Sarah French Russell is an Associate Research Scholar in Law and Director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School. She joined Yale Law School in 2007 from the Federal Public Defender’s Office in New Haven where, as an Assistant Federal Defender, she represented indigent clients in federal court at the trial and appellate levels.  Ms. Russell clerked for Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey in the Southern District of New York and for Judge Chester J. Straub on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She earned her B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale College and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Her interests include the problems of access to justice, criminal procedure, sentencing, and gender and equality.

Education
J.D., Yale, 2002
B.A., Yale, 1998

Course Taught
Localism: Public Interest Lawyering