Friday, June 2, 2023


Four people seated on a stage in an auditorium before an audience as another person on stage walks toward the podium. A screen above the seated panelists shows head-and-shoulders photos of six men on a black background

Panelists (from left) Bidish Sarma, Gaylord Salters, Miriam Gohara, and Alex Taubes in discussion on the panel “Mass Incarceration, Racial Injustice, and Opportunities for Relief.” Jennifer Taylor ’10, at podium, moderated.

Friday, May 26, 2023


Sue Wharfe accepts an award on behalf of her late husband Jay Pottenger

Sue Wharfe (second from right) accepts the Pincus Award alongside Norrinda Brown Hayat, co-chair of the AALS Clinical Section; Emma Pottenger, and Anita Sinha, co-chair of the AALS Clinical Section. Credit: James Greif

Thursday, April 27, 2023


Stacey Abrams and Goodwin Liu talk to a fellow alum at the Diversity Homecoming

Stacey Abrams ’99 (center) gave a keynote address at the first Diversity Homecoming.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023


Standing in front of a chalkboard, from left: Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Associate Justice, Washington Supreme Court; Anita Earls, Associate Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court; Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Vanita Gupta, Associate Attorney General of the United States; and Lisa Foster, former Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Access to Justice Office

At the 2023 Liman Colloquium, from left: Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Associate Justice, Washington Supreme Court; Anita Earls, Associate Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court; Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Vanita Gupta, Associate Attorney General of the United States; and Lisa Foster, former Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Access to Justice Office.

Tuesday, April 4, 2023


A black-and-white photo showing a row of closed doors, each with a narrow, vertical window. The words “SEEING SOLITARY: A PROJECT OF THE LIMAN CENTER AT YALE LAW SCHOOL” are overlaid in yellow

A page from Seeing Solitary, a website from the Liman Center that provides data on solitary confinement.

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One of the things that makes this job magic is the students. They’re unbelievably smart, the best lawyers you can imagine. But they care so deeply. And what always amazes me is they’re unfailingly modest about what they do.”


Heather Gerken

Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law