Liman Law Fellowships

Ryanne Bamieh ’23, the incoming Resnik-Curtis Fellow, will join the Public Defender’s Office in Santa Barbara County. Her work will mix representing defendants accused of misdemeanors and helping criminal defendants develop pretrial release plans. Of special concern will be the challenges faced by people who do not have housing. Before coming to Law School, Bamieh received her B.A. in history from Stanford University, and served as a Peace Corps education volunteer in Comoros. At Yale, she was a Coker Fellow and a member of the Immigrant Rights and the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinics, and participated on Yale's Trial Advocacy Team. Bamieh is currently a law clerk for Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. 

Gregory Briker ’24 will join the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection in Washington, D.C., where he will focus on appellate litigation related to misconduct of law enforcement officials. The goal of his project is to prevent reversals of lower court decisions granting remedies to victims of unlawful excessive force. Briker received a B.A. in history from Harvard University. At Yale Law School, he was a member of the Housing Clinic and an Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He has authored articles about social movement litigation and civil rights history. 

Nathan Cummings ’23 will join the Shriver Center on Poverty Law in Chicago. His project focuses on supporting tenants leading efforts to improve living conditions in federally subsidized housing in Illinois. After earning an A.B. in history and literature from Harvard University, Cummings worked at a law firm that represented individuals with civil rights and wage and hour claims. While at Yale Law School, he spent five semesters as a member of the Community and Economic Development Clinic and served as a Forum Editor for the Yale Law Journal. He is currently a law clerk for Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Ibrahim Diallo, the 2024-25 Curtis-Liman Fellow, will co-teach the Liman Workshop, collaborate with the clinical program, and work at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Connecticut. Diallo graduated from Trinity College in 2011 with a B.A. in International Relations and from Columbia Law School in 2020. In law school, he was named a Lowenstein Public Interest Fellow, founded an externship program for law students to work with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), and won the Constance Baker Motley Prize, the Samuel I. Rosenman Prize for Academic Excellence in Public Law, and the Emil Schlesinger Labor Law Prize. After graduation, Diallo was a Staff Attorney with the NYTWA and clerked for Judge Victor Bolden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. He is currently clerking for Judge Susan Carney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Ellie Driscoll ’23, the incoming Meselson-Liman Fellow, will join the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs in Washington, D.C. to represent youth with disabilities who are drawn into the criminal legal system. Driscoll will represent individuals who are in detention or under other forms of supervision; she will help them protect their rights to transition services, and will combat punitive legislation that expands youth involvement with the criminal legal system. Driscoll earned a B.A. in politics and American studies from Brandeis University. At Yale Law School, she was a member of the Legal Assistance: Immigrant Rights Clinic and the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic. Driscoll currently serves as a clerk for Associate Judge Catharine Friend Easterly of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Jonathan Gibson ’24 will join the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center’s Supreme Court and Appellate Program in Washington, D.C. His project focuses on relying on state constitutions to limit the harms of solitary confinement. Gibson received a B.A. in American studies and computer science from Georgetown University. At Yale Law School, he has been a member of the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic. He also worked as an Executive Articles Editor for the Yale Law & Policy Review, a board member for the Green Haven Prison Project, a student volunteer with the Federal Capital Habeas Project, and a research assistant.

Danny Haidar ’24 will join the Michigan Attorney General’s office as an Assistant Attorney General to focus on issues related to the 2024 election. That work includes monitoring election-related legal disputes occurring throughout the state and assisting parties who seek to protect electoral processes. He will also support the local attorneys who represent election officials throughout the state. Haidar earned his B.A. in philosophy, political science, and linguistics from Columbia University. At Yale Law School, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law and Policy Review and a Coker Fellow.

Charlie Jiang ’24 will join the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) in Boston, Massachusetts, to enhance respect for the dignity of working-class Asian Americans, improve community safety, and combat structural racism. Jiang will represent people who have been attacked due to anti-Asian animus and contribute to legislative efforts to improve access to healthcare and other critical public services. Jiang received a B.S. in engineering physics from Stanford University. At Yale, he has been a member of the Community and Economic Development Clinic and an Articles Editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review.

Zoe Kreitenberg ’24 will serve at the ACLU of Massachusetts. Her project will seek to advance LGBTQ+ rights and free expression, especially for youth and students. She will conduct community outreach and aid litigation efforts to create safer, more inclusive communities and schools across Massachusetts. Prior to law school, Kreitenberg earned a B.S. in philosophy from West Point and led ballistic missile defense operations as a captain in the United States Army. At Yale, she is a Features Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law, a speechwriter, a research assistant, and a Ludwig Fellow.

Terin Patel-Wilson ’24 will join the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund’s Prepared to Vote and Voting Rights Defender team in New York. His project focuses on protecting voting rights for all and ensuring access to the vote for communities of color in the South. His work will involve a combination of engaging community groups, local and legislative advocacy, and litigation. Patel-Wilson received a B.S. in computer science from Yale College. In Law School, he has been a member of the Housing Clinic and the Technology Accountability and Competition Project.

Continuing Fellows

With substantial support from host organizations, the Liman Center is able to extend the fellowship term for five Fellows to continue their work for a second year.

Yael Caplan ’23, at Pregnancy Justice in New York, works to limit efforts to criminalize decisions around pregnancy. During her first year, she helped represent individuals facing criminal charges for reasons related to pregnancy, filed suit on behalf of a woman who experienced egregious medical neglect during her pregnancy in an Alabama jail, and wrote amicus briefs in several cases. In the coming year, Caplan will continue this work while exploring modes of affirmatively protecting the autonomy and choices of people who are pregnant. Caplan holds a B.A. in public policy and comparative human development from the University of Chicago. At Yale Law School, she was a member of the Veterans Legal Services Clinic and an Articles Editor for the Journal of Law and Feminism.

Juan Fernando Luna León ’23 supports workers with UNITE HERE Local 11 in Los Angeles. During his first year, he focused on enforcement of an L.A. municipal ordinance, enacted in June 2022, that provides protection for housekeepers facing sexual assault and harmed by unfair business practices. Luna León helped prepare a class action complaint alleging that a hotel failed to comply with the ordinance's safety provisions. He has also done outreach to inform workers on L.A.’s Skid Row of their rights in the workplace. In the coming year, Luna León will expand his outreach to workers at non-union hotels and join in advocacy to use the L.A. ordinance as a model elsewhere in California. Luna León earned a B.A. in history from Texas A&M University. At Yale Law School, he was a member of the Workers and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, where he helped represent local unions and families separated by the U.S. government.

Wynne Muscatine Graham ’22 will spend a second fellowship year at the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center’s Supreme Court and Appellate Program in Washington, D.C., where she has worked on appeals related to solitary confinement. In the coming year, she will focus on litigation in state courts as well as on efforts to obtain reforms of solitary confinement through administrative changes by corrections departments. Muscatine Graham received a B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University. At Yale Law School, she was a member of the Rule of Law Clinic and worked with the Liman Center on its 2021 report on solitary confinement, Time-In-Cell. Prior to her Liman fellowship, Muscatine Graham was a law clerk for Chief Judge David J. Barron of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Katie Roop ’23 will continue at The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Appeals Bureau in New York, where she has been helping individuals prepare for parole release determinations, drafting materials to enable attorneys and parole applicants to navigate the process, and representing people who are incarcerated in parole appeals. In contrast to many parole advocates focused on people with long-term or life sentences, Roop’s work in the coming year will focus on individuals with shorter sentences for whom fewer resources have been available. Roop earned a B.A. in political science and history from Washington University in St. Louis. At Yale Law School, she was a student director of the Strategic Advocacy Clinic and served on the Clinical Student Board and the board of the Civil Rights Project.

Rachel Talamo ’23 will continue her fellowship at Prisoners' Legal Services (PLS) of Massachusetts, where, through litigation, policy work, and organizing, she is contributing to efforts to establish independent and enforceable oversight over state prisons and jails. Her work has included class action litigation against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections for systemic brutality against people incarcerated at the state's maximum-security prison, as well as legislative coordination for a bill that would be the first in the nation to enforce its carceral oversight provisions through financial and personnel sanctions. In the upcoming year, Talamo will focus on litigation addressing harmful conditions of confinement and upholding the rights of individuals incarcerated in the state. Talamo earned a B.A. in American history and literature from Harvard in 2018. While at Yale Law School, she worked with Schell Center Executive Director Hope Metcalf to pass the PROTECT Act in partnership with Stop Solitary Connecticut. Talamo was also a member of the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic, a peer advocate, a National Lawyers Guild legal observer, and an Editor of the Proceedings of the Rebellious Lawyering Conference and the Journal of Law and Feminism. 

2023-2024

Russell Bogue, Office of the Solicitor General for the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.

Yael Caplan, Pregnancy Justice, New York, NY. 

Elizabeth Clarke, Curtis-Liman Fellow, Office of the Federal Defender for the District of Connecticut and Yale Law School, New Haven, CT

Zoe Li, Meselson Fellow, MacArthur Justice Center, Chicago, IL

Juan Fernando Luna León, UNITE HERE Local 11, Los Angeles, CA. 

Wynne Muscatine Graham, Resnik-Curtis Fellow, Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center’s Supreme Court and Appellate Program in Washington, D.C.

Katie Roop, The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Appeals Bureau in New York, NY

Rachel Talamo, Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

2022–2023 Fellowship Extensions

Erin D. Drake, Women’s National Basketball Players Association

Aseem Mehta, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, San Francisco, CA

2022–2023

Brendan Bernicker, Resnik-Curtis Fellow, Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center

Helia Bidad, Land Loss Prevention Project

Samuel Davis, ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation

Erin Drake, Women’s National Basketball Players Association

Hannah Duncan, Curtis-Liman Fellow, Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Connecticut

Grace Judge, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Flathead Reservation

Aseem Mehta, Meselson-Liman Fellow, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus

Medha Swaminathan, ACLU of Massachusetts

Chelsea Thompson, Gruber Fellow and Liman Affiliated Fellow, A Better Balance

Evan Walker-Wells, NAACP General Counsel’s Office in Atlanta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina

2021–2022 Fellowship Extensions

Sophie Angelis, Rights Behind Bars

Allison Durkin, Legal Aid Society of New York

Sophie Laing, Pine Tree Legal Assistance

Kshithij Shrinath, Bronx Defenders

2021–2022

Hannah Abelow, Queens Legal Services

Sophie Angelis, Rights Behind Bars

Jonathan Cohen (Resnik-Curtis Fellow), Rhode Island Center for Justice

Allison Durkin, The Legal Aid Society

Eli Feasley, Neighborhood Defender Service of Detroit

Duncan Hosie, ACLU

Sophie Laing, Pine Tree Legal Assistance

James Mooney, ACLU of Illinois

Isadora Ruyter-Harcourt, The Powell Project

Kshithij Shrinath (Meselson-Liman Fellow), The Bronx Defenders

2020–2021

Colin Antaya, Conservation Law Foundation

Josh Blecher-Cohen, ACLU of Illinois

Sam Frizell, Legal Aid Society of New York

Elise Grifka Wander, Office of the Ohio Public Defender

Nathan Leys, New Haven Legal Assistance Association

Kelley Schiffman, San Diego County Public Defender Office

Joseph Schottenfeld, NAACP

Mary Ella Simmons, Orleans Public Defenders

Alexander Wang (Curtis-Liman Clinical Fellow), Yale Law School

Megan Yan, ACLU of the District of Columbia

2019–2020

Tiffany Bailey, ACLU of Southern California

Catherine Chen, Medical-Legal Partnership Hawai’i

Diane de Gramont, National Center for Youth Law

Bassam Gergi, Fair Share Housing Center

John Giammatteo, Lutheran Social Services of New York's Immigration Legal Program

Diana Li Kim, Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services

Allison Morte, Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office

Alyssa Peterson, Center for Popular Democracy

Megha Ram, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center

Adam Rice, Office of the Attorney General of Colorado

2018–2019

Skylar Albertson, The Bail Project

Benjamin Alter, NAACP

Olevia Boykin, Civil Rights Corps

Natalia Friedlander, Rhode Island Center for Justice

Joanne Lee, Gulfcoast Legal Services

Maya Menlo, Washtenaw County Office of the Public Defender

Elizabeth Pierson, Legal Action of Wisconsin

Yenisey Rodriguez, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia

Yusuf Saei, Muslim Advocates

Theo Torres, Federal Defender Program for Northern District of Illinois

Henry Weaver, Earthjustice

2017–2018

Celina Aldape, D.C. Law Students in Court, DC

Ryan Cooper, Travis County Mental Health Public Defender, TX

Lynsey Gaudioso, Public Advocates in San Francisco, CA

Carly Levenson, Connecticut’s Division of Public Defender Services, CT

Hava Mirell, Office of Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, RI

Nathan Nash, Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing Chicago, IL

My Khanh Ngo, Office of the Alameda County Public Defender, CA

Rachel Shur, Orleans Public Defenders, LA

2016–2017

Anna Arkin-Gallagher, Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, New Orleans, LA

Caitlin Bellis, Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA

Dwayne Betts, New Haven Office of the Public Defender, CT

Kory DeClark ,San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, CA

Corey Guilmette, Public Defender Association, Seattle, CA

Jamelia Morgan, ACLU’s National Prison Project, Washington, DC

Freya Pitts, Disability Rights Advocates, Berkeley, CA

Devon Porter, ACLU of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Abigail Rich, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Berkeley, CA

Ryan Sakoda, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Boston, MA

Jonas Wang, Civil Rights Corps, Washington, DC

Mary Yanik,New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice, LA

2015–2016

Anna Arkin-Gallagher, Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, New Orleans, LA

Caitlin Bellis, Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA

Dana Montalto, Veterans Legal Clinic, Jamaica Plain, MA

Jamelia Morgan, ACLU’s National Prison Project, Washington, DC

Freya Pitts, Disability Rights Advocates, Berkeley, CA

Ryan Sakoda, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Boston, MA

Ruth Swift, Community Law Office, Birmingham, AL

Matthew Vogel, Capital Defense Unit at Orleans Public Defenders, New Orleans, LA

Adrien A. Weibgen, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY

Molly Weston, A Better Balance, New York, NY

Mary Yanik, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice, LA

2014–2015

Anna Arkin-Gallagher, Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, New Orleans, LA

Josh Bendor, ACLU of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ

Emily Gerrick, Texas Fair Defense Project, Austin, TX

Dana Montalto, Veterans Legal Clinic, Jamaica Plain, MA

Matthew Vogel, Orleans Public Defenders, New Orleans, LA

Jessica Vosburgh, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Birmingham, AL

Adrien A. Weibgen, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY

Molly Weston, A Better Balance, New York, NY

2013–2014

Spencer Amdur, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco, CA

Alyssa Briody, Juvenile Regional Services, New Orleans, LA

Burke Butler, Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX

Katie Chamblee, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA

Jeremy Kaplan-Lyman, Bronx Defenders, NY

Caitlin Mitchell, Youth, Rights & Justice, Portland, OR

Ivy Wang, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, New Orleans, LA

Alyssa Work, Bronx Freedom Fund, NY

2012–2013

Chesa Boudin, San Francisco Public Defender's Office, CA

Forrest Dunbar, Alaska Office of Public Advocacy, AK

Romy Ganschow, Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, NY

Edward McCarthy, Connecticut Office of the Public Defender, CT

Yaman Salahi, ACLU of Southern California, CA

Rebecca Scholtz, Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis, MN

Sirine Shebaya, ACLU of Maryland, MD

Olivia Sinaiko, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, MK

Jenny Zhao, ACLU of Northern California, CA

2011–2012

Robert Braun, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, New Orleans, LA

Isabel Bussarakum, The Defender Association, Seattle, WA

Elizabeth Compa, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA

Daniel E. Mulkoff, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY

Diala Shamas, Creating Law Enforcement Accountability, Flushing, NY

Emily Washington, Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, LA

Seth Wayne, Orleans Public Defenders, New Orleans, LA

2010–2011

Seth Atkinson, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC

Ady Barkan, Make the Road New York, Brooklyn, NY

Monica Bell, Legal Aid Society, DC

Lindsay Nash, Cardozo Immigration Clinic, New York, NY

Megan Quattlebaum, Neighborhood Legal Services Association, Pittsburgh, PA

Elizabeth Guild Simpson, Southern Coalition for Social Justice Durham, NC

Adrienna Wong, ACLU of Texas, Austin, TX

2009–2010

Alicia Bannon, Brennan Center for Justice, NY

Josh Berman, Natural Resources Defense Council, Chicago, IL

Rebecca Engel, Bronx Defenders, NY

Jean C. Han , Ayuda, Washington, DC

Kathy Hunt Muse, New York Civil Liberties Union, NY

Sonia Kumar, ACLU of Maryland, MD

Margot Mendelson, University of Arizona, Tuscon; Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC

Kirill Penteshin, UNITE HERE Local 11, Los Angeles, CA

Benjamin Plener, Orleans Public Defenders, New Orlean, LA

Vasudha Talla, Sanctuary for Families, NY

2008–2009

Justin Cox, CASA of Maryland, Silver Spring, MD

Zahra Hayat, National Center for Youth Law, Oakland, CA

Stacie Jonas, Southern Migrant Legal Services, Nashville, TN

Deborah Marcuse, Office of the Mayor, New Haven, CT

Allegra McLeod, Immigration Justice Project, San Diego, CA

Marisol Orihuela, ACLU of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Michael Tan, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, New York, NY

Tianna Terry, Legal Aid Society, DC

2007–2008

Stephanie Biedermann, Disability Rights Advocates, Berkeley, CA

Jamie Dycus, ACLU Racial Justice Program, NY

Leah Fletcher, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA

Dan Freeman, NY Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY

Raquiba Huq, Legal Services of New Jersey, Edison, NJ

Michael Kavey, Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, New York, NY

Sia Sanneh, Legal Action Center, New York, NY

2006–2007

Alice Clapman, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, New York, NY

Sameera Fazili, Northern Initiatives, Chicago, IL

Paige Herwig, National Women’s Law Center, Washington, DC

Anna Rich, National Senior Citizens’ Law Office, Oakland, CA

Larry Schwartztol, Brennan Center for Justice, New York

Marc Silverman, Advocates for Children, New York, NY

Charisa Smith (’05), JustChildren, Richmond, VA

2005–2006

Jorge Baron, New Haven Legal Assistance Association, New Haven, CT

Kim Pattillo Brownson, ACLU of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Eliza Leighton, CASA of Maryland, Silver Spring, MD

Holly Thomas, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, NY

Sofia Yakren, Urban Justice Center, NY

2004–2005

Joshua Civin, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Washington, DC

Cyd Fremmer, EdLaw Project, Boston, MA

Robert Hoo, Legal Services of Northern California, Sacramento, CA

Tom Jawetz, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, DC

Lisa Powell, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle, WA

2003–2004

Adam Grumbach, Legal Aid Society OF New York, NY

Kristen Jackson, Public Counsel Law Center, Los Angeles, CA

Grace Meng, Asian Law Caucus, San Francisco, CA

McGregor Smyth, Bronx Defenders, NY

2002–2003

Tania Galloni, Migrant Farmworker Justice Project, FL

Andrea Marsh, Texas Rural Legal Aid, Austin, TX

David Menschel, Innocence Project, Cardozo School of Law, NY

Amy Meselson, Legal Aid Society of New York, NY

2001–2002

Susan Hazeldean, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY

Serena Hoy, Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, Washington, DC

Joseph Luby, Public Interest Litigation Clinic, Missouri, MO

2000–2001

Marjorie Allard, Alaska Public Defender Agency, Anchorage, AK

Rebecca Bernhardt, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of Texas, San Antonio, TX

Kenneth Sugarman, ACLU of Northern California, San Francisco, CA

1999–2000

Paula Gaber, Western Center on Law & Poverty, Los Angeles, CA

Juliet McKenna, Lawyers for Children America, Washington, DC

Jessica Sager, All Our Kin, New Haven, CT

1998–1999

Lisa Daugaard, Seattle Defender Association, WA

Julia Greenfield, The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco, CA

Douglas Stevick, Texas Rural Legal Aid, San Antonio, TX

1997–1998

Alison Hirschel, Arthur Liman Project on Advocacy for the Institutionalized Elderly, Ann Arbor, MI

Pardiss Kebriaei (2023–2024) As a Senior Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Kebriaei has worked on issues of civil and human rights for more than 20 years. For the past 10 years, her work has turned increasingly toward domestic prisons, including challenges to end solitary confinement and other inhumane conditions and sentences, including life sentences. Kebriaei’s commentary and scholarship on human rights and incarceration have appeared in magazines and journals including Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and the Yale Law & Policy Review and in the book Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict: Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications (University of Chicago Press, 2015). At the Liman Center, her research will include interdisciplinary work on the individual and collective health impacts of mass incarceration in the U.S. She will also contribute to Liman Center research and public education projects on solitary confinement and co-teach the Spring 2024 Liman Workshop.

Laura Fernandez ’02 (2014–) does research that focuses on questions of prosecutorial power, ethics, and accountability. Before joining Yale Law School, she was Senior Counsel at Holland & Knight, LLP, where she worked as a fulltime member of the Community Services Team. She also clerked for the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York, and was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown Law Center, from which she obtained her LL.M. Fernandez is currently a Clinical Lecturer in Law and Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School.

Grace Li (2021–2023) has worked on a variety of projects since joining the Liman Center in 2021. She has co-taught the Liman Workshop, Imprisoned: From Construction to Abolition, supervised students making a Freedom of Information Act request related to the federal Bureau of Prison’s release to home confinement of individuals at risk of COVID, and contributed to the 2022 solitary confinement report and the development of a new digital dashboard, Seeing Solitary.

Brian Highsmith ’17 (2020–2022) remains an affiliate of the Liman Center. He has been central to the Center’s organization of a series of webinars on Fines, Fees, and Government Funding, which aim to bring together experts in public finance and in monetary sanctions to remedy the unjust use of money as punishment. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University, and serving as a Fellow in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Highsmith is also centrally involved in planning the April 2023 Liman Colloquium, Budgeting for Justice.

Jonathan Petkun ’19 (2020–2022) worked with Prof. Judith Resnik to explore how publicly available data can shed light on the structure and practices of the federal courts, and how data collection and dissemination could be improved to advance this understanding. Petkun is especially interested in how the legal and economic organization of large public institutions in the U.S.—particularly the military and state and federal courts—affect the lives of individuals who participate in them. Still an affiliate of the Liman Center, he is now an Associate Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

Zal Shroff (2020–2021) was central to the Liman Center’s efforts to get information to detainees in Connecticut about their eligibility to vote and to get their ballots counted. He was also one of the supervisors for clinical students in the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic. That work helped to obtain home confinement for people held at Danbury and to implement the settlement of a class action lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Prisons’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He also worked on analyzing data on the use of solitary confinement. He is currently a Senior Staff Attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay area.

Alexandra Harrington ’14 (2018–2020) supervised students working on projects related to criminal justice reform and co-taught the Liman Workshop. Prior to the Liman Center, she worked at the Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services in the Innocence Project/Post-Conviction Unit, where she helped to shape and coordinate the Division’s representation of individuals who were sentenced as juveniles in adult court to lengthy prison terms. Her work grew out of a law school project with the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic advocating for fair sentencing and second-look review for these individuals. Harrington is an Associate Professor, Director of the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic, and Director of the Innocence and Justice Project at the University at Buffalo School of Law.

Kristen Bell (2016–2018) collaborated with faculty, directors of state prison systems, and students to research the number of people held in solitary confinement as a Senior Liman Fellow in Residence. She also structured and supervised student research projects related to criminal law; cotaught a seminar on imprisonment, fines, and fees; and was an active participant in the biweekly Legal Theory Workshop. Prior to her fellowship, as a student at Stanford Law School, she interned at the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, taught seminars on mass incarceration at a state prison, and participated in the Three Strikes Project and Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. She is now currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law.

Sarah Baumgartel (2015–2016) helped supervise the early stages of the Criminal Justice Clinic’s parole study when she was the Senior Liman Fellow in Residence. The clinic had undertaken this study as part of the governor’s Second Chance Society initiative, which was aimed at reforming the state’s criminal justice system and reducing the prison population. Prior to her fellowship, she was an Assistant Federal Defender with the Federal Defenders of New York. She was also a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School from 2014 to 2015. Baumgartel is currently an attorney with Federal Defenders of New York.

Megan Quattlebaum ’10 (2013–2014), who had also been a Liman Law Fellow, focused on prisons and the criminal justice system as a Senior Liman Fellow in Residence. Quattlebaum co-taught the Liman Workshop and supervised students in the Liman Practicum. Projects included research on the regulation of long-term isolation in prisons and gender disparities in the federal correctional system. As a Liman Fellow in 2010, Quattlebaum worked at the Neighborhood Legal Services Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she developed and implemented a program to provide civil legal services for people with criminal records. Quattlebaum is currently the Director of the Council of State Governments Justice Center in New York City.

Sia Sanneh ’07 (2011–2013) continued to work on Doherty’s project examining how state ethics regimes might be applied to address instances of documented prosecutorial misconduct. She supervised students undertaking a survey of the regulation of long-term isolation in the fifty states and the federal prison system. She also worked on a project addressing the parental rights of incarcerated women in Connecticut. Students produced a self-help manual that explained state policies and how the family law system works. Prior to that, as a Liman Fellow in 2007, she studied the collateral consequences of school-based arrests. Sanneh is currently a Senior Attorney at Equal Justice Initiative, in Montgomery, Alabama.

Nina Rabin ’03 (2012–2013) helped teach the workshop Crime and Migration, which analyzed the treatment of noncitizens in the criminal justice system, the extent to which immigrations violations are and should be treated as criminal violations, and the degree to which the form and function of our immigration and criminal justice systems are separate versus intertwined. She also co-taught a workshop exploring the concept of borders and how, in various contexts, law, political orders, and social movements construct, invoke, rely on, and relax borders. Rabin is the Director of the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic at UCLA Law.

Fiona Doherty ’99 (2011) was the first Senior Liman Fellow in Residence. With support from the Vital Projects Fund, she joined the Liman Program in the spring semester of 2011 to expand work related to the criminal justice system. Doherty explored the nature of probation conditions and the proportionality of sanctions for violations. She also examined another set of questions related to how classification, punishment, and grievance mechanisms work within prisons, and how students and faculty might contribute to improving those processes. In conjunction with current and former Fellows, she considered how to address administrative segregation, supermax, and death row. Doherty is currently Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School.

Elizabeth Clarke ’23, (2023-2024) will be based at the Office of the Federal Defender for the District of Connecticut and Yale Law School. Clarke will focus on reducing the harms associated with federal supervised release for vulnerable populations, including individuals with substance use and mental health challenges. As part of her partnership with the Liman Center, Clarke will supervise students working on research and policy advocacy projects related to community supervision. Clarke received a B.A. in psychology from Cornell University. At Yale Law School, she was a research assistant at The Justice Collaboratory and a member of the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic.

Hannah Duncan ’21 (2022–2023) began working with the Federal Defender's Office in New Haven in September 2022. In that role, she supports clients serving terms of supervised release and probation so as to understand their experiences and what changes in law and practice would limit the potential return to incarceration. Duncan is developing a database of reentry services for justice-involved individuals in Connecticut and evaluating the constitutionality of conditions of release. In the spring, she will supervise law students in this work and join in teaching the Liman Workshop and in other programs.

Skylar Albertson ’18 (2021–2022), who was also a former Liman Law Fellow, spent a year working with Prof. Fiona Doherty in YLS’s Criminal Defense Clinic, supervising clinic students, representing clients at parole hearings, and expanding criminal defense education in LSO. Albertson was central in researching and writing the 2022 edition of the Correctional Leadership Association and Liman Center report on solitary confinement, as well as in the development of a new website to increase public access to data from that report as well as prior editions.

Alex Wang ’19 (2020–2021), the inaugural Curtis-Liman Fellow, worked closely with Prof. Lucas Guttentag on tracking and documenting changes in immigration policy that took place between 2017–2021 as well as measuring their impact. He also provided vital assistance to a Liman Center project to increase access to voting for people in Connecticut jails and prisons.