Judith Resnik
Arthur Liman Professor of Law
(on leave, fall 2022)
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches about federalism, procedure, courts, prisons, equality, and citizenship.
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Contact Information
- Room M43
- 203-432-1447
- judith.resnik@yale.edu
Faculty Assistant
Pamela Ortiz
- J45
- 203-432-7740
- pamela.ortiz@yale.edu
Education & Curriculum Vitae
J.D., New York University School of Law, 1975
B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1972
Courses Taught
- Federal and State Courts
- Liman Project
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Founding Director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law. She teaches courses on federalism, procedure, courts, prisons, equality, and citizenship. Her scholarship focuses on the relationship of democratic values to government services such as courts, prisons, and post offices; the role of collective redress and class actions; contemporary conflicts over privatization; the relationships of states to citizens and non-citizens; the interaction among federal, state, and tribal courts and the forms and norms of federalism; practices of punishment; and equality and gender.
In the fall of 2022, Yale Law School hosted a conference to mark the anniversary of Judith Resnik’s first law review article, Managerial Judges, published in the Harvard Law Review in 1982 and analyzing transformations in the role of judges; the 2022 convening centered on contemporary challenges faced by people seeking legal remedies and the need to reconfigure court processes. That fall, the Liman Center also published new data on the use of solitary confinement in prison systems in the United States.
In 2018, Resnik received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a two-year award to enable her to complete research for her forthcoming book, Impermissible Punishments. The book explores the role played by incarcerated individuals in reconceiving the boundaries of state punishment and the impact of the 1960s civil rights revolution on the kinds of punishments that governments can and should impose on people convicted of crimes. In 2018, she also was awarded an honorary doctorate from University College London, and that year, Resnik was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, in Luxembourg.
Resnik's books include Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms (with Dennis Curtis, Yale University Press, 2011); Federal Courts Stories (co-edited with Vicki C. Jackson, Foundation Press, 2010); and Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender (co-edited with Seyla Benhabib, NYU, 2009). In 2014, Resnik was the co-editor (with Linda Greenhouse) of the Daedalus volume, The Invention of Courts, published in 2014.
Recent book chapters include Class in Courts: Incomplete Equality’s Challenges for the Legitimacy of Procedural Systems in A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro, and Elizabeth Porter, eds., 2022). Constituting a Civil Legal System Called “Just”: Law, Money, Power, and Publicity, in New Pathways to Civil Justice in Europe (Xandra Kramer, Alexandre Biard, Jos Hoevenaars, and Erlis Themeli, eds., Springer, 2021); Not Isolating Isolation, in Solitary Confinement: History, Effects, and Pathways to Reform (Jules Lobel and Peter Scharff-Smith, eds., Oxford University Press, 2020); Judicial Methods of Mediating Conflicts: Recognizing and Accommodating Differences in Pluralist Legal Regimes in Judicial Power: How Constitutional Courts Affect Political Transformations (Christine Landfried, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2019); The Functions of Publicity and of Privatization in Courts and Their Replacements (from Jeremy Bentham to #MeToo and Google Spain) in Open Justice: The Role of Courts in a Democratic Society (Burkhard Hess and Ana Koprivica, eds., Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg, Nomos, 2019); and Courts and Economic and Social Rights/Courts as Economic and Social Rights, in The Future of Economic and Social Rights (Katharine G. Young, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Some of Resnik’s recent articles are Representing What? Gender, Race, Class, and the Struggle for the Identity and the Legitimacy of Courts in Law and Ethics of Human Rights (forthcoming 2021); Punishment in Prison: Constituting the “Normal” and the “Atypical” in Solitary and Other Forms of Confinement (co-authored), 115 Northwestern Law Review 45 (2020); (Un)Constitutional Punishments: Eighth Amendment Silos, Penological Purposes, and People’s “Ruin,” 129 Yale Law Journal Forum 365 (2020); and Collective Preclusion and Inaccessible Arbitration: Data, Non-Disclosure, and Public Knowledge (co-authored), 24 Lewis & Clark Law Review 611 (2020).
From 2012-2022, Resnik chaired Yale Law School’s Global Constitutional Law Seminar, a part of the Gruber Program on Global Justice and Women’s Rights. This annual private seminar brought together a small number of jurists from around the world to discuss the challenges of constitutional adjudication. Since 2012 when she became the chair, Resnik edited the volumes of readings, available without charge as e-books, and the series includes Weighing Judicial Authority (2022) and Urgency and Legitimacy (2021).
Resnik founded Yale’s Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, which supports one-year fellowships for Yale Law School graduates as well as summer fellowships for students at Barnard, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Harvard, Princeton, Spelman, Stanford, and Yale. From its inception in 1997 through 2022, more than 170 graduates of Yale Law School have held Liman fellowships. Each year, the Liman Center sponsors colloquia and teaches seminars on the civil and criminal legal systems. Students and faculty in the Liman Center also do targeted research to provide new empirical insights into the impact of incarceration and the challenges of the legal system for individuals with limited resources. For example, the Liman Center has joined with the organization of the directors of all the prisons systems, now called Correctional Leaders Association (CLA) and formerly called the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA), in a series of reports on solitary confinement, in which prisoners are held on average for 22 hours or more in their cells, for 15 days or longer. In 2013, that collaboration focused on the rules governing placement in isolation; a review of fifty states documented that corrections policies made it easy to place an individual in solitary confinement and focused little on insuring release from such segregation. In 2015, ASCA and the Liman Center co-authored Time-in-Cell: The ASCA-Liman 2014 National Survey of Administrative Segregation in Prison. The report was the first to provide information on both the numbers of people held in isolation (then estimated to be 80,000 to 100,000) and the conditions under which they live.
Follow-up surveys provide a unique longitudinal database on the use of what correctional officials call “restrictive housing.” The reports include Aiming to Reduce Time-In-Cell: Reports from Correctional Systems on the Numbers of Prisoners in Restricted Housing and on the Potential of Policy Changes to Bring About Reforms (2016); Rethinking Death Row (2016); Reforming Restrictive Housing: The 2018 ASCA-Liman Nationwide Survey of Time-in-Cell, and its companion volume, Working to Limit Restrictive Housing: Efforts in Four Jurisdictions to Make Changes, both published in 2018, Time-in-Cell 2019: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing. The volume, Time-in-Cell 2019, reported that as of the summer of 2019, an estimated 55,000 to 62,500 prisoners in the United States were held in isolation for an average of 22 hours a day for 15 days. Almost 3,000 people — or 11% of all the people for which statistics were provided — were kept in solitary confinement for more than three years. The volume published in 2022 is Time-in-Cell 2021: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems. These reports have also identified a significant shift in governing policies and legislative action. Once, prison administrators saw solitary as the solution to disciplinary issues in prison. Today, many prison leaders are joining in the national and international view that solitary is itself a problem to be solved through abolition or substantial limitations on its use.
Other projects of the Liman Center include researching the challenges that women face while incarcerated. In February of 2019, Resnik joined many other witnesses to testify before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights at its hearing on women in prison. The Commission’s report is Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars (February 2020). The Liman Center also has several initiatives focused on economic injustice and the courts. Resnik chaired the 2018 Colloquium, Who Pays: Fines, Fees, Bail, and the Cost of Courts, and co-taught the 2018 Liman workshop, Rationing Access to Justice in Democracies. The 2019 Liman seminar, Poverty and the Courts: Fines, Fees, Bail, and Collective Redress, continued to explore these issues, as did the 2019 Colloquium, Economic Injustice: Courts, Law Schools, and Institutionalizing Reforms, which focused on how to bring the economics of court services and the needs of courts and litigants into the mainstream of legal education. The topic of the 2020 Colloquium was After Ferguson: Money and Punishment, Circa 2020. Much of this work is in partnership with the Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC Berkeley and the Fines and Fees Justice Center and is supported by Arnold Ventures. The series of e-books include Who Pays: Fines, Fees, Bail, and the Cost of Courts (2017); Ability to Pay (2019), Fees, Fines, and the Funding of Public Services: A Curriculum for Reform (2020) and Money and Punishment (2020).
Resnik is a member of national and international organizations dedicated to law, courts, and social justice. She has been the Chair of the Section on Law and the Humanities of the American Association of Law Schools, as well as of the Sections on Procedure, on Federal Courts, and on Women in Legal Education. She is a Managerial Trustee of the International Association of Women Judges. Resnik served as a founder and, for more than a decade, as a co-chair of Yale University’s Women Faculty Forum, begun in 2001. She remains on its steering committee.
Resnik is also an occasional litigator. She argued Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter, decided in 2009 by the United States Supreme Court, and in the 1987 case about admission of women to the Rotary Club. She also regularly files amici briefs in areas related to her expertise. In the wake of COVID-19, Resnik submitted declarations to several courts in which she outlined the authority of the courts to protect the health and safety of prisoners. In the statement, she described the availability of a provisional remedy known as enlargement and available to judges responding to COVID-19 litigation by “enlarging” the place of an incarcerated person’s custody from a particular prison to another setting, such as home or a halfway house. Resnik has also submitted amicus briefs related to judicial power, and she has testified before Congress, before rulemaking committees of the federal judiciary, and before the House of Commons of Canada.
From 2014 to 2016, Resnik was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, travelling to various liberal arts colleges in the United States. In 2015, she was a visiting professor at Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, to which she returned in 2020; she is also an honorary visiting professor at University College London. In 2016 she was a visiting professor at Dauphine Université Paris.
In 1998, Resnik was the recipient of the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the Commission on Women of the American Bar Association. In 2001, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2002, she became a member of the American Philosophical Society, where she delivered the Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture in 2005. In 2022 she chaired a symposium entitled Incarceration, and presented her paper, Punishment in Polities, Democratic and Not.
In 2008, Resnik was named Outstanding Scholar of the Year by the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. In 2010, she received the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Prize, awarded to outstanding faculty in higher education in the fields of psychology or law. That year, Resnik also had a cameo role in the Doug Liman film, Fair Game. In 2013, Resnik was given the Arabella Babb Mansfield Award, the highest honor presented by the National Association of Women Lawyers. In 2017, she was honored by former Liman fellows with the establishment of the Resnik-Curtis Fellowship in Public Interest Law.
Resnik’s books have been warmly received. For example, Representing Justice received awards for its exploration of the evolution of adjudication into its modern form. Through mapping the remarkable run of the political icon of Justice and tracking the development of public spaces — courthouses — dedicated to justice, Resnik and co-author Curtis analyzed how Renaissance “rites” of judgment turned into democratic “rights,” requiring governments to protect judicial independence and to provide open and public hearings. With more than 220 images, readers can see the longevity of aspirations for legitimate state-based adjudication and the expansion of government services and come to appreciate that, while venerable, courts are also vulnerable institutions that ought (like the post office and the press) not be taken for granted. In 2011, Representing Justice was selected by The Guardian as one of the year’s “best legal reads;” in 2012, it was chosen by the American Publishers Association as the recipient of two PROSE awards for excellence in social sciences and in law/legal studies, and by the American Society of Legal Writers for the 2012 SCRIBES award. In 2014, Representing Justice won the Order of the Coif award, presented every two years in recognition of a book’s outstanding contributions to legal scholarship. In 2022, with support of the Yale Law Library the book was reissued as an e-book and is also available in hard copy.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Associate U.S. Attorney General Addresses Equal Access at Liman Colloquium
Associate U.S. Attorney General Vanita Gupta discussed newly issued Department of Justice guidance that takes a critical view of the use of fines and fees in the criminal legal system.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Yale Law Professors, Via Open Letter, Support Work on Pardons and Paroles
CT Law Tribune
Several criminal law experts from Yale Law School wrote to stakeholders about Connecticut’s pause in commutations.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
New Website by Liman Center Shows Solitary Confinement’s Impact
Seeing Solitary, an online dashboard from the Liman Center, gathers resources and data for understanding the role solitary confinement plays in U.S. prisons.
Saturday, January 7, 2023
What Went Unsaid in the Chief Justice’s Report on the Judiciary — A Commentary by Judith Resnik and Nancy Gertner ’71
The New York Times
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Founding Director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law. Nancy Gertner, a retired Federal District Court Judge, is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School.
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.
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.
Friday, September 30, 2022
California Governor Vetoes Limits on Solitary Confinement
Al Jazeera
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik comments on the decline in the use of solitary confinement in prisons nationally. The story also cites a report co-authored by the Liman Center on the number of people in solitary confinement in the United States.
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Jurists Discuss Global Challenges
The annual Anderson Lecture on Sept. 14 discussed global challenges to constitutionalism.
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.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Nearly 50,000 People Held in Solitary Confinement in U.S., Report Says
The Guardian
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik comments on the declining use solitary confinement in a news story on a report by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
New Report Details Solitary Decline
The New Haven Independent
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik comments on the declining use solitary confinement in a news story on a report by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law and the use of solitary confinement in Connecticut.
Friday, June 24, 2022
Liman Center Marks 25 Years and Looks to the Future
The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law honored its 25th anniversary on April 7–9 at this year’s annual Liman Public Interest Colloquium with more than 300 people participating.
Monday, May 2, 2022
Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’79 in Conversation at Liman/LSO Colloquium
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’79 joined Yale Law School alumni from the Liman Center and the Law School’s clinical program in a conversation to open the 25th Annual Liman Public Interest Colloquium.
Monday, March 14, 2022
Arizona’s Privatized Prison Health Care Has Been Failing for Years. A New Court Case Could Change That
PBS News Hour
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted about Arizona’s privatized prison health care system.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
27 Years in Solitary Confinement, Then Another Plea for Help in Texas
The New York Times
A 2020 study co-authored by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law is cited in an article about solitary confinement.
Monday, February 14, 2022
Meet The 9th Circ.’s Newest Judge
Law360
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted about newly confirmed Ninth Circuit Judge Holly Thomas ’04.
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Liman Center Panel Discusses Deaths in Custody
A recent panel co-sponsored by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law looked at the causes of deaths behind bars and what can be done about them.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Attica at 50: Repression, Resistance, Resilience
The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law hosted a panel, “Then and Now: Fifty Years after Attica,” on the legacy of the prison uprising.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Library Exhibit Chronicles Responses to Attica Uprising
A new exhibit at the Lillian Goldman Law Library chronicles some of the responses to the Attica prison uprising of 1971, prompted by its 50th anniversary.
Monday, September 13, 2021
Justices Discuss Courts’ Authority in Challenging Times
United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Canada Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella were the speakers for the 2021 Anderson Lecture, “The Authority of the Courts and the Perils of Politics.”
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
YLS Liman Center Members Testify on Solitary Confinement in Pennsylvania
Yale Daily News
The Yale Daily News reported on testimony given by Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik before the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Policy Committee on the use of solitary confinement. Liman Center Director Jenny Carroll is quoted, and Liman Center clinical fellow Skylar Albertson ’18, Sarita Benesch ’23, and Wynne Graham ’22 are mentioned.
Friday, August 27, 2021
Liman Center Testifies on Proposed Solitary Confinement Legislation
Liman Center Founding Director Judith Resnik presented expert testimony on solitary confinement at a hearing of the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
Monday, July 12, 2021
Watchdog Group Calls for Supreme Court Reforms
The Hill
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is mentioned in a news story about a panel of former judges and legal scholars convened last year by the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan group calling for reforms to the Supreme Court.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
‘My Concern Is Precedent’: Mixed Responses to DOC Promise to End Solitary Confinement
Boston Globe
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik comments in a news report on a move by Massachusetts to end the use of solitary confinement. The report cites research by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Experts Debate Reducing the Supreme Court’s Power to Strike Down Laws
The New York Times
A news story on a hearing of President Biden’s commission on judicial branch reform includes that the commission is co-chaired by Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law Cristina Rodríguez ’00 and quotes testimony from Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence Samuel Moyn. Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik also testified.
Friday, May 28, 2021
Ending Profound Prison Isolation Protects Us All — A Commentary by Judith Resnik and Anna VanCleave
Connecticut Post
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School. Anna VanCleave is the Director of the Liman Center.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Yale Teach-In Series Reflects on the Path Forward After the Chauvin Verdict
A series of three teach-ins involving Law School faculty, staff, alumni, and affiliates presented an opportunity for the Yale community to reflect and come together in the wake of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Rep. Rosa DeLauro Opens 24th Liman Colloquium with Tutorial on Making Change
Rep. Rosa DeLauro gave Liman Fellows guidance on bringing about a fairer world when she launched the 24th Annual Liman Colloquium with a wide-ranging conversation on April 8, 2021.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Liman Center Research in Spotlight as States Advance Solitary Confinement Bans
Research by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School has informed recent decisions regarding solitary confinement in states across the country.
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Rep. Rosa DeLauro to Open 24th Liman Colloquium with Keynote
Rep. Rosa DeLauro will be the keynote speaker for the Liman Center for Public Interest Law’s 24th annual colloquium.
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Unlocking Courts: Ending Arbitration Mandates and Gag Orders — A Commentary by Judith Resnik
Connecticut Post
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Founding Director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Professor Resnik and Dwayne Betts ’16 to Present on Prisons at Conference of Law Schools
The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law’s Judith Resnik and Dwayne Betts ’16 will present at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools in a panel that combines imagery, music, documents, and data to convey the experience of prisoners.
Monday, December 21, 2020
The Liman Center Publishes its Annual Reports
The 2020 edition of The Liman Center Reports, the annual publication of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School, has been published in print and online.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Liman Center and Partners: Plan Needed for CT Prisoner Votes to Count
The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School has joined with several organizations to propose immediate and long-term solutions to protect the voting rights of prisoners in Connecticut.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The size of the Supreme Court is only part of the problem — A Commentary by Judith Resnik
CNN.com
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Founding Director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dead; Giant of the Supreme Court Was 87
Los Angeles Times
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Thursday, July 2, 2020
COVID-19 No Excuse for Ignoring Rights of the Incarcerated: Paper
The Crime Report
The Crime Report discusses a paper authored by Athur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik about how judges have – and should continue – to impact prisoners’ rights.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
As COVID-19 Spreads In Prisons, Lockdowns Spark Fear Of More Solitary Confinement
National Public Radio
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in a National Public Radio report on how measures against COVID-19 within prisons are leading to an increase in solitary confinement.
Monday, June 1, 2020
New study looks at the prison system's failure to address women's health and safety behind bars
ABA Journal
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik and Catherine Lhamon ’96 are quoted in an ABA Journal Magazine article about the health and safety of women in prison.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Liman Center Presses for Health and Safety in Prisons During Pandemic
Experts affiliated with the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law are aiding lawyers seeking to protect the health and safety of prisoners and staff by preventing the spread of COVID-19 in prisons.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Trump’s demands of postal service could undermine the presidential election
The Boston Globe
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Robert Taylor is former principal deputy general counsel at the Department of Defense.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Protecting Prisoners in Pandemics Is a Constitutional Must — A Commentary by Judith Resnik
Bloomberg Law
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Liman Center Cited in Federal Report on Women in Prison
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Issues Landmark Report on Women in Prison, Cites Testimony from Liman Center and Professor Judith Resnik
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Degrading strip search of 200 women prisoners cries out for courts to act — A Commentary by Judith Resnik
CNN Opinion
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Monday, September 23, 2019
Professors Koh, Resnik Sign Amicus Brief in Separation of Powers Case
Professors Harold Hongju Koh and Judith Resnik signed an amicus brief last week in federal court arguing that a congressional committee has Article III standing to enforce a subpoena against the executive branch.
Friday, June 21, 2019
Why a Radical Supreme Court Reform Is Catching On
GQ
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in a story about ideas for Supreme Court reform.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Solitary Confinement In The U.S.
NPR
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is interviewed about how solitary confinement is used in the United States.
Monday, June 17, 2019
Charles Reich, Who Saw ‘The Greening of America,’ Dies at 91
The New York Times
Former Professor Charles Reich ’52 has died. Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik and former Dean Guido Calabresi ’58 are quoted in this obituarty.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
How A 1925 Law Evolved To Become Crucial For Employers
Law360
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article about arbitration laws.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Criminal Justice Reform
WSHU
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik was on a panel discussing criminal justice reform from both a state and a national perspective.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Connecticut Bill Looks To Ban Solitary Confinement For All Inmates
WNPR
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in a story about a bill before the Connecticut state legislature that would eliminate the use of solitary confinement for all youth and adult inmates.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
What’s In A Judgeship? More Than Meets The Eye
Law360
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article about recommendations by the Judicial Conference of the United States on the number of judges needed nationwide.
Friday, February 22, 2019
Professor Resnik Speaks to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Women in Prison
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik was among the experts who spoke at a public briefing at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on February 22, 2019.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Report re-energizes push to end solitary confinement in state
NJTV
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik was interviewed by NJTV about the recent survey by the Arthur Liman Center and the Association of State Correctional Administrators on solitary confinement.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Solitary confinement is an affront to human decency
The Washington Post
Findings contained in a recent survey by the Arthur Liman Center and the Association of State Correctional Administrators are cited in The Washington Post.
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
More than 4,000 mentally ill inmates held in solitary in US — report
The Guardian
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in a Guardian article about a new report by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law and the Association of State Correctional Administrators on the number of mentally ill prisoners being held in solitary confinement. Sonia Sotomayor ’79 is also quoted. A similar article appeared in Fortune.com.
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
ASCA and Liman Center Release Two New Reports on Solitary Confinement
The Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) and the Liman Center at Yale Law School released two new reports on solitary confinement.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
This question changed the face of the Supreme Court—A Commentary by Judith Resnik
CNN
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Monday, July 16, 2018
Pioneering Judges Keep A Closer Eye On Class Action Deals
Law360
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article about judges who are tracking settlements in the wake of class action rulings.
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Professor Resnik Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by UCL
Professor Judith Resnik received an honorary doctorate of laws from UCL on July 3, 2018.
Friday, June 1, 2018
The Liman Center’s Colloquium 2018: Who Pays? Fines, Fees, Bail, and the Cost of Courts
The 2018 Liman Center Colloquium, Who Pays for Courts?, took up the many issues raised by court and litigant financing.
Friday, May 25, 2018
The Supreme Court’s Arbitration Ruling Undercuts The Court System—A Commentary by Judith Resnik
The Huffington Post
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Will Law Firms Bow to Pressure to End Mandatory Arbitration?
The American Lawyer
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article on the use of mandatory arbitration clauses at law firms.
Monday, May 21, 2018
Supreme Court Decision Delivers Blow To Workers' Rights
National Public Radio/ All Things Considered
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in a story about the decision by the Supreme Court regarding employee rights arbitration and how it could affect various class actions.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Carnegie Fellowship to Support Yale Law Professor's Prison Studies
Connecticut Law Tribune
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik and her Carnegie Fellowship are discussed in an article.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Professor Judith Resnik Awarded Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
On April 25, 2018, Professor Judith Resnik was selected as a member of the 2018 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows, awarded to support innovative scholarship on pressing contemporary issues.
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Panel Held on Opioid Crisis in Cherokee Nation
On February 22, 2018, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, the Yale Health Law and Policy Society, and the Yale Native American Law Student Association hosted a panel entitled “Litigating the Opioid Crisis: Tribal Sovereignty and American Pharmaceuticals.”
Monday, January 22, 2018
To Help #MeToo Stick, End Mandatory Arbitration—A Commentary by Judith Resnik
The Huffington Post
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Five federal judge vacancies in South Florida give Trump chance to shape bench
The Sun Sentinel
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article about the naming of federal judges in Florida.
Monday, October 2, 2017
As high court term begins, Trump reshapes federal judiciary from top to bottom
The Christian Science Monitor
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article about President Trump’s nominations of federal court judges.
Friday, August 11, 2017
Two Former Liman Fellows Return to YLS as Faculty Members
This fall, Yale Law School’s new cohort of faculty includes two members of the Liman community, Marisol Orihuela, a 2008–2009 Liman Fellow, and Monica Bell, a 2010–2011 Liman Fellow.
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Cory Booker And Elizabeth Warren Want To Treat Women In Prison Like Human Beings
HuffPost
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article on efforts to reform how the U.S. federal prison system treats women.
Friday, April 28, 2017
Prison Officials Resist Push to Curb Solitary Confinement
Wall Street Journal
A study by the Liman Center and the Association of State Correctional Administrators is mentioned in an article on how prison officials are resisting efforts to curb the use of solitary confinement. (Note: Subscription required to read publication.)
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Solitary by the Numbers
Frontline
A study by the Liman Center and the Association of State Correctional Administrators is cited in a feature article about solitary confinement.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
New Public Interest Fellowship Honors Professors Resnik and Curtis
A new fellowship honors Professors Judith Resnik and Dennis E. Curtis ’66 for their commitment to public interest law.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
New York's Solitary Confinement Overhaul Gets Pushback From Union
NPR/ Morning Edition
A study conducted by the Liman Program is mentioned in a story about pushback to New York State reforms in the use of solitary confinement.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Older Judges and Vacant Seats Give Trump Huge Power to Shape American Courts
The New York Times
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article about the potential for President Trump to shape the federal judiciary.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Here's Who Could Get Deported Under President Trump's New Executive Order
LawNewz
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik was interviewed about Donald Trump’s executive order regarding federal immigration law.
Monday, December 5, 2016
The Link Between Race and Solitary Confinement
The Atlantic
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article on the racial disparity among those in solitary confinement across the country.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Yale Report Tries To Count People Held In Solitary Confinement
WSHU
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik was interviewed about Aiming to Reduce Time-In-Cell, a report by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and The Liman Program about the effects of solitary confinement.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Who’s in Solitary Confinement?
The Marshall Project
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article on Aiming to Reduce Time-In-Cell, a report by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and The Liman Program about the use of solitary confinement. Similar coverage appeared in The Atlantic.
Sunday, November 6, 2016
‘Punishment has some form of boundaries:’ Yale Law Prof. Seeks to Reform Prisons
The Heights
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik gave a talk on the Newton Campus about prison reform.
Monday, August 22, 2016
Arbitration Cuts the Public Out and Limits Redress—A Commentary by Judith Resnik
National Law Journal
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Los Angeles County Restricts Solitary for Juveniles
The New York Times
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article about a Los Angeles County plan to restrict the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in detention there.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
What is solitary confinement?; From what it is to how much it costs, we answer key questions about the solitary confinement of prisoners
The Guardian
A report co-authored by the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program is cited in an article about solitary confinement.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
11 incredible women promoting social justice
Mashable
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik, Sonia Sotomayor ’79, and Katherine Kimpel ’06 are included in a list of women in law working toward social justice. Devon Porter ’15 is quoted.
Friday, January 29, 2016
How a routine traffic stop turned into six months in solitary confinement
The Washington Post
Time-In-Cell, a report by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and the Liman Public Interest Program, is cited in an article about solitary confinement.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Crackdown on solitary confinement begins, but a culture of secrecy remains
The Guardian
Time-In-Cell, a report by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and the Liman Public Interest Program, is cited in an article about solitary confinement.
Monday, January 25, 2016
Why we must rethink solitary confinement
The Washington Post
Time-In-Cell, a report by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and the Liman Public Interest Program, is cited in a commentary by President Obama about solitary confinement.
Friday, January 1, 2016
Chief Justice Embraces Information Access Limit
The New York Times
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article about new rules regarding civil litigation.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
More than a decade after release, they all come back
USA Today
Time-in-Cell, a report by the Association of Prison Administrators and The Liman Program, is referenced in an article about the effects of solitary confinement.
Monday, October 19, 2015
Connecticut Decreases Use Of Solitary Confinement In Prisons
The Hartford Courant
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik and Hope Metcalf, Executive Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights are quoted in an article about the use of solitary confinement in prisons.
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Court Conundrum: Offenders Who Can’t Pay, or Won’t
The New York Times
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted in an article about court fines.
Friday, September 4, 2015
CA Inmates Win Case Against Solitary Confinement
HuffPost Live
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik and Dwayne Betts ’16 were guests and discussed a recent legal victory by California prisoners opposed to solitary confinement.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
New Yale Survey Estimates Nearly 100,000 in Solitary Confinement in the U.S.
WNPR
Arthur Liman Professor of Law YLS professor Judith Resnik was interviewed and discussed the report on solitary confinement released by the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program and the Association of State Correctional Administrators.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Prison Directors Group Calls for Limiting Solitary Confinement
The New York Times
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted, and the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program is mentioned in an article about a report released by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and Liman Program that calls for limiting solitary confinement.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Large Number of Inmates in Solitary Poses Problem for Justice System, Study Says
The Wall Street Journal
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted, and the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program is mentioned in an article about a report released by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and Liman Program that calls for limiting solitary confinement.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Prison Officials Join Movement to Curb Solitary Confinement
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted, and the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program is mentioned in a New York Times article about a report released by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and Liman Program that calls for limiting solitary confinement.
Monday, August 3, 2015
With one decision, Obama and Lynch could reshape the criminal justice system—A Commentary by Robert Ferguson, Judith Resnik, and Margo Schlanger ’93
The Washington Post
Robert Ferguson is a law professor at Columbia University, Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and Margo Schlanger ’93 is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
No Fast Track for Unfair Trade Deals—A Commentary by Amy Kapczynski ’03 and Judith Resnik
The Huffington Post
Amy Kapczynski ’03 is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School and director of the Global Health Justice Partnership and Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Liman Program Submits a Statement to Task Force on Women in Detention
On March 2, 2015, the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School submitted a statement to the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Can Less Confidentiality Mean More Fairness in Campus Sexual Assault Cases?—A Commentary by Judith Resnik, Alexandra Brodsky ’16, and Claire Simonich ’16
The Nation
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School; Alexandra Brodsky ’16 and Claire Simonich ’16 are students at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Liman Program Submits Testimony to Senate Committee on Women in Detention
The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights on December 9, 2014. The statement submitted was titled “Women in Detention: The Need for a National Agenda.”
Friday, November 7, 2014
2014 Doctoral Scholarship Conference: Law and Responsibility on November 14–15
Yale Law School will host its 4th Doctoral Scholarship Conference on November 14 and 15, 2014.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Professor Resnik Selected as Visiting Scholar by Phi Beta Kappa Society
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has selected Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, as a 2014-2015 Visiting Scholar.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Professors Judith Resnik, Dennis Curtis ’66 to Receive 2014 Biennial Book Award from the Order of the Coif
Professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis ’66 have been selected as winners for the Order of the Coif Book Award for their work, Representing Justice.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Liman Program Publishes Research on Policies Governing Isolation in State and Federal Prisons
The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School has published research on policies that govern isolation in state and federal prisons.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Professor Judith Resnik to Receive Top Honor from National Association of Women Lawyers
Professor Judith Resnik will receive the Arabella Babb Mansfield Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers for her professional achievement and contribution to the advancement of women's interests under the law.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
YLS Students Collaborate with Corrections Directors to Examine Prison Visitation Policies Nationwide
Working with the Association of State Correctional Administrators, Yale Law students have produced a fifty state survey of prison visitation policies.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Professors Resnik and Curtis ’66 Receive 2012 Scribes Book Award for “Representing Justice”
Yale law professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis ’66 have been honored with the Scribes 2012 Book Award for “Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms.”
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
YLS Professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis Will Speak to Supreme Court Historical Society
Yale Law School professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis will present the annual lecture for the Supreme Court Historical Society on June 4.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Doug Liman Honors His Father with Film for 15th Anniversary of Liman Program
Movie producer Doug Liman honored his father, Arthur Liman, with a short film about his father’s career and commitment to public service at the fifteenth annual Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium March 1-2, 2012.
Friday, February 3, 2012
“Representing Justice” by Professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis ’66 Wins Two PROSE Awards, Named Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine
“Representing Justice,” by Yale Law professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis ’66, has won two PROSE awards and has been recognized as an outstanding academic title by Choice Magazine.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Professor Resnik and Justice Ginsburg Uphold Women’s Rights in Re-enactment of 19th Century Case
Yale Law Professor Judith Resnik and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took part in the re-enactment of a 19th century Supreme Court case at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2011 Judicial Conference.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Professor Judith Resnik Recipient of Awards for Teaching and Writing
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik has been named recipient of the 2010 Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Professor Judith Resnik Testifies about Access to Courts
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik testified on September 29 before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee about access to courts and the under utilization of the federal courts.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Professor Judith Resnik Named Outstanding Scholar By American Bar Foundation
Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is the 2008 recipient of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar Award.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Professors Circulate Statement Opposing Use of Military Tribunals
Yale Law School Professors Judith Resnik and Bruce Ackerman joined with their colleagues David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center, Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, University of Virginia School of Law, and Deena Hurwitz, University of Virginia School of Law, to circulate a statement that was signed by 450 law professors around the country urging the Supreme Court to grant review of Hamdan v.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Panel of YLS Professors to Discuss, "The Roberts Nomination: What's at Stake?" Sept. 14
On Wednesday, September 14, 2005, Yale Law School will host a discussion of the future of the U.S. Supreme Court, titled "The Roberts Nomination: What's at Stake?" The talk will start at 12:10 p.m. and run until 1:30 p.m. in Room 127.