Ibrahim Diallo Named 2024-25 Curtis-Liman Fellow

Ibrahim Diallo has joined the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law as the 2024-25 Curtis-Liman Fellow. Prior to the fellowship, he clerked for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut. He worked for two years as a staff attorney practicing labor law with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA). 

Diallo graduated from Trinity College in 2011 with a B.A. in international relations and completed his J.D. at Columbia Law School in 2020, where he was named a Lowenstein Public Interest Fellow. While in law school, Diallo founded an externship program for law students to work with the NYTWA. Among other law school honors, he received the Constance Baker Motley Prize, the Samuel I. Rosenman Prize for Academic Excellence in Public Law, and the Emil Schlesinger Labor Law Prize. 

While a law student, Diallo also spent a summer working at the Office of the Federal Defender in New Haven. The Curtis-Liman Fellowship enables him to return to that office to build on the work of past Fellows Hannah Duncan and Elizabeth Clarke, while also engaging in research and teaching through the Liman Center. 

Established in 2020 to honor Professor Dennis Curtis, a co-founder of Yale Law School’s clinical program, the Curtis-Liman Clinical Fellowship focuses on alternatives to incarceration and the impact of fines, fees, and other costs associated with criminal law enforcement. The Fellowship is co-hosted by the Federal Defender Office of Connecticut, the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization (LSO), and the Liman Center. The Fellow helps supervise cases in collaboration with the LSO, co-teaches the Liman Workshop seminar, and works with a team of students enrolled in the Liman Center’s directed research class.