Prisoners' Rights Litigation: A Workshop for Advocates

Sponsored by the Prison Legal Services Clinic of the

Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization

March 4, 2010

9:00 am – 3:45 pm

The Presidents' Room, Woolsey Hall, Yale University (corner of Grove Street and College Street, New Haven)

This Workshop is held in connection with the Thirteen Annual Liman Colloquium, Imprisoned, which will run from 4:15 pm on Thursday, March 4 through Friday, March 5. Information about the Liman Colloquium is available at www.law.yale.edu/liman.

Advanced registration for the Workshop and Colloquium is required. Please register here.

Special support for this Workshop has been provided by Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

9:00 – 10:10 am	Incarceration and Gender: New Developments and Continuing Challenges
	Elizabeth Alexander, Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander Lisa Freeman, Staff Attorney, Prisoners’ Rights Project, Legal Aid Society Deborah LaBelle, Law Offices of Deborah LaBelle Dori Lewis, Senior Supervising Attorney, Prisoners’ Rights Project, Legal Aid Society Giovanna Shay, Assistant Professor of Law, Western New England College School of Law
10:20 – 10:35 am	Update on the California Overcrowding Litigation Ernest Galvan, Partner, Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP
10:35 – 11:45 am	Mental Health Claims: moving Past Traditional Models
	Betsy Ginsberg, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, NYU Law School Craig Haney, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz Jane E. Kahn, Of Counsel, Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP Sara Norman, Managing Attorney, Prison Law Office Margaret Winter, Associate Director, ACLU National Prison Project
12:00 – 1:00 pm	Non-Litigation Strategies for Reform
(lunch)	Barbara Fair, People Against Injustice, New Haven Jamie Fellner, Senior Counsel, U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch Hope Metcalf, Director, National Litigation Project, Yale Law School Paul Samuels, Director/President, Legal Action Center Paul Wright, Editor, Prison Legal News
1:10 – 2:10 pm	Suing on Behalf of Federal Prisoners: From Private Prisons to Terre Haute
	John Boston, Director, Prisoners’ Rights Project, Legal Aid Society of New York Deborah Golden, Staff Attorney, Washington Lawyers’ Committee Laura Rovner, Associate Professor, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver Sarah Russell, Clinical Lecturer in Law and Liman Director, Yale Law School David Shapiro, Liberty and National Security Project, Brennan Center for Justice
2:20 – 3:30 pm	Triaging and Financing Prison Cases
	Michael Bien, Managing Partner, Rosen, Bien & Galvan Brett Dignam, Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney, Yale Law School Howard Friedman, Law Offices of Howard Friedman, P.C. Antonio Ponvert, Partner, Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder LLP Alexander Reinert, Assistant Professor of Law, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law
3:30 - 3:40 pm	Update on ABA Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners
	Margaret Love, Law Offices of Margaret Love

Please register here.

M/CLE credit available for New York and California only

To help defray costs of the Workshop, we would greatly appreciate it if participants could contribute any amount (suggested donation is $100). Checks may be made payable to the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School, P.O. Box 209090, New Haven, CT 06520.

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