Police car at night

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Panel Highlights Community Safety as a Public Health Issue

The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop brought together three experts for “Decentering Police in Public Safety: Violence Intervention in New Haven and Beyond.”

Professor Judith Resnik standing before a chalkboard

Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik speaks at the conference honoring the 40th anniversary of her influential paper “Managerial Judges.”

Monday, November 14, 2022

Conference Celebrates Professor Judith Resnik’s “Managerial Judges”

A conference at Yale Law School looked back at “Managerial Judges,” a groundbreaking paper by Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik, 40 years later.

Friday, November 4, 2022

Justice Sotomayor to Deliver Virtual Address at Law School Conference

Yale Daily News

The Yale Daily News previews a virtual appearance by Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’79 at the conference honoring the 40th anniversary of Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik’s article “Managerial Judges.” 

A group of panelists seated at a table before a blank screen, rows of audience members in theater seating

The symposium Incarceration and Imagination explored writing inside and outside of prison walls.

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Symposium Explores Incarceration and the Human Mind 

The Incarceration and Imagination symposium brought together scholars, activists, artists, writers, students, and the public to explore the realities of incarceration, its narratives, and the literature and social movements that surround it.

Forrest Dunbar ’12, standing behind the speakers' table, holds a gavel.

Forrest Dunbar ’12 holds the gavel during his first of two stints as Chair of the Anchorage Assembly.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Q&A: Liman Fellow Forrest Dunbar ’12 on Entering Politics

Forrest Dunbar ’12, a 2012 Liman Fellow and current member of the Anchorage Assembly and Alaska State Senate candidate, discusses how he got into politics.

A group of people stand together for a photo at the front of the auditorium.

Members of the show Echoes of Attica (from left) Jason Torello. Dario Peña, Dinny Aletheiani, BL Shirelle, Simply Naomi, Carlos Roche, Ronald Jenkins, and Eddie Torres, with Kayla Vinson, Executive Director of the Law and Racial Justice Center, and Jennifer Taylor ’10, Director of the Liman Center

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Echoes of Attica Brings 1971 Prison Uprising to Life

The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law recently co-hosted Echoes of Attica, a performance that tells the story of the 1971 prison massacre, one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

Thursday, September 15, 2022

New Data Show How Often Alabama Uses Solitary Confinement

WBHM

Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik comments in a news story about the use of solitary confinement in Alabama, where roughly five percent of prisoners are housed in solitary confinement for more than 15 days a year.

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Solitary Confinement Is Torture. U.S. Prisons Should Stop Using It.

The Washington Post

An editorial cites a report co-authored by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law showing that the use of solitary is confinement is declining in U.S. prisons, but a significant number of people are still kept in isolation.

Liman fellows and colloquium attendees, a group of about 100 people, standing in a courtyard

Attendees of the 2022 Liman Public Interest Colloquium — a group that includes former Liman Fellows from around the country — gather at Yale Law School. Liman Center Director Jennifer Taylor ’10 has a goal to connect and build relationships with Liman’s network of alumni and Fellows, which now spans 25 years.

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Q&A: Liman Center Director Jennifer Taylor on Building Community

Jennifer Taylor ’10, the new Director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, discusses what brought her back to Yale Law School and her plans to connect with the Liman network.

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

California May Be 1st to Ban Solo Confinement for Immigrants

The Associated Press

Reporting on California’s ban on solitary confinement in immigrant detention centers, A.P. cites the Liman Center’s report on solitary confinement.

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