"Valuing Workers: Low-Wage Workers, Workfare, and Legal Strategies for Change" will be the theme of the second Arthur Liman Colloquium, which will be held
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 5, in the Presidents Room at Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets.

According to Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at the Law School, this year's program will focus on the law's relationship to low-wage workers -- especially migrant, workfare and domestic workers. Issues to be discussed include the problems faced by welfare recipients who are obliged to participate in the workforce but not always recognized as rights-holding workers; the classification of migrant workers as independent contractors; and the legal rights of domestic workers.

Attention will also be given to the racial and ethnic composition of various segments of the workforce, and the role gender plays in valuing different forms of labor.

The colloquium is part of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, established in 1996 to honor the late attorney, a 1957 graduate of Yale Law School, who was partner in the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In addition to his work at the firm, Liman had a distinguished and varied career as a public servant. He was chief counsel to the New York Special Commission on Attica after the 1971 riots; president of the Legal Aid Society of New York and of the Neighborhood Legal Services of Harlem; chair of the Legal Action Center in New York City; chair of the New York State Capital Defender's Office; and special counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, known also as the Iran-Contra Committee.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program also supports fellowships for Law School graduates to work full time for a year in any area of the legal profession devoted to the public interest. During the fellowship year, Liman Fellows spend time in residence at Yale Law School to conduct seminars based on their work. The 1998-99 fellows are Julia Greenfield '98 LAW, of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area; Lisa Daugaard '92 LAW, of the Seattle/King County Office of the Public Defender; and Douglas Stevick '96 LAW, of Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc.

The colloquium is cosponsored by the Yale Law School Career Development Office's Public Interest Program and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, the clinical legal education program at the Law School. Registration is limited. For information and registration, contact the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at 432-7740.

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