Student Profiles: Arthur Liman Law Fellows

Shannon Cumberbatch, C'2008, and Danielle Snead and Shaunicie Fielder both C'2009, have been selected as the 2008 undergraduate summer fellows in the Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellowship Program. In conjunction with Yale Law School, this fellowship supports undergraduates who will pursue careers in public interest law.

The Spelman Liman fellows will join other fellows from Yale, Barnard, Princeton, Harvard and Brown in conducting public interest law projects this summer. Broadly defined, public interest law includes helping those often lacking resources to retain attorneys or to engage in advocacy work of a variety of kinds, to gain voice, and to participate in shaping public policy.

Undergraduate fellows have worked on issues such as children's rights, immigrant's rights, drug policy, civil legal services and the death penalty. The fellowship provides a $3,000 stipend and is named after Arthur Liman, Yale '57, who through his long and distinguished career, demonstrated how dedicated lawyers in both private practice and public life could serve the needs of people and causes that might otherwise go unrepresented.

Spelman College's Liman Undergraduate Summer Fellowship is facilitated by staff and faculty advisors Dennis Lindsay and Desiree Pedescleaux, Ph.D. It is funded by the generous support of Arthur Liman's son, filmmaker Doug Liman.

Learn more about the program:
http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/ArthurLimanPIFellowship&Fund.htm