Elizabeth Clarke

Visiting Lecturer in Law
(spring term)
Education

J.D., Yale Law School, 2023
B.A., Cornell University, 2017

Courses Taught
  • Imprisoned: Conception, Construction, Abolition, Alternatives (Liman Workshop)
  • Seeing Solitary: Directed Research in A Liman Center Project
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Elizabeth Clarke is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where she also serves as a Curtis-Liman Legal Fellow in partnership with the Office of the Federal Defender for the District of Connecticut. At Yale Law School, Clarke was previously a Research Assistant at the Justice Collaboratory and a member of the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic. She also completed internships at the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Appeals Bureau and the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s Capital Trial Unit. From 2018 to 2020, Clarke worked as a paralegal at Google. She received a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Cornell University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor at the Yale Law & Policy Review. Clarke co-authored a piece, “Designing an Americans with Abilities Act: Consciousness, Capabilities, and Civil Rights,” published by the Boston College Law Review in 2022.