Erin Drake ’24 is featured in the Women's National Basketball Players Association’s recently released documentary called Shattered Glass. The film details the experiences of three elite women basketball players and their struggle for respect, recognition, and appropriate compensation for their labor. Currently in her second year as a Liman Fellow with the WNBPA, Drake is a featured speaker in the documentary, which notes her Liman affiliation.Watch the documentary here.
Benjamin Plener Cover ’09was recently named the Allan G. Shephard Professor at the University of Idaho College of Law for the 2024-25 academic year. Cover also authored a chapter on Districting Criteria in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of American Election Law, and he is currently developing a research project on the First Amendment and efforts to restrict minors' access to library materials.
Grace Li, who was a Liman Fellow in Residence from 2021-2023, recently published the article, Associations in Prison, in the UC Irvine Law Review. Written during her time with the Liman Center, Li's article builds a conceptual framework of associations in prison, provides a typology of the organizations that exist in prisons today, and explores these associations' impacts and limitations in the fact of prison rules and regulations. Li said the article aims to show that broader associational jurisprudence can better protect fundamental aspects of associations by grappling with issues that arise in the unique context of incarceration.
On November 1, Margot Mendelson ’09 became Executive Director of the Prison Law Office in Berkeley, California.
Maya Menlo ’18, an attorney with the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office, successfully argued People v Poole before the Michigan Supreme Court in January. The case has been widely reported in Michigan and was also covered by the Associated Press.
In January, Elizabeth Pierson ’18was promoted to Staff Counsel at Law Forward, where she will continue to work on pro-democracy litigation on issues including ballot access, government accountability, redistricting, and more.
Megan Quattlebaum ’10, Director of the CSG Justice Center, has been invited to join the board of NRI starting in April. A nonprofit organization that leverages data and research to improve behavioral health services and outcomes, NRI has since 1987 been the only national organization working with state agencies, the Federal Government, and other entities to define, collect, and analyze data on public behavioral health systems.
After completing his Liman Fellowship with the NAACP, Evan Walker-Wells ’23 moved back to his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, and joined the NYC Public Housing Preservation Trust — a new and innovative effort to improve and preserve New York City’s large stock of affordable, public housing by working closely with residents. Walker-Wells describes the role as "an exciting way to be part of a different side of the work I was doing in fair housing and eviction prevention on my Liman Fellowship."
The 27th Annual Liman Colloquium Incarceration and Public Health April 4-5 | Yale Law School
Building on ongoing interdisciplinary work, the Colloquium will
host people working in law, medicine, public health, and economics
and focused on the relationship of detention to health.
For more information, contact Liman Center Director Jennifer Taylor.